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    Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog

  • A great deal for college students on Office 2008 for Mac

    Marshall Nam
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:11 pm
    While economists have declared the recession officially over in the U.S., we still live in challenging times, and it’s truer than ever that an education is the best first step to future success. At the MacBU, we’re committed to helping students achieve their goals, and still have enough money to pay for books, tuition and other realities of college life. With that in mind, we’re now offering a special deal on Office 2008 for Mac, exclusively for U.S. college and graduate students. Today, college students can save more than 70% off of the retail price on the Office 2008 for…

  • The Gift of Productivity

    AmandaL
    17 Nov 2009 | 3:11 pm
    It’s hard to believe that the holiday season is already upon us! But, what better way to kick off holiday shopping than with a great discount on Office for your Mac? I’m a Marketing Manager here at the MacBU and also a mom of toddlers. I can use all the help I can get to organize my life at the office and my life at home. From managing my calendar, the family shopping list, and life projects (whether they involve prepping a marketing plan presentation or managing my remodel budget) Office 2008 keeps me a little more productive. So here’s the deal...starting today (November…

  • The MacBU lands in Denver for EDUCAUSE

    Marshall Nam
    4 Nov 2009 | 8:11 am
    More than 4,000 educators, students, and IT professionals in higher education from around the world are descending on the Mile-High City for this year’s EDUCAUSE conference from Nov. 3rd through the 6th. This year, I am on hand for the MacBU, along with one of our Microsoft Student Partners to showcase the latest and best features of Office 2008 for Mac, including: -   All-new SharePoint and Office Live Workspace support with Document Connection for the Mac. -   The newly re-architected Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition, providing robust Exchange connectivity, syncing tasks,…

  • Office 2004 Mainstream Support Has Been Extended

    Mike Tedesco
    12 Oct 2009 | 9:10 am
    A few months ago we received questions about the scheduled Mainstream Support retirement date for Office 2004 for Mac.  While most customers have upgraded to Office 2008 for Mac, some have remained on Office 2004 in order to take advantage of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which is supported in Office 2004, but did not make it into Office 2008.  Today I am happy to share that we have extended the Mainstream Support date for Office 2004, originally scheduled to end October 13, 2009, through January 10, 2012.   The date has been extended to 2012 specifically to ensure…

  • Office Web Apps and the Mac user

    Kurt Schmucker
    6 Oct 2009 | 1:10 pm
    Today, Microsoft is holding an “Open House” for media in New York and one of the things that will be showcased is the Technical Preview of the Office Web Apps. Right now, the Technical Preview of the Office Web Apps is available to a limited number of invitation-only participants. The Office Web Apps will go into broad public beta later this year and will launch in 2010. MacBU has been working closely with the Office for Windows and the Windows Live teams to make sure that this exciting new capability is available to Mac users, so today seemed like a logical time to discuss how…
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    Erika Ehrli

  • Getting Started with Office 2010 Development

    erikaehrli
    18 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    It’s been an exciting week with all the recent announcements at PDC. Today, at PDC we announced the availability of our public Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Betas. Lots of developers from the community who have been monitoring the new developer investments on Office 2010 can start creating solutions with the latest features. You can find links to all our downloads here: Download the 2010 Betas Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access, Publisher, InfoPath, Communicator, SharePoint Workspace, and Office Web Apps. Project 2010 Beta Project Server…

  • Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 for Developers + New Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Centers

    erikaehrli
    19 Oct 2009 | 2:22 pm
    It’s always hard to stay away from blogging when there’s so many new things to share and talk about. Today at the SharePoint Developer Conference Keynote, Jeff Teper talked about SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 features for developers and IT professionals. This is the time to start to blog more about the new release of Office and SharePoint and I am glad that we can all talk now!!!! The SharePoint team blog has a good summary of key announcements made today at the conference, so in case you missed the keynote, go check out this blog. Here’s a few more cool surprises from the MSDN Office…

  • MSDN Redesign: Office, SharePoint, and VSTO sites are live!

    erikaehrli
    16 Oct 2009 | 11:39 pm
    I know it’s late at night, but I couldn’t resist. The MSDN Office, SharePoint, and VSTO Developer Center are blue now and match the super cool new MSDN branding and experience. Go take a look and enjoy: Office Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/default.aspx SharePoint Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default.aspx Office Development with Visual Studio Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsto/default.aspx More sites here: http://blogs.msdn.com/lisa/archive/2009/10/17/msdn-com-refresh.aspx Office and SharePoint devs - See you in…

  • Getting Ready for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 + MSDN Redesign + New MSDN Open XML Developer Portal

    erikaehrli
    1 Oct 2009 | 6:36 pm
    It’s been a while since I had an opportunity to blog. When I am quiet it usually means I am up to something :). Getting Ready for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 This are exciting times for Office and SharePoint developers. While we have released some interesting news about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 already, there’s a lot more coming for the SharePoint Developer Conference and Beta 2. We currently have more than 100 items in the publishing queue to be released between the SP Conference and after Beta 2, plus some great improvements and new pages being built for MSDN Office and MSDN…

  • Open XML SDK 2.0 August CTP, Videos, and 50+ Open XML Code Samples

    erikaehrli
    28 Aug 2009 | 2:28 pm
    Zeyad Rajabi announced this week the availability of the new Open XML SDK 2.0 August CTP. As mentioned by Zeyad, changes to this CTP include: Add semantic level validation support Add markup compatibility/extensibility support General improvements based on your feedback If you are into Open XML Development, you will also be interested in a few more videos and code samples. Open XML SDK 2.0 Visual How-to Series We have released some videos, walkthroughs, and code sample downloads in the last couple weeks: Visual How To: Creating a PowerPoint 2007 Presentation from a Folder of Images by Using…
 
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    Inside Office Online

  • Office OFFline comic pick of the week for 11/20/09

    OfficeOnline
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
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  • Facebook: What Office program are you?

    OfficeOnline
    19 Nov 2009 | 11:29 am
    For yesterday’s release of the Office 2010 Beta (download a free suite here ), our marketing pals have come up with this Facebook app that analyses what kind of app you—and your friends—are. Me? I’m OneNote. Which is good. I like that fit. What are you?...(read more)

  • Top Templates: Grocery Shopping List

    OfficeOnline
    19 Nov 2009 | 7:33 am
    This should come in handy, a Grocery Shopping List , by meals, for Excel 2007 submitted by Devin Rupert . You can download this template now , or get more free templates or free clip art & photos from Office.com. Have you created a great template?...(read more)

  • Demystifying a few computer terms

    OfficeOnline
    19 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    It's come to my attention that some of you (who shall remain nameless thanks to my own sense of restraint and corporate responsibility) have been left behind in the world of computing. Let's just assume — for the time it takes to read this post — that...(read more)

  • Office 2010 Beta is here

    OfficeOnline
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:41 am
    Well, what does that mean? 1) Anyone can download and work with the latest versions of Office 2010 for free in this testing phase. Go to http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/ to download them. 2) Lots of cool things will pop-up and you can monitor and...(read more)
 
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    Topix: Microsoft Office

  • Marketing & Sales Products

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:31 pm
    Orange County, California USA version / 2009 eEdition Great reference tool for business development, marketing, outreach, sales, meeting/event registration drives, job recruitment *** listings sent direct to your email address within 24 hrs ! Price: $349.00 Over 500 medical product companies based in Orange County, California are featured Executive ...

  • Intuit Provides Help to Microsoft Accounting Customers

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:11 am
    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Intuit Inc. is extending a helping hand to small businesses affected by the discontinuation of Microsoft Office Accounting, which will no longer be distributed after today.

  • Thankful for these "Hot Job" Openings

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:52 am
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  • Majority of Recession-Bred Entrepreneurs - 70 Percent - Left...

    19 Nov 2009 | 11:18 pm
    According to a recent survey conducted by Microsoft Corp., the majority of entrepreneurs who started their business during the recession were employed.

