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    Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog

  • Special Guest Blog Post: Making connections with Office for Mac

    Marshall Nam
    4 Feb 2010 | 4:02 pm
    We’ve got a special guest blog post from a Tristan, a Microsoft Student Partner who’ll be joining us at MacWorld booth this year. We’re excited to have him helping us out this year, so I've asked him to introduce himself to our blog readers before we head to SF. - Marshall   Hello Mac Mojo Readers! My name is Tristan Gibeau. I’m a graduate student in computer engineering at the University of Central Florida and a Microsoft Student Partner and happy to be a guest blogger on Mac Mojo.  As a Mac user, I have people ask me, “Tristan, why did you buy a…

  • Find out how Office for Mac Loves You—and maybe get a new MacBook Pro too!

    Mac Mojo Team
    31 Jan 2010 | 11:01 am
    In advance of Macworld (and just in time for Valentine’s Day), the MacBU has put together a little something to open the lines of communication with Office for Mac users through popular social media channels—not to mention giving away custom-color, 2.53 GHz MacBook Pros through twitter!   While we've been listening to you here on the blog and elsewhere, we're now eager to participate in the conversations that are happening on twitter and facebook. We will continue to find better ways to provide useful content here…

  • 2009 in Review

    Eric Wilfrid
    22 Dec 2009 | 1:12 pm
     As 2009 draws to a close, I’d like to take some time to reflect on the year here in the MacBU. It’s been a big year for Office 2008, with several significant updates that make your work easier. In 2009, we also got to look forward, sharing the first news with our community about the next major version we have coming down the pipe. In fact, I’m using that version right now, writing this post in a “dogfood” version of Word for Mac - being in the “dogfood” phase means that my team and I use the new Office to get our day-to-day work done. In doing…
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    Erika Ehrli

  • What’s New for Developers in Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010?

    erikaehrli
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:38 am
    The upcoming release of Office and SharePoint offers a wealth of interesting new scenarios and solutions that can be built thanks to new features and improvements added to different Office and SharePoint products and technologies. There’s more possibilities to integrate Office and SharePoint to build rich client-server solutions using tools such as Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010, InfoPath 2010, and Access 2010. Some of you already had an opportunity to play with the Betas and write code, read lots of blogs, twitter feeds, and some MSDN articles and videos. Some others are…

  • 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…
 
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    Inside Office Online

  • Follow us to our new home on The Office Blog

    OfficeOnline
    17 Jan 2010 | 9:38 pm
    The Inside Office Online blog has grown up and moved to a new, better platform, where we've joined forces with the templates, clip art, Office Casual, Crabby Office Lady, and Office Comics blogs to help you excel. Your support and feedback helped us get...(read more)

  • Live coverage of CES from Vegas straight through Saturday

    OfficeOnline
    7 Jan 2010 | 7:44 pm
    Want to hear the buzz on the "street" at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show this week? We have a great team on location there and they're blogging and posting videos from the floor, plus tweeting and facebooking to get you the newest news on the Microsoft...(read more)

  • Template du Jour: A dashboard style report

    OfficeOnline
    7 Jan 2010 | 6:14 am
    Today’s template is a dashboard style report for Excel 2007, provide by community contributor JSM. You can download this template now, or get more free templates or free clip art & photos from Office.com. Have you designed a useful template? Share...(read more)

  • Office 2010 pricing announced

    OfficeOnline
    5 Jan 2010 | 8:26 am
    Office 2010 will be offered in four versions: Office Home and Business, Office Professional, Office Home and Student, and Office Professional Academic. See more on the announcement at the Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering blog or click here to download...(read more)

  • Top Templates: chronological resume

    OfficeOnline
    5 Jan 2010 | 7:38 am
    Today’s template is a chronological resume for Word 2007. This is part of our resume collection , which includes additional career-specific resumes. When you’ve revamped your resume, submit it to Monster.com through our career center . You can download...(read more)
 
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    Topix: Microsoft Office

  • Pivot Table Data Crunching: Microsoft Excel 2010

    9 Feb 2010 | 7:47 am
    PivotTables may be Excel's most powerful feature, but Microsoft has estimated that only 15% of Excel users take advantage of them.

