Make changes in the Excel Workbook that open my query - excel

I'm a TFS2010 User.
I have my own query named "My Current job" that show me the User Stories and related Task that I have to do right now.
I have opened the query in excel and made a conditional format to the workbook that show in green color the rows of completed work items.
Are there any way to make this conditional format (and other changes like this) permanent for this query?
I'm not the only one user of the teamproject, so I preffer don't change anything that could affect others users unless that is the only way.
Currently I've excel macros that do the job, but I wonder if it can be done directly in TFS .
Thanks.

This should be possible by using the "Team" ribbon on any Excel-document, simply click on any cell and then select "New List". Navigate to the query you 're interested in and harvest the results in your worksheet:Once you have established this link "Publish" will push your changes from Excel to TFS and "Refresh" will refresh your results from TFS

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