  • Using server-side integration between CRM2007 & Outlook2007

    19 Nov 2009 | 6:50 pm
    The Client based Groupware Integration package was introduced in CRM 2006s2/2007 with very positive feedback from the customer base as now it is possible to allow the users much more control over what is going on between their groupware system and the SAP CRM system.
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    Google News: Microsoft Office

  • Microsoft Office 2010 Public Beta is worthy upgrade - Examiner.com

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:23 pm
    Examiner.comMicrosoft Office 2010 Public Beta is worthy upgradeExaminer.comImage source: AP We have just spent over an hour with the just-released version of Microsoft Office 2010. We have noticed some great improvements,

  • Google Chrome OS: A Simple FAQ - PC World

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:45 pm
    Globe and MailGoogle Chrome OS: A Simple FAQPC WorldEven Microsoft's Office Live will run on a Chrome OS computer -- in fact, it's the software's default program for opening files such as Excel documents. 4 Big Gambles Google Is Taking With Chrome OSGigaOm (blog)Google OS Presentation Raises More Questions than AnswersBNETGoogle Chrome OS - the morning after still has people not get itThe InquisitrIT PRO -Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog (blog) -TFTS (blog)all 1,038 news articles »

  • 5 Interesting Things About Microsoft's Office Mobile 2010 - Microsoft Watch

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:22 pm
    PC World5 Interesting Things About Microsoft's Office Mobile 2010Microsoft WatchBack in August, Microsoft and Nokia announced a partnership that would see Microsoft Office applications ported onto Nokia smartphones, starting with the All About MicrosoftZDNetMicrosoft Office: 106 Tips & TricksPC MagazineDeal of the Day: Free Microsoft Office 2010 ProfessionalWPTVVentureBeat -NotebookReview.com -Newserall 318 news articles »

  • SoftMaker Office 2010 Beta - BetaNews

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:10 pm
    SoftMaker Office 2010 BetaBetaNewsIf loss of files has you worried about this wonderful product then don't be worried as SoftMaker Office has full compatibility for Microsoft Office formats

  • Microsoft announces commercial availability of Online Services - Express Computer

    19 Nov 2009 | 8:48 pm
    Microsoft announces commercial availability of Online ServicesExpress Computer Live Meeting (for conferencing), Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services and Microsoft Office Communications Online (for instant messaging and presence). Majority of Recession-Bred Entrepreneurs - 70 Percent - Left Full-Time PR Newswire (press release)all 34 news articles »
 
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    The Microsoft Office Word Team

  • Word 2010 Beta is Available

    wrdblog
    18 Nov 2009 | 3:54 pm
    We are thrilled to announce the release of the public Beta of Microsoft Word 2010! Betas for Office 2010, as well as SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 are available for you to download at www.microsoft.com/2010. We've talked in a bit of detail about the goodness of Word 2010 in these posts, and our friends in marketing put together a handy top 10 list here. In addition to these new features and experiences you'll find a lot of fit and finish, performance, and stability improvements since our technical preview. If this is the first time you'll experience Word 2010, we highly…

  • Introducing Word Automation Services

    wrdblog
    26 Oct 2009 | 4:30 am
    Over the last couple of months, we've posted about many of the exciting new features of Word 2010 – Co-authoring, the new Find experience, and the Word Web App. This week, at SharePoint Conference 2009, we announced one more (and one that I'm especially excited about): Word Automation Services. In the post on framing the Word 2010 release, one of the pillars described is "Word Power in New Contexts". Word Automation Services is a big part of that pillar, and represents our desire to ensure that the power and functionality of Word is available beyond the desktop; in this case, by enabling…

  • Office Web Apps Coming to Windows Live

    wrdblog
    17 Sep 2009 | 4:36 pm
    Today is a great day for the Office 2010 team!.  As Nick Simons posts on the Office Web Apps blog: We are making available Excel, Word and PowerPoint Web Apps for a select group of Windows Live users as part of the Office Web Apps Technical Preview. While the initial functionality is modest it will expand over time. As we get closer to the release of Office 2010 we will make the Office Web Apps available to more Windows Live users. This early peek at the Office Web Apps will include high-fidelity viewing of Word, Excel and PowerPoint files in the browser. Invitees will also be able to…

  • Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010

    wrdblog
    9 Sep 2009 | 4:00 pm
    When we first started blogging about Word 2007, we talked a lot about 21st Century Documents. Our vision was that Word 2007 would allow authors to easily create much richer documents (Quick Styles, Themes, SmartArt, Picture Styles, Building Blocks, etc.). In Word 2010, our cutting-edge authoring pillar builds on the 21st Century Documents vision in that 21st Century Documents often have multiple authors. To accommodate this, we're working to make co-authoring as natural as solo-authoring. Here's how… Co-authoring 21st Century Documents At the end of my last post, the question of the day…

  • Co-authoring – Where We are Coming From

    wrdblog
    24 Aug 2009 | 11:06 am
    A big part of Word 2010 is enabling what we call cutting-edge authoring Cutting-edge authoring is all about making deep enhancements in the core document creation experience in Word, given the types of documents people are creating today (i.e., a lot more than just plain text) and the way people are creating documents today (i.e., authoring with more than one person). In this post, I'll focus on cutting-edge collaborative authoring, give a brief history of the types of collaborative authoring investments we've made in the past, and touch on some recent authoring trends that influenced our…
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  • Reparar Outlook 2007

    Marc Rivero López
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:01 pm
    Sin duda, quien lo tenga todo en webmail no se ha de preocupar, pero la gente ( como yo ) que utilizamos un gestor de correo, para almacenar todas nuestras cuentas de correo, contactos, calendarios y RSS, si se nos estropea o tenemos algún problema, lo pasaremos mal. Outlook trae una herramienta para la reparación de archivos.pst. La herramienta se llama SCANPST.EXE y la podemos encontrar aquí: C:\Archivos de programa\Microsoft Office\Office12 La ejecutamos Ahora elegimos el archivo PST. Ahora le damos a Iniciar para hacer la comprobación de errores. Después de pasar las 8 fases nos…

  • Pack étudiant 2010 + Microsoft Office

    bloggerjeux
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:40 am
    EBP Pack Etudiant 2010 + Office Professionel Plus 2007 Une offre exceptionnelle comprenant les 5 logiciels EBP Pack Etudiant 2010 et la suite Microsoft Office Professionnel Plus 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, InfoPath). EBP Pack Etudiant 2010 propose 5 logiciels pour apprendre à gérer l’ensemble de l’activité de l’entreprise. Elaboration du Business Plan, réalisation des devis et factures, tenue de la comptabilité et gestion des salaires. • Inclus le PGI Reconnu d’Intérêt Pédagogique par le Ministère de l’Education Nationale • Gestion de…

  • Office 2010 Beta a "scapat" pe torente

    gabrielwebdes
    19 Nov 2009 | 7:00 pm
    Microsoft au lansat pe 17 noiembrie versiunea in limba engleza a Microsoft Office 2010 beta (build 14.0.4536.1000) in 32-bit (684.48MB) si 64-bit (749.87MB) pentru membrii MSDN si TechNet. Versiunea in limba engleza a Office Web Applications 2010 Beta (64-bit only) au fost postate pe MSDN si TechNet. Microsoft a descris versiunea de Office 2010: “Office 2010 provides enhancements for developers such as expanded platform services, increased tools productivity, and reduced time to solution delivery.” – specifica http://thenextweb.com Varianta beta oficiala a Microsoft Office…

  • How to Design on Linux

    renaldodesign
    19 Nov 2009 | 3:03 pm
    Article by: Renaldo Creative Site: http://raindropgraphx.com   Linux is an amazing operation system. But most people think the design career is over, when they switch to Linux. Most designer use Corel and Adobe software. Below you will find good Alternative for Linux. 01. Photoshop | Gimp 02. Illustrator | Inkscape 03. InDesign Scribus 04. Dreamweaver | NVU 05. Internet Explorer | Firefox 06. Microsoft Office | Open Office 07. Quick Book | GNU Cash 08. Winrar | Pea Zip 09. Win Zip | 7 Zip 10. Flash | Flash4Linux Note a lot of Windows programs…

  • Gagal install office 2007 atau 2010???

    adika
    19 Nov 2009 | 1:54 pm
    Setelah windows selesai install, setelah selesai saya install aplikasi2 lain seperti antivirus, dll. Nah masalah mulai muncul ketika saya mencoba menginstall MS Office 2007. Masalahnya yakni begitu saya install office 2007-nya, beberapa saat install jalan tetapi belom ada sepersepuluhnya install berhenti dan muncul pesan error yg menyatakan bahwa windows tidak bisa mengupdate file sistemnya. Kemudian saya mencoba mencari solusinya di mbah Google. Di sana saya menemukan bahwa ada sebuah file yg harus dimasukkan ke C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\40\bin…
 
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    Microsoft Excel

  • Excel Services in SharePoint 2010 Feature Support

    Joseph Chirilov
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    Excel Services does a good job of rendering Excel spreadsheets with a high degree of fidelity.  In other words, what you see in Excel is what you will see in Excel Services.  Excel, however, is incredibly feature rich, comprising features added over decades of development.  By comparison, Excel Services is a young product, so naturally Excel Services doesn’t yet support all the things you might create in Excel.  So what does Excel Services in SharePoint 2010 support?  And how does Excel Services deal with files that contain features it doesn’t support?  That…

  • Deploying Office Web Apps in the Enterprise

    Joseph Chirilov
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:58 am
    Following on the heels of the Office 2010 beta availability announcement, the Office Web Apps blog has a new post discussing deploying office web apps in the enterprise.  Have a read if you're looking to test drive the beta version of Office Web Apps.