  • OpenOffice is the new David Hasselhoff

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:35 am
    A new study from German web analytics firm Webmasterpro.de shows that adoption rates of open source productivity software suites swings wildly between different countries.

  • Facebook to Dominate Webmail with Project Titan?

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:07 pm
    Facebook and Google just can't stop one-upping each other. Late last month Google took a small slice of Facebook's pie by tossing their Social Search feature into beta, but this week the popular social network took the upper hand with rumors of a fully featured webmail product.

  • Q&a: Microsoft's Chris Capossela

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:35 pm
    Chris Capossela's career path is a throwback, just like Dom's, the Italian restaurant in Boston's North End that his parents ran for 45 years.

  • PSC Getting Started Sample Database for Microsoft Office and Lotus...

    8 Feb 2010 | 1:06 pm
    Ramblings on IBM Lotus Notes, integration with MS Office, Games, Movies, Music, and whatever else I feel like ... PSC Getting Started Sample Database for Microsoft Office and Lotus Symphony Integration from Lotusphere 2010 February 8th, 2010 In both of my Lotusphere 2010 sessions, JMP106 a oeKum Bah Yaha Meets a oeLets Kick Butta : The Integration ...
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    The Microsoft Office Word Team

  • The Why Behind Our Styles and Lists Designs

    wrdblog
    28 Jan 2010 | 11:06 am
    In Word 2007, I was the program manager responsible for driving both the changes in the styles user experience and the investment made in lists. There a number of decisions that were made by those of us involved in those efforts that folks are still talking about (including in recent comments on this and other blogs). This post gives you some of my personal insights as to why we went in the directions we did. The goal is to provide a bit more information about both how Word works and why it works the way it does in these areas. -Stuart  The Style User Experience The organization of the…

  • Word Automation Services: How it Works

    wrdblog
    18 Jan 2010 | 4:19 am
    In my first two posts in the series on Word Automation Services, I talked about what it is and what it does – in this post, I wanted to drill in on how the service works from an architectural standpoint, and what that means for solutions built on top of it. Word Power on the Server The most important component of Word Automation Services is getting a core engine with 100% fidelity to desktop Word running on the server – accordingly, much of our effort was focused on this task. If you've ever tried to use desktop Word on the server, you're acutely aware of the work that went into this –…

  • Word Automation Services: What It Does

    wrdblog
    16 Dec 2009 | 5:48 am
    Following up on my first post about Word Automation Services, I wanted to continue by talking about the functionality offered (and not offered) by the service, how it's exposed, and the types of solutions you will be able to build on top of it. What the Service Does Functionally, the service is very simple – this is intentional, as we wanted to address the pain points that we've heard loud and clear from you over the past few years, while keeping performance and scale at the top of our priorities (which meant avoiding the temptation to bring over everything "just because"). With that…

  • Quick Co-Authoring Video

    wrdblog
    23 Nov 2009 | 3:41 pm
    A few weeks back we talked about co-authoring in pretty good depth (Word: Co-authoring – Where we are Coming From & Word: Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010). If you want something a bit more high-level that covers co-authoring in not only Word, but also in PowerPoint and OneNote 2010 here's a three minute overview video. We'd love to know what you think of it. - Jonathan Bailor

  • 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…
 
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  • MS Powerpoint Tutorial

    virtualmaryam
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:16 am

  • Google’s Real-Time Voice Translator Could Make Any Language

    Dominic Stoughton
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:12 pm
    NEWS Google’s Real-Time Voice Translator Could Make Any Language By Eliot Van Buskirk February 8, 2010 | 11:11 am EST Google engineers are working on a translator for Google Android smartphones to convert one language into another quickly enough to allow speakers without a common language to communicate with one another in near real time. We’ve seen a few stabs at this concept, like a 63,000-word real-time translator and a cute 400-phrase iPhone app, both of which we compared to Douglas Adams’ Babel Fish from his Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy novels — the same comparison…

