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When to Use Excel Instead of the Historian Excel Add-In

Use the Excel Add-In when you want to get data into Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 or 2010 (32-bit/64-bit). Use the Historian OLE DB provider with Excel, instead of the Excel Add-In, when you want to do any of the following:

Perform advanced filtering, sorting, and joining of data.
Obtain detailed information from the ihTrend table.
Run calculations using the SQL aggregate functions.
Perform advanced summaries.