  • Announcing Office 2010 and PowerPivot Beta Availability

    Joseph Chirilov
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:22 am
    From the Office 2010 Engineering blog: Today is an exciting day! At PDC we announced the availability of the public betas of Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010 and Office Web Apps for business customers. If you’d like to be one of the millions of people who try, test and give feedback on the latest and greatest, you can download the betas at www.microsoft.com/2010. We also announced that Microsoft Office Mobile 2010 beta is available now too, and you can download it through the Windows Mobile Marketplace for Windows Mobile 6.5 phones. The final release…

  • Easily manage defined names in Microsoft Excel

    FredK
    17 Nov 2009 | 3:35 pm
    Today’s author is Jan Karel Pieterse, an Excel MVP. You can find more useful tips from Jan Karel on his website: http://www.jkp-ads.com/. This post informs you about Name Manager, a free utility that helps you manage defined names in your workbooks. If you need a free utility to manage defined names in your workbooks, this one is a must-have. List all names in your active workbook. Filter them using 13 filters including "With external references," "With errors," "Hidden," and "Visible." Show only names that contain a substring. Show only names unused…

  • Excel Services in SharePoint 2010 Administration Improvements

    Joseph Chirilov
    16 Nov 2009 | 9:37 pm
    Thanks to John Campbell for putting together this post. Ongoing management is key to any successful server product’s deployment. It can be challenging to figure out the right initial combination of settings, and to know how to further change those settings when problems arise. With that in mind, I have put this blog article together to go into what’s new in the Excel Services administration space. First Things First: SharePoint Administration and Service Applications Excel Services is a “Service Application” in SharePoint. Service Applications are the replacement for what used to be…
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    Microsoft Office Outlook Team

  • Developing a provider for the Outlook Social Connector

    outblog
    19 Nov 2009 | 2:49 pm
    I’m happy to announce that a new member has joined the Outlook platform family. The new arrival has a long and formal name known as Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider Extensibility, but the name shouldn’t stop you from getting acquainted with this exciting new extensibility feature for Outlook 2010! What is an Outlook Social Connector (OSC) provider? The Microsoft Outlook Social Connector is an add-in that surfaces social network data including friends, profiles, activities, and status information from social networks in Microsoft Outlook. The user interface of the OSC is shown…

  • Announcing the Outlook Social Connector

    outblog
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:33 am
    We are excited to announce the Outlook Social Connector! The Outlook Social Connector is a set of new features to help keep track of your friends and colleagues while enabling you to grow your professional network. The Outlook Social Connector is available now as part of the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta. The Outlook Social Connector (OSC) brings social views of your colleagues and friends right to your Inbox. As you read your e-mail messages, glance down at the new People Pane to see the picture, name, and title of the sender. A rich, aggregated collection of information about the sender is…

  • Announcing Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

    outblog
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:23 am
    Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of the public Beta of Microsoft Office 2010! Betas for Office 2010, as well as SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 are available for download at www.microsoft.com/2010. This is an exciting and significant milestone for both the Office and Outlook teams, because it means that for the first time, anyone can download Office 2010! You can learn more about the complete release of the Office 2010 beta on our Office blog. The Outlook team is particularly excited for a number of reasons – the beta release represents the latest and best…

  • Best Practices for Outlook 2007

    outblog
    11 Nov 2009 | 6:51 pm
    On the Outlook team, we are frequently asked: “what is the ‘right way’ to use Outlook?” Sure enough, there is no “right way” to work in Outlook—but, as the product team, we did design it with certain best practices in mind. Specifically, there are some best practices that make you more efficient at getting your job done while using Outlook, including: how to set up Outlook (layout, rules, folders, etc.), how to best process e-mail messages to “tame your Inbox” the importance of doing a daily review of your calendar and tasks how best to get work done in Outlook doing…

  • Exchange 2010

    outblog
    10 Nov 2009 | 5:38 pm
    On behalf of the entire Outlook team, I’m pleased to congratulate the Exchange Server team on the global availability of Exchange 2010!  The Exchange team has done a tremendous job designing, developing, and refining their latest release to be the most high quality, efficient and innovative release of Exchange Server to date. In the near future, you will be hearing more from us as Microsoft Office 2010 reaches its public Beta, but for now, please take a minute to learn more about the exciting improvements and advances the Exchange team has made with this release. Exchange Server will…
 
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    The PowerPoint Team Blog

  • Announcing PowerPoint 2010 Beta Availability

    pptteam
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:32 am
    Today, we are announcing the availability of the PowerPoint 2010 Beta.  It is a public download that anyone can try for free. What can you do with PowerPoint 2010? Collaborate more effectively with Co-Authoring Bring your ideas to life withVideo EditingTransitions & Animations, Picture Editing, and SmartArt Author your presentations in less time using the new Animation Painter, Animation Ribbon, Transition Ribbon, and Smart Guides Reach your audience with Broadcast Slide Show Work anywhere with the PowerPoint Web Application Organize your presentations more effectively with Sections…

  • Presentations: Where to Start?

    pptteam
    17 Nov 2009 | 5:56 pm
    Your task: create a presentation. There are lots of ways to approach this depending on what you’re trying to convey to your audience, and there are many things to consider: the message, content, flow, slide design, aesthetics, and a variety of other factors involved in storytelling. Sometimes it’s helpful to start with a template. This way, you can set aside certain aspects of the design such as layout and visual effects so that you can focus your efforts elsewhere. The folks who run Office Online have provided everyone with a collection of slides, designed by PowerPoint MVP Julie…

  • PowerPoint on the Web: Editing

    pptteam
    11 Nov 2009 | 11:10 am
    Now that you’ve learned about PowerPoint Web App’s Reading View – designed for quickly reading presentations that have been published on the web -- we’d like to introduce you to Edit View. Edit View is, unsurprisingly, the place where you go to make changes to your presentation on the web. To begin with, we designed this view to parallel our desktop app’s Normal View. On the web, you’ll find the familiar ribbon, thumbnail pane, and notes pane. Take a look at the desktop app and the web app side-by-side: PowerPoint 2010 Normal View PowerPoint 2010 Web App Edit View Fast, Simple and…

  • Free PowerPoint Design Intervention

    RicB
    2 Nov 2009 | 10:27 am
    What’s the next best thing to getting someone to critique your PowerPoint presentation for design and effectiveness for free?  Well, watching someone else get that advice may come in as a fairly close second. This video will re-introduce you to Julie Terberg of Terberg Design.  Regular PowerPoint Team Blog readers will recall Julie’s work from last year’s post: A Picture + 1000 Words… where we spotlighted the amazing and beautiful sample shape and animations she created for you to download. A talented and sought-after design consultant, Julie worked with Microsoft again to…

  • Office Web Apps preview expanding

    pptteam
    20 Oct 2009 | 4:27 pm
    As Nick just posted on the Office Web Apps blog, we’re expanding access to the technical preview! For a limited time, you can sign-up for a Technical Preview account here: http://skydrive.live.com/acceptpreview.aspx/.documents?aobrp=browse. Note: if you’re already in the technical preview, or you’re not in the US or Japan, you’ll get an error message, if you click the link. So click away, and check out our previous blog posts on the PowerPoint Web app: Overview of the PowerPoint Web App Viewing presentations on the web  Sean
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    Templates blog

  • Template du Jour: Employment Application

    templateers
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:33 am
    If you are hiring, here’s a handy Employment Application template for Word 2007 submitted by Austin Clark. You can download this template now, or get more free templates or free clip art & photos from Office.com. Have you created a great template? Share it here. You never know when we might feature yours!