  • Apple iTunes Sync for iPhones/iPod Touch

    palmtopman
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:19 pm
    When I first picked up an Apple iPod Touch about a year ago to see how well it would sync with my PC running Microsoft Outlook 2003 and Internet Explorer, I was pleasantly surprised. As such, the iPod Touch took over as my primary PDA managing all my PIM (Personal Information Management) and lots more. Although iTunes, a year ago did sync my Outlook Calendar and Contacts  it wouldn’t sync Notes or Tasks and after a long chat with a very knowledgeable chap in the Apple Store in Regents Street (London) I came to accept the fact that “Apple was Apple” and “Microsoft was…

  • "Advanced Excel for Microsoft Dynamics GP" Training

    Mariano Gomez
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:47 am
    My friend, MVP Mark Polino is hosting a 2-day class from March 1 – 2, 2010 at the IBIS, Inc., offices in Norcross, Georgia (20 minutes north of downtown Atlanta). Mark promises some blood after you leave this class as nothing will hold you back anymore from connecting Microsoft Dynamics GP and Microsoft Office Excel — not my words! Take advantage of this unique opportunity to get some training from one of the best in the business, so click here for more information. Until next post! MG.-Mariano Gomez, MVPMaximum Global Business, LLChttp://www.maximumglobalbusiness.com/

  • Callas pdfaPilot 2.1 Adds Features

    printoolz
    8 Feb 2010 | 6:28 am
    callas pdfaPilot 2.1 now also converts Microsoft Office documents to PDF/A Additional features of the new version: support of PDF/A-1a, enhanced handling of XMP metadata as well as transparency flattening when publishing callas software has further developed the functionality of its flagship product pdfaPilot and integrated it into the new version 2.1. pdfaPilot now also converts documents, spreadsheets and presentations created within Microsoft Office, rule compliant to PDF/A. Additionally it offers new features that enable improved conversion to PDF/A-1a. Unlike PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-1a also…
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    Microsoft Excel

  • Calculating Excel Models on an HPC Cluster

    Joseph Chirilov
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:04 pm
    Thanks to Gabhan Berry for putting together this series on high performance computing. In a previous post, I introduced the work we have done with the Windows HPC team to enable customers to calculate Excel models on a Windows HPC cluster. In this follow up post, I go a little deeper into how we can harness the utility and power of Excel 2010 and Windows HPC to solve complex modeling problems. Modeling Complex Systems using Excel 2010 and Windows HPC Mathematically modeling complex problems is far more main stream than it once was and Excel has played a major role in making that happen. From…

  • Excel 2010 and High Performance Computing

    Joseph Chirilov
    4 Feb 2010 | 9:36 am
    Thanks to Gabhan Berry for putting together this series on high performance computing. In this post, I introduce the work we’ve done with the Windows HPC team to integrate Excel 2010 with cluster computing. This is a high level overview and I’ll follow up with the technical details in later posts. High Level Overview of Excel 2010 and Cluster Computing High Performance Computing (HPC) is a branch of technical computing that uses supercomputers and cluster computing to solve computationally intensive problems. Cluster computing involves utilizing the physical resources of multiple…

  • Management Features of PowerPivot for SharePoint

    Joseph Chirilov
    1 Feb 2010 | 2:24 pm
    Thanks to John Hancock from the PowerPivot team for putting together this post. Previous articles have covered some of the features of PowerPivot for Excel, and shown how PowerPivot helps users build really powerful BI applications right in Excel.  We have described some of the PowerPivot for SharePoint features on this blog as well as the PowerPivot blog, so for this article I will be focusing on the features that we provide to help IT to manage and understand the self-service BI activity. Self-Service Business Intelligence and IT The goal of PowerPivot for SharePoint is to allow people…