  • Top Templates: Grocery Shopping List

    templateers
    19 Nov 2009 | 6:45 am
    This should come in handy, a Grocery Shopping List, by meals, for Excel 2007 submitted by Devin Rupert. You can download this template now, or get more free templates or free clip art & photos from Office.com. Have you created a great template? Share it here. You never know when we might feature yours!

  • Template du Jour: Seed packet

    templateers
    18 Nov 2009 | 6:05 am
    Today's template is a seed packet design from Pagemaster1 for Word 2007. Use this cleverly designed packet to personalize your seeds and share with friends, or just store for yourself. You can download this template now, or get more free templates or free clip art & photos from Office.com. Have you created your own templates? Submit them here. You never know when we might feature yours!

  • Template du Jour: Thanksgiving Invitation

    templateers
    17 Nov 2009 | 6:30 am
    Today's template is a PowerPoint 2007 Thanksgiving invitation, created by Templates by Lory . You can download this template now, or get more free templates or free clip art & photos from Office.com. Have you created your own templates? Submit them here. You never know when we might feature yours!

  • Template du Jour: Football Scorecard

    templateers
    16 Nov 2009 | 6:57 am
    Today's template is a Football Official’s Scorecard  for Word 2007, created by SC Football Official, which prints both front and back on a 4 X 6 card and fits in a back pocket. You can download this template now, or get more free templates or free clip art & photos from Office.com. Have you created your own templates? Submit them here. You never know when we might feature yours!
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    Access Team Blog

  • Access Services overview and install information

    Clint Covington
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:22 am
    Recently on The Access Show Ryan and I introduced Access Services and created a donations application that ran in the browser. I thought it would be helpful to provide some background to the vision and direction. Years ago I came across a post on UtterAccess that articulately described what we hope to accomplish with Access 2010. Stormin on UtterAccess says he is: … looking for clues to how I could create an Access application that would run from within an Access database, as well as from the web (from a single point of maintenance, of course!). Reading between the lines a little—Stormin…

  • Download Access 2010 Public Beta today

    Clint Covington
    18 Nov 2009 | 2:03 pm
    Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of the public beta of Access 2010, Access 2010 Runtime, and SharePoint 2010. You can download Office and SharePoint at www.microsoft.com/2010. My July post Access 2010--The 10,000 ft. View outlined the following advancements: Get started faster Better design and customization tools Centralized business logic Landing pad for data SharePoint performance and offline Browser apps Last month Ryan and I gave the first public demo on Channel 9. If you haven’t see it—definitely interesting for Access users. See the 2010 Intro Series and Top 10…

  • Access 2010 Create ribbon

    Clint Covington
    17 Nov 2009 | 9:31 pm
    Web databases introduced a few ribbon design challenges, particularly how to present client and web create options? We wanted to make sure that people creating client objects are just as successful as web objects. When you create a new database from scratch, you have two options: either to open a blank database or a blank Web database. Creating a new blank Web database opens a new database that allows you to create both Web and Client objects. Client objects have the full designers and ability to include VBA whereas the Web object designers enable you to build tables, queries, forms, reports…

  • Add color formatting to columns in Combo Boxes and List Boxes

    cdowns
    17 Nov 2009 | 10:18 am
    Today's guest blogger is Pavlo Pedan of ARGO Business Corp. He has 15 years of experience with Access and has a great site of tips  at http://sites.google.com/site/msaccesscode/ As we all know, a List Box control has a Fore Color property. It sets the fore color for column values and headers simultaneously. Also, we know that table and query fields have a Format property, where color formatting can be set. For example, you can format a number field as 0.00[Green]. As stated in Access 97, 2003 and 2007 help, "If you set a field's Format property in table Design view, Microsoft Access…

  • Build navigation UI with Access 2010

    Clint Covington
    14 Nov 2009 | 8:08 am
    Today’s guest writer is Wouter Steenbergen, a PM on the Access team responsible for Access form and report designers. If you want to build an easy to use application it always starts with a good navigation model that allows users to quickly perform the most common tasks and easily find the less common tasks. Years ago, Access introduced the concept of a switchboard manager which has become a mainstay for many applications in the late 90’s. The hierarchical model and ease of adding new objects into the interface served our community well for many years. However, advancements in web design…
 
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    Microsoft Office Project 2007

  • Calling all Admins – There’s a New Blog for You

    Heather O'Cull
    19 Nov 2009 | 3:06 pm
    Announcing the Admin Blog!  Coinciding with the release of Public Beta, we are aggregating all Project Administrator / Implementer content into a TechNet blog located at  http://blogs.technet.com/projectadministration The content of this blog will cover setup, upgrade, performance, backup/restore and planning topics for Project Server 2010/Project Client 2010.  We will also have Project Server 2007/Project Client 2007 and Project Portfolio Server 2007 related topics as needed.  We will also use this blog to announce patches, administration best practices and temporary…

  • Now Available – Project 2010 Beta!!!

    Heather O'Cull
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:09 am
    You’ve heard the buzz, seen the posts, now check it out for yourself – the Project 2010 Beta is now available!!! To download: Click here for Project. You can download the other Office applications from here To send feedback: Use Send-a-Smile. When you install Project 2010, you’ll notice that a smiley face and frown now appear in your taskbar. You can use these to send feedback on your experience with Project. To help us out make sure to use the word “Project” in the comments section and include your email address so we can follow up with you if we have any questions. To get help:…

  • Tips and Tricks: Contour your work

    Toney Sisk
    13 Nov 2009 | 4:17 pm
    A typical work week is rarely typical. Yet, you can plan for this with a Project 2007 feature called “work contours.” If you discover that there is a consistent work pattern in your organization where people are assigned to work more hours at the beginning of a task than at the end, you can have Project account for this using assignment contours. Or, perhaps a task requires more work in the middle of it than at the beginning to account for ramp-up time. No problem. After assigning a person to a task, switch to the Task Usage view from the Tools menu. The tricky part is double-clicking the…

  • Project 2010: Introducing Demand Management

    Heather O'Cull
    13 Nov 2009 | 1:50 pm
    Demand Management is about capturing all work proposals in one single place, taking these proposals through a multi-stage governance process, making decisions on which proposals to approve and tracking progress on their execution until the work is completed. A key component within Demand Management is the Workflow governance model we have now implemented within Microsoft Project Server 2010. The "Proposals" feature in Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 helps capture demand in one place, but is not flexible enough and does not have a full-fledged governance workflow behind it. The…

  • Project 2010: Introducing Portfolio Analysis

    Heather O'Cull
    10 Nov 2009 | 5:02 pm
    In Project Server 2010, a rich set of new Portfolio Strategy features are now available in the core Project Server product serving to more closely unify project and portfolio management. Those familiar with Portfolio Server 2007 will recognize many of these features, but will appreciate the enhancements made possible by rebuilding them on the Project Server platform. Highlights include: · UI is now SharePoint-based, making these features easier to use and provides visual consistency with the rest of the app · A gateway linking the Portfolio Server product is no longer required, everything…
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    Clip Art and Media

  • Get some Zen this holiday

    camblog
    10 Nov 2009 | 3:59 pm
    Here are some ways to keep your peace of mind this holiday: Set up an e-mail reminder to stretch during the day. Add one of our yoga images to the Outlook appointment for inspiration. Start a journal with some beautiful journal page templates for Word. Better to vent your frustrations on the page than to your spouse, kids, or co-workers (although maybe a little less satisfying). Walk, jog, take an exercise class…just get moving. Plan it out and write it down in this Exercise planner template. Make shopping easier with a holiday budget planner, grocery list template, and gift shopping list…

  • Need a party flyer for Halloween? Here’s how to make one fast

    camblog
    26 Oct 2009 | 12:35 pm
    Technorati Tags: halloween,templates,images,clip art,flyers,menus,place card,gift certificate Get your Halloween groove on and plan a party. We’ve got templates and illustrations that will make putting together your party invitations, menu, etc. quick and fun. Steps for making your own flyer, menu, place card, or gift certificate: Here’s a new set of Halloween party templates we just published. They use free illustrations from the Clip Art site – to find them search for style 1450. New Halloween Templates Design set Flyer Party menu   Place card Gift certificate 1. Download any of…

  • Add Fotolia photos directly to Word or Powerpoint

    camblog
    14 Oct 2009 | 9:01 am
    We've been getting a little press today for a new plug-in available for Word and PowerPoint 2007 that enables you to search Fotolia's stock photos and add them directly to your documents.   We think this type of add-in helps our users be more productive. Why not give it a try and tell us what you think! --Nancy

  • Newly Designed Holiday Image Collections Are Here!

    camblog
    5 Oct 2009 | 3:30 pm
    Check out our new and fabulous Holiday Image Collection pages - we've redesigned them so they'll be easier to use and we have added even more categories to choose from. They are chock full of photos, illustrations and clip art to fit anything you might need for your holiday work and home projects - and best of all - they're free! Start out with Autumn and have fun.