  • Programmability Improvements in Excel 2010

    Joseph Chirilov
    27 Jan 2010 | 10:01 pm
    Thanks to Danny Khen for putting together this post. What’s new? Excel has been a platform for developing business solutions for a long time now. Developers write code to customize and extend Excel in many ways – automating Excel operations, user interface customizations, data entry forms and extending Excel formulas with user defined functions, to name some key ones. Many developers create very complex applications, which have demanding requirements and push Excel to its limits, so developers are always looking for more ways to get the job done. With Office 2010 right around the corner,…

  • Table Improvements in Excel 2010

    Joseph Chirilov
    25 Jan 2010 | 9:25 pm
    Thanks to Ben Rampson for putting together this post. In today’s article I will outline three features in Office 2010 that improve table interaction in Excel.  These feature additions build on the work started Excel 2007, addressing areas with significant customer feedback and further improving the feature area. The first table improvement feature, AutoFilters in sheet headers, builds on work completed in the previous version of Excel.  In Office 2007, when the table header of a selected table is scrolled outside the visible range of a sheet, the table column names snap into the…
 
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    Microsoft Office Outlook Team

  • Better IMAP in Outlook 2010

    outblog
    5 Feb 2010 | 4:36 pm
    One of the things we have improved in Outlook 2010 is IMAP accounts. IMAP is a protocol that is used by many e-mail services, including Gmail and AOL. If your e-mail service supports IMAP, you can use Outlook to access your e-mail. Here are some of the IMAP improvements in Outlook 2010: Automatic configuration If you have an e-mail account that supports IMAP, your account can be automatically configured in Outlook 2010. All you need to set up your account in Outlook 2010 is your e-mail address and password. Outlook uses the Sent Items and Deleted Items folders on the e-mail server…

  • Service Issue with Outlook Calendar Sharing Service

    outblog
    1 Feb 2010 | 5:31 pm
    At the end of 2009, there was an issue with the Microsoft Outlook Calendar Sharing service, which enables Publish to Office Online in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. This issue delayed or prevented customers from publishing a calendar to the service. The problem was resolved in early January and we are implementing procedures to prevent a similar reoccurrence. We want to share some background on why this outage occurred. As part of preparing the Microsoft Outlook 2010 version of the Calendar Sharing service, a configuration error was introduced on December 21, 2009, on the pre-production…

  • Issue with message sizes in Outlook 2010 Beta

    outblog
    21 Jan 2010 | 5:54 pm
    Hello Outlook 2010 Beta users! We have heard from some of you that you are running into an issue with large e-mail message sizes in the Outlook 2010 Beta. We want to update you on the status of this issue. There is a known bug in the Outlook 2010 Beta where the usage of number and bullet lists causes redundant CSS definitions to be included in each outgoing message.  The outgoing message might not display correctly in a mail service where there is a limit to message size, such as Gmail, BlackBerry e-mail, or Craigslist. Restarting Outlook removes all the extra CSS for new outgoing…

  • Check out our new blog design

    outblog
    12 Jan 2010 | 4:16 pm
    Hello Blog Readers! The creative folks in the Office Design Group have provided us a refreshing new “2010” look for our blog masthead. The new look mirrors that of some of the other Office team blogs and we think the new year is the perfect time to put it on display. Let us know what you think! The Microsoft Outlook Team

  • Check Out These Conversations Videos!

    outblog
    23 Dec 2009 | 11:34 am
    Hello, Office 2010 Beta users! A couple of months ago, Michael discussed the new Conversations arrangement in Microsoft Outlook 2010. We hope you’re enjoying using Conversations. Since the Conversations arrangement offers new capabilities for your Inbox, we want to share some videos to help you better understand how Conversations make your Inbox easier to manage. Feel free to comment, and let us know what you think. These videos are best viewed in full screen mode.     Jenny Liu and Josh Meisels Outlook Program Managers
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    The PowerPoint Team Blog

  • Creating Custom Shapes in PowerPoint 2010

    pptteam
    1 Feb 2010 | 1:41 pm
    PowerPoint has a lot of great preset shapes, but sometimes what you really need is a custom shape tailored-made for your presentation. If you’re looking to go beyond the Freeform Tool to create more complex custom shapes, we’ve created a new feature in PowerPoint 2010 called Combine Shapes to help you do just that! Using the principles of Boolean Geometry, the Combine Shapes tool allows you to create new shapes by combining multiple shapes in one of four ways: Union, Combine, Subtract, or Intersect.   This is a relatively advanced feature, so it doesn’t appear by default on…

  • Behind the Scenes: Accessibility in PowerPoint 2010

    pptteam
    25 Jan 2010 | 8:43 pm
    As one of the newest program managers on the PowerPoint team (and a recovering history major), I’m always fascinated to hear the stories behind features I now can’t imagine living without. And as one of the engineers responsible for Accessibility in PowerPoint, I care a tremendous amount about the accessibility of the software we build. So you can imagine how happy I was to see these two interests collide in one of the latest posts to the Office Engineering Blog—a backstage peek at the new Document Accessibility Checker built in to Excel, Word, and PowerPoint 2010, written by Larry…

  • Get More from PowerPoint with Ribbon Hero

    pptteam
    19 Jan 2010 | 4:13 pm
    Microsoft Office Labs just released a fun new concept test called Ribbon Hero that lets you play games to improve your Office skills. Earn points while using Office, play a challenge to discover new features, or connect with Facebook to compete with your friends. Learn more over at the Office Labs blog, and see how high you can get your PowerPoint score!   - Nathan Penner

  • What Can Multimedia Do for You?

    pptteam
    11 Jan 2010 | 11:27 pm
    Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft set up a few booths on the floor to demo Office 2010 informally. I am very happy to hear that we engineers aren’t the only ones excited about the new multimedia features! When I joined the team a year and a half ago, it didn’t take me very long to realize how much better my life would be now that I can embed, trim, and export videos all from within PowerPoint. After a little experimentation, I found that I can also present video material in a way that was previously impractical without spending a long time in complex,…

  • 5 Tips on Getting PowerPoint to Sing!

    pptteam
    7 Jan 2010 | 9:43 pm
    Many of you spend a lot of time working in PowerPoint. It’s become the top visual communications tool in business and is used to shape perception every day. But PowerPoint is only the instrument, you’re the master musician. Any great musician can tell you that it takes practice, practice, practice to master an instrument. When Microsoft approached us to create an instructional template for PowerPoint 2010, we were thrilled. To actually be in PowerPoint, an application that we have a long history with, and to be able to share some principles of good presentation design with the world was a…
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    Templates blog

  • The fat lady has sung

    templateers
    13 Jan 2010 | 11:04 am
    It’s all over here. We’ve moved our blog. Please go to our new home at http://blogs.office.com/b/templates_and_images/default.aspx.

  • We want your feedback

    templateers
    8 Jan 2010 | 11:46 am
    You may have arrived here, expecting to see our Templates blog. We’ve moved to a new spot, and combined our Templates and Clip Art blogs into one, all-up, downloadable content blog. It’s all still new to us, and for now we’re taking it slow and easy, keeping current features and assessing what we want to do differently. To that point, we would really like to know what you think of the Template du Jour feature. Please post comments on our new blog.

  • Looking for something? See our new blog

    templateers
    7 Jan 2010 | 9:27 pm
    Missing your daily dose of templates? Wondering where the new stuff is? Mosey on over to our new blog. We’re just getting up to speed, but we’d like you to come along for the ride.