  • Clip Art + Templates = Newsletters Made Easy

    camblog
    30 Jul 2009 | 9:00 am
    Combine your resources from the Office Online library of Clip Art Images and Office Online Newsletter Templates to create great newsletters quickly and easily. Here are few keyword searches you might consider when customizing content:   Academic Finance Fundraising Government Healthcare Technology   Alphabets Backgrounds  Borders Decorative Elements Signs Symbols And here are just a few of the most popular Newsletter Templates downloads:   Newsletter wizard Word 2000 or later   Business newsletter Word 2007   Newsletter (2-pp) Publisher 2002 or later Using Word?
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    Brian Jones: Office Extensibility

  • Open XML SDK Sessions at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC)

    BrianJones
    10 Nov 2009 | 3:53 pm
    I'm pretty excited, next week I'll be at PDC in Los Angeles giving another presentation on the Open XML SDK. I'll be at the conference from Nov 17-19, so if you're at PDC do come by and say hi. Here's the description and time of the session I'll be presenting: Session Title Time & Date Session Code Description Document Assembly and Manipulation on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Using Word Automation Services and Open XML 11/19/2009 11:30AM @ 408B PR09 Come learn about the Open XML SDK, which provides a set of .NET APIs to help developers create and manipulate documents in the Open…

  • Open XML and Office Services

    BrianJones
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:16 pm
    If you didn't see the news up on the Word team blog announcing Word Automation Services, and you have any interest in server side conversion of .docx files into .pdf or .xps, you should definitely go take a look: http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2009/10/26/introducing-word-automation-services.aspx Capturing Business Processes in Office I see a lot of different types of solutions people build to make their workgroups run more accurately and efficiently. Many of the solutions are created in order to codify one or more pieces of a business process, and as you can imagine,…

  • Migrating your custom solutions to Office 14

    BrianJones
    22 Oct 2009 | 5:11 pm
    For those folks who have custom Office solutions within their enterprise, one area that you often need to focus on during the upgrade cycle is testing out those custom solutions to make sure they'll run in the latest version. With Office 14, we're going to provide a great set of tools to make it even easier for folks tasked with deployment. Michael Kiselman provided a great overview today up on Gray Knowlton's blog: http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2009/10/22/announcing-the-office-2010-application-compatibility-program.aspx We always focus heavily on testing application…

  • Open XML SDK Demos Shown at the SharePoint Conference (SPC)

    BrianJones
    21 Oct 2009 | 9:45 pm
    First off, I want to thank everyone who attended my two sessions at SPC on developing solutions on top of the Open XML SDK. The sessions were recorded, so as soon as they are published to the web I will send you guys some links. In the meantime, I want to share with you guys some really cool demos and source code I presented at the sessions. Here is a link to all the demos that I showed, plus a bunch more: http://zeyadrajabi.members.winisp.net/sourcecode/Open XML demos.zip This zip file includes demos I have already blogged about plus a few new solutions around using the Open XML SDK with…

  • Open XML SDK Sessions at the SharePoint Conference (SPC)

    BrianJones
    9 Oct 2009 | 4:51 pm
    We're just a couple of weeks away before the start of the SharePoint Conference (SPC) being held in Las Vegas. I want to give you guys a heads up that I will be at the conference from Oct 19-22. I'm pretty excited because I will be giving two different presentations on the Open XML SDK at the conference. Here's the description and times of the two sessions I'll be doing: Session Title Time & Date Session Code Description SharePoint 2010 Based Document Assembly and Manipulation using Word Automation Services and Open XML 10/20/2009 10:30 AM @ Mandalay Bay H SPC349 The Open XML Formats are…
 
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    Mark Harrison

  • SharePoint 2010 Public Beta - Download

    18 Nov 2009 | 3:52 pm
    SharePoint 2010 Beta is now available. Download today!SharePoint 2010 Beta DownloadMicrosoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta downloadMark Harrison

  • Next Wave in Business Productivity

    18 Nov 2009 | 3:43 pm
    Today, at PDC in Los Angeles, Microsoft announced the public beta release of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010, Outlook Social Connector, Office Web Apps for business customers, and Office Mobile 2010.Press Release Next Wave in Business Productivity Mark Harrison

  • SharePoint / Office 2010 Beta 2 download - on MSDN & TechNet

    16 Nov 2009 | 2:16 pm
    Microsoft have posted SharePoint / Office (Professional Plus) 2010 Beta 2 on MSDN & TechNet subscriber download areas.Technet MSDNMark Harrison

  • Removing ghost NIC drivers from VHDs

    13 Nov 2009 | 8:54 am
    Can happen when you recreate Virtual Machines from the VHD files (rather than export/import).Solution:At a command prompt, enter the following:set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1start devmgmt.mscClick Show hidden devices on the View menu in Device Manager.The ghost NICs then appear and can be uninstalled.Mark Harrison

  • SharePoint 2010 Developer videos / presentations

    12 Nov 2009 | 7:42 am
    From channel 9 ...SharePoint 2010 Developer videos SharePoint 2010 Developer presentations Mark Harrison
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    Arpan Shah's Blog

  • SharePoint 2010 Platform Differentiation

    arpans
    9 Nov 2009 | 7:27 am
    There are many vendors that claim to have an enterprise collaboration platform. So what differentiates SharePoint? Each vendor can defend their features, their interoperability investments and developer stack. So instead of focusing on specific features, I wanted to lay out what I think are three broad areas of differentiation for SharePoint vs. any other vendor platform out there:   1. Real Choice: Anywhere, Anytime, Anyhow To some it may seem surprising, but SharePoint offers more choice to users & customers than any other vendor out there. - End Users can choose to access and…

  • SharePoint 2010 Channel 9 Interviews

    arpans
    8 Nov 2009 | 7:37 pm
    I wanted to share recent Channel 9 interviews that Tom Rizzo & I did during SharePoint Conference week. Enjoy! Here’s my interview. In this interview, Kirk Evans & I discuss web content management and using SharePoint 2010 for public facing internet sites. We even touch upon Azure and talk about some of the news during SharePoint Conference week.(Just click play)   Here’s Tom’s interview. Tom & Kirk Evans discuss some of the SharePoint Conference announcements, developer tools, options for hosting on premise or in the cloud as well as the SharePoint 2010/.NET 4 roadmap.

  • SharePoint 2010 Overview Presentation

    arpans
    22 Oct 2009 | 12:44 pm
    Here’s a pointer to the SharePoint Overview session presentation that I delivered at the SharePoint Conference this week. For those of you who missed it, I believe we’re publishing this session out publicly; I’ll be sure to point to it when it’s available. In the mean time, take a look at the deck. Keep in mind that all the screenshots are from a pre-beta build.

  • SharePoint Conference Keynotes

    arpans
    20 Oct 2009 | 11:26 am
    If you didn’t get a chance to come to the SharePoint Conference and watch the keynotes, you can watch them now! Steve Ballmer kicked off the conference with a dynamic keynote:   Followed by Jeff Teper: (I do a demo to highlight IT platform investments at 1:05)

  • Welcome to SharePoint 2010

    arpans
    19 Oct 2009 | 9:00 am
    The moment has come that many of you have been waiting for – full disclosure of SharePoint 2010! Truth be told, many of us in Redmond have been anxiously waiting for this day, because now we can talk freely about SharePoint 2010 to our customers and partners. There’s a lot of exciting news being announced today and a lot of great content will go live in a number of places. Keep in mind that while we are unveiling SharePoint 2010 today, the public beta won’t be available until next month. To get ready for that, I recommend checking out the following places for SharePoint 2010 news,…
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    John R. Durant's WebLog

  • VBA code I wrote this week in Excel and how it helped me

    johnrdurant
    30 Oct 2009 | 12:44 pm
    OK—my title is kind of colloquial. But I'm in a hurry, and the title conveys the idea well enough. Here's the deal: I have a spreadsheet with a bunch of important data. But, some of the most distinctive data are all merged into one cell. To make the data more usable, I needed to parse the data elements in that cell and separate each out into its own column. That way, I can filter and sort for each specific element. VBA made this possible and in short order (see my recent post Why VBA Still Makes Sense). Here's what the column looked like before: And, here's what it looks like after: You can…

  • Adding Event Code to Microsoft Office Backstage View Customizations

    johnrdurant
    28 Oct 2009 | 1:04 pm
    In my last post, I introduced the basic recipe of how to customize the Microsoft Office Backstage view. I showed how to set up the XML and where to place it. Now, we'll take a look at how to add event code so that when a user interacts with your custom layout in the Backstage view, custom code fires. First, let's look at the same basic Backstage view as last time with a few modifications. I've updated it to be a little more meaningful (the scenario and so forth here are fictional and meant only to convey technical concepts). Imagine we work at a law firm, and we need to do a custom legal scan…

  • Customizing the Backstage view and Ribbon UI in Office 2010

    johnrdurant
    27 Oct 2009 | 11:16 am
    One of the presentations I delivered at SPC 2009 was the title of this blog post. Don't worry—I'll be posting the video when it becomes available. And, we've got some MSDN content coming out before RTM that will show you the details around programming the Microsoft Office 2010 Backstage view and the Ribbon UI. Consider this blog post the prelude to all that. I'm going to introduce you to the basics of Backstage programming. For a great intro what Backstage is go here. Update: Mirko Mandic has newly added a post about Office 2010 UI Extensibility--- great companion reading to my post. Here's…

  • Office 2010 Developer at SPC & “What’s the end-user value?”

    johnrdurant
    23 Oct 2009 | 8:36 am
    Whew! What a week at the SharePoint Conference! Let me re-cap some highlights for you and talk for a moment about "Real User Value". On Monday, I delivered a session called "What's New in Office 2010 for Developers". It was very well attended, and the demos came through 100%. I laid out the investments we made in this release and why they matter. One of the best slides is the one you see here: My demos showed nearly every thing in this list working as part of an end-to-end enterprise demo. But, just listing off and show a bunch of technical things is not enough. The features must add up to…

  • Why VBA Still Makes Sense

    johnrdurant
    7 Sep 2009 | 6:32 am
    Not infrequently I am asked, “So, should I use VBA? Is it going to be around in Office 2010? Is it supported? Should I migrate away from VBA now? Can I count on this technology?” (Here I go with a response!) These are fair questions, because customers need to know that the software systems they employ are ones they can count on. There’s no question that the IT landscape in terms of teams, tools, software, networks, and so forth have changed dramatically since 1993, when VBA, or Visual Basic for Applications, made its way into Excel. But, VBA still has a place in this world. It still…
 
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    Office Development with Visual Studio

  • Office 2010 Beta & SharePoint 2010 Beta Now Available to the Public (Beth Massi)

    VSTO Team
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:54 am
    Monday Office and SharePoint 2010 Beta were released to MSDN/TechNet subscribers. Today it was announced at PDC that these are available to the rest of the public! Come and get it… Office 2010 Beta SharePoint 2010 Beta These Betas are compatible with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 which was released to the public a few weeks ago. We’ve also started a series on Channel 9 on SharePoint development in Visual Studio so check that out starting with: Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Also check out… Office 2010 resources Announcing Office 2010 Beta Availability Office…

  • Office & SharePoint 2010 Betas Available! (Beth Massi)

    VSTO Team
    16 Nov 2009 | 11:05 am
    Office and SharePoint 2010 are available for MSDN Subscribers today: MSDN Subscribers: Office 2010 Beta is here. MSDN Subscribers: Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 Beta is here. These versions of Office and SharePoint are compatible with the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 that was released a couple weeks ago. Check out these resources and please let us know what you think. Office 2010 resources Office Development in Visual Studio 2010 Beta Samples, Walkthroughs and Videos Submit your feedback in the Office Development in Visual Studio 2010 Forums Office 2010 Beta Resources Office 2010 Application…

  • Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program (Beth Massi)

    VSTO Team
    28 Oct 2009 | 9:46 am
    If you missed it, Office announced a compatibility program to help IT and developers who have built add-ins make a seamless upgrade to Office 2010.  We want you to have a successful and seamless migration to Office 2010 for your VSTO solutions. The program provides tools for environment assessment, code scanning and remediation assistance, and an update to the document conversion tools introduced with Office 2007. Check out Michael Kiselman’s post for more details on the program that will be available in early December. Enjoy, -Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community

  • Visual Studio 2010: Specify advanced publishing options (Saurabh Bhatia)

    VSTO Team
    19 Oct 2009 | 3:31 pm
    I have previously posted how you can specify various properties for a VSTO solution like the Publisher and Product Names by tweaking a few files in Visual Studio 2008. With Visual Studio 2010 (Beta 2) you can edit these properties directly through the Publish Page. All Office projects in Visual Studio 2010 now have an Options button on the Publish Page, which allows you to spet these properties.   The Publish Options dialog is similar to the ClickOnce publish options dialog for other types of projects, but this dialog only displays the options applicable to Office projects. Here is what…

  • Can I deploy my and all of its prerequisites in one file? (Mary Lee)

    VSTO Team
    14 Oct 2009 | 3:16 pm
    One frequent customer question is about how to deploy an application and all of its prerequisites in a single .msi or .exe file. This question applies whether you are deploying any of the following: Microsoft Office 2003 solutions with dependencies on .NET Framework 2.0, Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 SE runtime, Microsoft Office 2007 primary interop assemblies. Microsoft Office 2007 solutions with dependencies on .NET Framework 3.5 , Visual Studio Tools for Office runtime 3.0, Microsoft Office 2007 primary interop assemblies. Microsoft Office 2007 solutions with dependencies on .NET…
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    MikeKelly's WebLog

  • Top Ten Things at PDC 2009

    MikeKelly
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:03 pm
    I’m sitting at LAX writing this summary of PDC which is just wrapped up.  Although I went “on my own dime” (i.e. I paid my own way), it was definitely worth it for the ten reasons below… Learning a bunch more about Azure storage and SQL for Azure at Jai Haridas’ session and Brad Calder’s session on blobs, queues and the just-announced xDrive – which allows an Azure page blog to be formatted and mounted as an NTFS virtual drive. Microsoft Expression Blend’s SketchFlow, which is an amazingly easy-to-use and complete prototyping environment, described by Christian Schormann…

  • Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC 2009) : Tuesday

    MikeKelly
    17 Nov 2009 | 4:24 pm
    This is the first time I’ve been to PDC in a number of years, and it is fun to be back.  Here are some impressions really more than details about the first day. It is big.  Just walking around the LA Convention Center from session to session gives a sense of the thousands of people here (although one regular attendee told me that it seems a bit smaller than a few years ago).  Walking from one session to another can take 5-10 minutes as I traverse elevators, long corridors, etc. The typical room seems to hold about 500 people and most are fairly full.  One session I tried…

  • Azure – from July CTP to November 2009 PDC Release

    MikeKelly
    17 Nov 2009 | 10:38 am
    Well, the official PDC 2009 release of the Azure SDK is out and there are a lot of changes.  I’m not going to do a release-notes style narrative on changes, but thought it might be interesting to instead focus on changes I had to make to get a simple service that was working with July CTP against cloud table storage to work with the PDC release. My service is a simple service to display the next departure time for the ferry I regularly use here in Seattle.  The Washington State Ferry makes available an RSS feed of upcoming sailings, which I have a worker role to consume and…

  • DevDays Seattle – Scott Hanselman

    MikeKelly
    21 Oct 2009 | 10:55 am
    Lolcode.net – funny site with a domain-specific language that mimics IM syntax.  Actual code MVC When you create an MVC project, you get default code for controllers and views but nothing for the model. ASP.Net MVC lets you use nHibernate, Linq to SQL, whatever for your data access. The URL hierarchy is a form of user interface and in MVC the .aspx extension is gone. MVC uses the URLs to do routing - it's convention over configuration, i.e. there is no big file that defines the URL namespace - it's a convention that the URL is a controller action and there should be a controller named…