  • Template du Jour: A dashboard style report

    templateers
    6 Jan 2010 | 8:17 am
    Today’s template is a dashboard style report for Excel 2007, provide by community contributor JSM. You can download this template now,  or get more free templates or free clip art & photos from Office.com. Have you designed a useful template? Share you own templates here. You never know when we might feature yours!

  • Template du Jour: chronological resume

    templateers
    5 Jan 2010 | 7:21 am
    Today’s template is a chronological resume for Word 2007. This is part of our resume collection, which includes additional career-specific resumes. When you’ve revamped your resume, submit it to Monster.com through our career center.   You can download this template now,  or get more free templates or free clip art & photos from Office.com. Have you designed a special template? Share you own creative templates here. You never know when we might feature yours!
 
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    Access Team Blog

  • Access 2010 hands-on-lab is available on Channel 9

    Clint Covington
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:49 pm
    For all those that want to experience development with Access 2010, a new Access 2010 unit has been added to the Channel 9 Learning Center for Office 2010. The new Building Solutions with Access 2010 Lab consists of 5 exercises highlighting the new web database feature and touches on the new Macro Designer and Data Macros. The new Macro Designer provides developers with a much easier and efficient environment to work in and Data Macros are similar to triggers in SQL Server. Rather than embed business logic throughout forms, one can associate Data Macros with tables so that anytime a user…

  • Access 2010: Performance improvements against SharePoint lists

    Clint Covington
    5 Feb 2010 | 1:27 pm
    Today’s guest writer is DJ Cole from the Access development team. DJ is the architect and primary developer of SharePoint connectivity performance improvements. The Access Show Overview Our goal for Access 2010 was to make connections to SharePoint lists nearly as fast as local tables. We had to ensure requests didn’t swamp the server, bottleneck over the network, or cause the client machine’s CPU or RAM to thrash. We found caching data in local tables provided the best user experience while being conservative with resources on the server, network and local machine. Access 2010…

  • Spend the day with an Access engineer

    Clint Covington
    3 Feb 2010 | 10:53 am
    Attention Puget Sound readers! We are polishing Access 2010 for RTM and need your feedback. Next week a handful of Access engineers will be available to visit on-site to help customers upgrade their Access applications to Access 2010. This is your opportunity to verify your app works great with Access 2010 and to provide early feedback for our planning process. If you are in the Puget Sound area and are interested in spending a day or two with an Access engineer, send us email. Tell us about your professional background, the business purpose of your application, and some details about your…

  • Access blog goes to China

    Clint Covington
    2 Feb 2010 | 1:13 am
    Lois Wang, a program manager on the team responsible for reports, has started the Access China blog. Lois will blog about Access and open a broader dialog with Access developers in China. If you read Chinese—check it out. Friends in China—enjoy!

  • The Access Show: Classified ads demo

    Clint Covington
    1 Feb 2010 | 8:51 am
    Microsoft has an internal classified ads Web site that allows employees to buy and sell stuff—think of it as a company Craigslist. Barath Balasubramanian a tester on the Access team decided to recreate the app using Access 2010. I asked Barath to join us on The Access Show for a short demo. He plans to share it on Office Online once we ship Access 2010 (it will automatically show up inside the Access’ BackStage New page). In the meantime Barath has shared a beta  copy on UtterAccess. Subscribe to The Access Show: RSS, iPod/MP4, WMV (high quality), Zune, MP3 Hopefully, it inspires…
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    Microsoft Office Project 2007

  • Task Statusing and the new Grid

    Patrick Malatack
    28 Jan 2010 | 12:59 pm
    A few weeks back Patrick Conlan posted an overview of some of the Time Tracking investment areas for Project Server 2010. Today we are going to drill in on one such investment area, namely the Statusing feature area. This screenshots used for this example are taken from a post-Beta Build of Project Server 2010, so if you noticed differences from our November Beta release it could be because no one has seen some of this yet J Time Tracking is where we focus our efforts on the “Team Member” experience. For those unfamiliar with Project terminology, “Team Members” are generally the set…

  • Tips and Tricks: Change the table quickly

    Toney Sisk
    25 Jan 2010 | 3:51 pm
      Tables consist of columns that show specific information about task and resources. Here’s a quick way to turn the tables on your project. Right click the Select All button in the upper left-hand corner of any Project view that uses a table, such as the Gantt Chart view, Task Usage view, or Resource Sheet view. A list of table appears for you to pick. In the example, below, the Cost table has been applied to the Gantt Chart.

  • Project 2010: Copy and Paste

    Jon Kaufthal
    25 Jan 2010 | 6:03 am
    In this post I’ll cover improvements to an everyday command in Project: copying and pasting data. Though paste likes to keep a low profile, in fact it’s the fourth most commonly used feature in Project. And while Project and Project Server offer many advanced reporting features, a very common form of “reporting” is pasting data into an email, Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation. And countless surveys and guidelines show that communication is a critical component of good project management. In Project 2010, we’ve gone “back to basics” in an effort to…

  • Project 2010: Introducing the Backstage view

    Jon Kaufthal
    20 Jan 2010 | 10:29 am
    Hi, it’s Jon K again. In this post, I’ll introduce Project 2010’s new Backstage view. The Backstage view is the new experience seen when you click on the File tab in Project 2010. While the other ribbon tabs focus on things you do in your project (add tasks, edit resources, change formatting), the Backstage view is focused on things you do to your project as a whole—for example, save, print, and share. The Backstage view is new across all Office apps for 2010, whereas the ribbon was a part of other Office applications for Office 2007 but is also new for Project 2010. In this post,…

  • PWA now stands for Project Web App

    Heather O'Cull
    15 Jan 2010 | 9:56 am
    For the Project 2010 release, we have changed the feature formerly known as “Project Web Access” to “Project Web App”. We have made this change to maintain consistency with other Office 2010 Web Apps and to reflect the increasingly rich feature set included with PWA beyond simply accessing data. Luckily for everyone, you can continue to just say PWA.
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    Clip Art and Media

  • The fat lady has sung

    camblog
    13 Jan 2010 | 11:07 am
    It’s all over here. We’ve moved our blog. Please go to our new home at http://blogs.office.com/b/templates_and_images/default.aspx.

  • Looking for something? See our new blog

    camblog
    7 Jan 2010 | 9:29 pm
    We’ve been getting reorganized over the holidays and decided to move. So if you’re wondering where to find us, mosey on over to our new blog. We’re just getting up to speed, but we’d like you to come along for the ride.

  • Enjoy your holidays

    camblog
    23 Dec 2009 | 3:56 am
    We’re off till after the new year. cheers!

  • We welcome our latest partner to Office Online: iCLIPART

    camblog
    22 Dec 2009 | 9:03 am
      iCLIPART.com is the largest royalty-free clipart site on the Internet with over 7.8 million clipart illustrations, photos, fonts, sounds, animations and web graphics. Most of the illustrations are available in 9 different vector and raster formats, including: .WMF and .JPG files. Look for the special section featured on our Clip Art Home page: The professionally produced photos are available up to 5,000 x 5,000 pixels at 300 dpi. Thousands of new images are added each month from some of the best artists in the world. With this many files to choose from, you are sure to find something…

  • Be a PowerPoint pro with iStockphoto images

    camblog
    8 Dec 2009 | 8:45 am
    I don’t know about you, but creating a PowerPoint presentation always takes longer than I expect it to, even with all the wonderful tools at hand. Sometimes I am just looking for something different to give my presentation that extra little polish. If you feel the same way, check out this article from our partner, iStockphoto, about how to punch up your PowerPoint presentations by using their fabulous images available on Office.com.  --Nancy
 
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    Brian Jones: Office Extensibility