  • DevDays Seattle – Joel Spolsky

    MikeKelly
    21 Oct 2009 | 9:48 am
    We get interrupted too much by a computer that has an agenda of its own for ourselves. Examples: Windows updates Outlook: Any exceptions associated with the recurring appointment will be cancelled. Is this OK? <OK> <CANCEL> but Cancel doesn't mean cancel the appointments, it means cancel the change. Even shutting down your computer involves a decision - shut down, restart, hibernate, sleep, … Why are these called dialog boxes? They are an imaginary dialog between the programmer and the user. The programmer believes that users care about this dialog, but they don't. What you care…
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    Murray Sargent: Math in Office

  • Directionality in Math Zones

    MurrayS
    12 Nov 2009 | 4:07 pm
    In most places, mathematical text is written “left to right” (LTR). For example, in the expression x + y the plus is displayed to the right of the x and the y is displayed to the right of the plus. But in some Arabic locales, mathematical text is written right to left (RTL). Instead of E = mc2, one would see 2cm = E, although the letters would be Arabic, not Latin. In such RTL locales, square roots are mirrored, so that the surd symbol is flipped relative to the vertical axis. Similarly integral signs are mirrored, although the circular arrows in contour integrals are not mirrored, since…

  • Equation Numbering Prototype

    MurrayS
    14 Oct 2009 | 9:33 pm
    When writing the Math in Office 2010 post back in July, I could just imagine the disappointment various people would have when they discovered no mention of equation numbering. After getting math into PowerPoint, equation numbering had been the most often requested feature. Since PowerPoint 2010 now has the math facility, equation numbering has risen to the top of the wish list. Note that there is a way to display and manage equation numbering in Word as described in the work of Dong Yu. To get a feel for a native numbering facility, I implemented a prototype in RichEdit that interfaces to…

  • RichEdit Friendly Name Hyperlinks

    MurrayS
    24 Sep 2009 | 1:14 am
    This post is a companion to Automatic RichEdit Hyperlinks. As stated in that post, RichEdit has two kinds of hyperlinks, automatic hyperlinks (autoURLs) and friendly name hyperlinks. A friendly name hyperlink has a name, which is displayed, and a hidden instruction part that contains the actual URL. Such hyperlinks are commonly used when an author wants to display an informative name for a link rather than the URL itself. The present post describes RichEdit’s implementation of friendly name hyperlinks. It’s aimed at programmers, so if you’re not so inclined, you may want to skip it. A…

  • RichEdit Versions Update to 7.0

    MurrayS
    5 Sep 2009 | 1:16 am
    The original RichEdit Versions post covered RichEdit versions 1.0 through 6.0, since 6.0 was the latest version at the time. RichEdit 7.0 will ship with Office 2010, so here’s an update describing what that version adds. Most additions involve math editing/display and play a central role in the math features of OneNote 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Excel 2010, and other OfficeArt applications. Specifically RichEdit is responsible for interfacing to the LineServices and Page/TableServices math handlers, the math font library, and for a significant part of the math user interface in those…

  • Automatic RichEdit Hyperlinks

    MurrayS
    31 Aug 2009 | 6:00 pm
    RichEdit has two kinds of hyperlinks, automatic hyperlinks (autoURLs) and friendly name hyperlinks. As its name suggests, the autoURL is automatically recognized by RichEdit as a hyperlink and is displayed as a URL. A friendly name hyperlink has a name, which is displayed, and a hidden instruction part that contains the actual URL. The present post describes autoURLs; a later post will describe friendly name hyperlinks. The first autoURLs appeared in RichEdit 2.0, which shipped with Office 97, and have the usual web form, such as, http://www.msn.com. The permitted URL protocols were http:,…
 
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    SGriffin's MAPI Internals

  • November 2009 Release of MFCMAPI

    Stephen Griffin
    17 Nov 2009 | 8:46 am
    The November 2009 Release (build 6.0.0.1016) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com. The September 2009 release was downloaded over 18 thousand times, with nearly 1700 of them being the 64 bit build. This exceeded the July build by about 4000 downloads. Yay MFCMAPI! Mostly bug fixes this time around. Win 7 finally made me dig into why Close All Windows wasn’t working, and I did a bit of work to make MFCMAPI a better multimon client. Here's a change list - see the Issue Tracker on Codeplex for more details, or look at the code: Close All: Shutdown of contents table windows was swallowing the…

  • Where CDO Publishes Free Busy Information

    Stephen Griffin
    16 Nov 2009 | 6:05 am
    From time to time, I get asked to explain where CDO publishes Free Busy information in the Public Folder store, so I figured I’d put this article together. The basic process CDO uses for updating FB information is outlined in the More Information section of KB 278954. We’re concerned with the part of the process summarized as “queued up to be sent to the site’s Free/Busy public folder.” The first thing CDO does is to open the Public Folder store and read a couple properties off of it, PR_FREE_BUSY_FOR_LOCAL_SITE_ENTRYID (0x66250102) and  PR_SPLUS_FREE_BUSY_ENTRYID (0x66220102).

  • Strange Looking NDR

    Stephen Griffin
    12 Nov 2009 | 2:54 pm
    Not many people are aware of the feature, but MFCMAPI implements a MAPI Form Viewer. This means MFCMAPI can use MAPI to ask Outlook to display messages. You might have run into this if you ever double-click on a message in MFCMAPI. If you’re on a machine with Outlook installed, the message will open up like it does when you double-click it in Outlook. And if Outlook isn’t installed and you’re using Exchange’s MAPI, you get a scary dialog saying we couldn’t open the MAPI form manager. This is one of those dark corners of MAPI into which few people tread, and most of those who do end…

  • Announcing EWSEditor 1.5!

    Stephen Griffin
    9 Nov 2009 | 12:18 pm
    Matt’s very excited about the release of EWSEditor. This tool does for EWS what MFCMAPI does for MAPI. With this tool, Matt does what I did with MFCMAPI and what I recommend to anyone trying to learn a new API: the best way to learn an API is to write tools that use it. As you work with EWSEditor, you may notice a few things which are similar to MFCMAPI. This is no coincidence. EWS and MAPI, both designed primarily to interact with an Exchange server, share much of the same object hierarchy, which in turn dictates that tools designed to explore these hierarchies will be similar. Also, since…

  • Inside the PST

    Stephen Griffin
    26 Oct 2009 | 10:12 am
    As Paul Thurrott notes, we just announced that we’re documenting the PST file structure. I haven’t decided yet if I’ll be writing a standalone parser/viewer/validator, but I’m sure I’ll be adding some interesting stuff to MFCMAPI. I’ll let you know when I know more.
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    Office OFFline Comic Strip

  • Halloween + Dressing up + Zombies =

    David Salaguinto
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:57 am
      I decided to try my hand at animation using a new tool I discovered just this week. I actually wrote the joke that appears in the above video last month, but I never got around to turning it into a comic. I’m not sure if I’ll keep doing these short videos, but I thought it was kind of funny to have a zombie joke read in a robot voice. What do you think? Let me know in the comments. UPDATE: I just noticed that the video doesn't appear in the RSS feed, so for all you RSS subscribers, if you want to watch the video I created, you'll need to click through to the actual post.

  • Learning + Movies =

    David Salaguinto
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:45 am
    Photo by quapan Today’s Office OFFline comic was inspired by the movie, "2012." I actually haven’t seen the movie yet, but it sounds awesome. Have you seen it? Was it any good?

  • Democracy + Work + People + Decisions =

    David Salaguinto
    6 Nov 2009 | 9:48 am
    Today’s Office OFFline comic was inspired by the recent elections. After creating this comic, it occurred to me that elections are a lot like business meetings. The people in charge usually have an agenda. Most people never participate. And when it’s over, we spend a ton of time trying to figure out what really happened. Have you noticed other similarities?

  • People + Word =

    David Salaguinto
    30 Oct 2009 | 11:03 am
    I've learned a lot about people by working at Microsoft...(read more)

  • Marketing + Software =

    David Salaguinto
    23 Oct 2009 | 9:13 am
    Everything they needed to know, they learned in Junior High...(read more)
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  • Two recent Office 2007 presentations…

    The New Paperclip
    16 Nov 2009 | 2:17 am
    So if you have been reading The New Paperclip for a while, you will know that the guy behind The New Paperclip is Paul Woods. Recently he delivered two presentations at two separate events – Microsoft’s TechEd Australia Conference, and the community driven OfficeDevCon09. Here are the two presentations available on Slideshare… Office Dev Con 09 After Deployment View more presentations from Paul Woods. TechEd Australia – OFC102 – Productivity for the ITPro View more presentations from Paul Woods. I hope you enjoy! ’till next time! TNP Related posts:The New…

  • It’s Time to Celebrate – Win a copy of 2007 Microsoft Office System Inside Out

    The New Paperclip
    14 Nov 2009 | 7:02 pm
    Do you want to win a copy of “2007 Microsoft Office System Inside Out” by John Pierce – valued at $USD 49.99?  If so… read on… This month is a great one here at The New Paperclip, for a number of reasons: The first month where I have had over 50 000 unique visitors, who just like you are trying to solve their Office 2007 (and now Office 2010) challenges; I delivered a session at OfficeDevCon09 where there wasn’t a single spare seat in the room; and just today… I have launched a Facebook Fan page, so you can keep up to date with all the tips, tricks and tutorials from…

  • Put a Screenshot in a Word 2010 document

    The New Paperclip
    11 Nov 2009 | 8:39 am
    Hey if you have upgraded to Office 2010, you might have noticed an unreal new feature which allows you to very quickly paste a screenshot into your Word 2010 documents, Excel 2010 workbooks, or PowerPoint 2010 decks! Here is how! Open up your Word 2010 document Click on the “Insert tab” in the Word 2010 ribbon Look for the “Illustrations” group Click on “Screenshot” Once you click on “Screenshot, you have two options.  The first is to simply paste in the screenshots that Word 2010 has already taken for you!  For example, if you have four different applications open,…

  • Start Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 automatically

    The New Paperclip
    10 Nov 2009 | 8:24 am
    If you are like me, or anyone else that I work with, in fact if you are anyone in business today – chances are you use Outlook EVERY DAY! And if you are like 99% of the population, you will double click on that Outlook icon every morning to open it.  Talk about wasting time!  Did you know that we can automate things so Outlook will automatically start whenever you log into your computer.  All you need to do is find the “Startup” folder in your Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 start menu.  Once you have found it, simply drag the Outlook icon into that folder.

  • Count the number of blank Cells in Excel 2007 & Excel 2010

    The New Paperclip
    9 Nov 2009 | 8:01 am
    Are you building a spreadsheet and would like to know how many black cells you have in a given range? There is a great function in Excel that you can use to do exactly that – count the number of BLANK cells in a range. Simply type… =COUNTBLANK(range) (replace range with the range of cells you want to limit your count to).  Note that there is one particular thing that might slip you up with this function.  When using =COUNTBLANK(), Excel is only searching for blank, empty cells.  If you have a space in a cell for example – it might look empty to you, but Excel can see that…
 
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  • Using SharePoint to Communicate KPI Dashboards

    MistyKhan
    6 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
    There is a reason that although I first promised a blog post on using SharePoint to display your company KPI dashboard back in late June, I’m just now getting started on it.  Turns out, its a much more complicated and multi-step process than I first expected.  So in attempt not to overwhelm both you in reading a ridiculously long post and me in creating one, I’ll be posting the following Arrow-Tips and How Tos throughout November: Arrow-Tip #50 Establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) - in this post I will described the process we used for determining what KPIs to use…

  • Social Media From a Parent’s Perspective Presentations

    MistyKhan
    15 Oct 2009 | 9:29 am
    Yesterday morning I gave a presentation (click here to view the presentation on slideshare) to parents from Yorkshire Academy regarding the benefits of social media as well as issues to watch out for. My presentation focused mainly on Facebook, however, yesterday evening I had the good fortune to attend another presentation sponsored by YPO on social media given by Michelle Cullison of Daystar Digital Development. Michelle’s focus was mainly on My Space, but she also discussed other areas of social media - we covered many of the same things, but I got a deeper level of insight from her…

  • Facebook from a Parent’s Perspective

    MistyKhan
    13 Oct 2009 | 7:16 am
    Tomorrow morning I will be giving a free seminar on Facebook and other social media from a parent’s perspective. We will discuss the positive aspects of Facebook as a communication and marketing tool along with what to watch out for as your children start to participate in social media. I will be offering some suggestions for how to make social media a positive experience for your children rather than a potential nightmare for both of you. Please feel free to join us tomorrow from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM at the Yorkshire Academy campus 14120 Memorial Drive (Houston 77079).

  • Arrow-Tip #49 Synchronizing Calendars Between Email Profiles

    MistyKhan
    8 Sep 2009 | 1:17 pm
    Do you have multiple email/calendar profiles? If so, you may be interested in this quick solution I’ve come up with for synchronizing my calendars and it will even work with gmail. Because I work with several Outlook software and coaching clients on Outlook, I usually have at least 4 active Outlook Exchange profiles at any given time.  I also have a gmail profile that I use on occassion for my non-Microsoft pals.  One of my good friends Stephan Kinsella recently blogged about his frustration with maintaining multiple calendars so here is the solution I use. Whenever you create…

  • Loving my Blackberry Tour

    MistyKhan
    1 Sep 2009 | 2:55 pm
    On Sunday I decided I’d finally had enough of my 2nd Blackberry (8830 World Edition) that’s track ball kept sticking and that kept asking me to “say a comand” when the battery cover wasn’t falling off. Obviously I had issues with the 8830, but I have to say that I love love love the Tour. The display rocks, I can now take pictures and videos and so far it hasn’t asked me to order it around once. Normally, I keep my technology until people start making fun of me (my car is 13 years old) so for me to make a change after only 18 months is a pretty big deal.
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  • How To Take a Perfect Screenshot & Avoid Cropping the Screen Capture Image?

    iawalsh
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:58 pm
    You want to take a screenshot of something and not have to fix it when you’re finished. Screenshots can be tricky if the window, dialog box, or application floats over the main screen. Instead of taking a screenshots of the entire window, you can automatically take only the most active window. Here’s my favorite trick when taking Print Screens. Some people call these screenshots or screen dumps. Tip: The print screen button (PrintScrn) is next to F12 on your keyboard. 1. To take a screenshot, press PrintScrn. 2. Open Word and Paste (Edit, Paste) the screenshot into your document.

  • How to Convert Boring Text into Stunning Tables

    iawalsh
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:23 pm
    Let’s say you have a large block of text that you want convert into a table. How do you do it? I write many technical documents. This means that many times I need to reformat text so that it is more attractive and easier to read. One way to do this is to place the text in tables. This lets the reader see the information in a more structured format. You can also do this by pasting the text in Excel but you then have to bring it back it Word, which defeats the purpose. How to convert text to a table 1. Before you start insert separator characters — such as commas or tabs — to define where…

  • How to change MS Word’s default color White to Blue

    iawalsh
    18 Nov 2009 | 8:06 am
    You can change the background color of Microsoft Word from White to Blue. For some people, this makes it easier on the eye as it reduces the glare from the screen. I have to admit, I prefer blue to white but have difficulties when adding images or inserting text with different color schemes. Anyway, it’s a nice option to have. Here’s how I do it: 1. From the Tools menu, choose Options. 2. Click Blue Background, White Text. That’s it! Related posts:How To Change The Default Font? There are several ways to do this, but this...Word 2003 Tip – How to Change the Background Color in…

  • How to Add Special Effects to your Next Business Report

    iawalsh
    17 Nov 2009 | 8:16 am
    How do I animate text in a Word Document? For example, to make dancing ants or add sparkles to the text. 1. Select the text you want to animate. 2. Click Format, Font, and then the Text Effects tab. 3. In the Animations box, click the effect you want, for example Sparkle Text. You can preview the animation in the box at the bottom of the menu. Only one animation effect can be selected at a time. Related posts:How to update the Date automatically when you open Microsoft Word 2003 How to update the Date automatically when you open Microsoft...20 Golden Rules For Submitting Articles The…

  • How to Optimize PDF Files for Web Sites

    iawalsh
    16 Nov 2009 | 9:20 am
    Portable Document Format (PDF) is the defacto file format for presenting device-independent documents on and off the Web. While PDFs have become quite popular on the Web, many PDFs used in web sites are designed for high quality print output and are not optimized for the Web. Creating Small PDFs The main factors in creating small PDFs are image resolution, image type (bitmap or vector), the number of fonts used and how they are embedded, PDF version, and the level of compression. In general the higher the PDF version number, the smaller the file. Acrobat 5 (PDF version 1.4) added JBIG2…
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