  • Open XML SDK Code behind the Custom XML Markup Detection Tool

    BrianJones
    27 Jan 2010 | 9:12 am
    Recently on Gray's blog he posted about a scanning tool that can be used to detect custom XML markup in Word Open XML files (*.docx, *.docm, *.dotm, and *.dotx). The tool is built using the Open XML SDK and we wanted to take the opportunity to show you how the solution works in this blog. Solution The scenario we want to support is, given a directory, find all Word Open XML documents that contain custom XML markup (w:customXml elements). In order to accomplish this scenario we will need to take the following actions: Given a directory, get all Word Open XML files For each file found, open the…

  • Document Assembly: Merging Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Content Together

    BrianJones
    4 Jan 2010 | 8:49 am
    Document assembly seems to be a hot topic these days especially when combined with the power of SharePoint. Today, I want to show you a pretty rich document assembly solution that is able to take multiple Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents and merge them all together to form a final Word document. I showed this solution at both PDC and SPC, so I am going to take the opportunity in this blog to discuss some of the details around the solution. If you want to jump straight into the code, feel free to download the solution here. Scenario Imagine a scenario where I work for a company that…

  • Announcing the Release of the December 2009 CTP for the Open XML SDK

    BrianJones
    14 Dec 2009 | 3:09 pm
    I'm really happy to announce the 4th CTP for the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office! There were four major improvements we made to the SDK: Full support for the Office 2010 Open XML formats Office 2010 schema and semantic level validation General improvements based on a recent Open XML SDK usability study Open XML SDK tools improvement Full Support for the Office 2010 Open XML Formats With the latest CTP you are able to create, edit, and consume Office generated Open XML formats for either Office 2007 or Office 2010. Looking back at the original Open XML SDK architecture diagram I showed…

  • Extending the Reach of Excel Services with the Open XML SDK

    BrianJones
    3 Dec 2009 | 1:08 pm
    Note: Updated post to point to a YouTube video that is shorter than 10 minutes In Brian's last blog he talked about Open XML and Office Services as a one-two punch to complete many types of solutions. I am going to start writing some posts that showcase these two technologies working together. Excel is a great tool for connecting to multiple types of data sources, like databases or XML files. Unfortunately, Excel has no concept of connecting to other types of Office documents, like Word files. This fact is important because information workers are pumping out more and more Office documents…

  • Open XML SDK + Word Automation Services Presentation at PDC

    BrianJones
    23 Nov 2009 | 10:38 am
    I just got back from PDC and am excited to share with you guys the presentation, deck, and code samples I showed at my session. I also want to thank everyone who attended my session. Here is my recorded session: You can find my session deck here: http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/pdc09/ppt/PR09.pptx You can find all my code samples for the demos I showed here: http://zeyadrajabi.members.winisp.net/sourcecode/PDC%20Open%20XML%20demos.zip In Brian's last post, he gave a good overview of using the Open XML SDK and Office Services together. In the next couple of months I am going to start blogging…
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    Mark Harrison

  • Free Silverlight eLearning Courseware player

    9 Feb 2010 | 5:04 am
    Point8020 have decided to give their Silverlight eLearning Courseware player away for free. It allows you to display videos and other training resources (such as PPTs, PDFs, Docs, etc in a nice format like the following: http://www.point8020.com/SharePointEndUserTraining.aspx )The free software is called Point8020.CourseViewer and you can grab it from:http://www.point8020.com/services.aspxMark Harrison

  • SharePoint 2010 VM Download

    28 Jan 2010 | 1:13 pm
    Want to demonstrate the latest beta of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in an information worker scenario to customers? Download the two newest virtual machines (VM) with pre-configured versions of Office 2010 Beta and SharePoint 2010 Beta from the Microsoft Download Center.In order to run this demo you will need the following hardware:- Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled- Intel VT or AMD-V capable processor- 8 GB or more RAM- 50 GB of NTFS-formatted hard disk space required for installDownloadMark Harrison

  • SharePoint eMagazine

    19 Jan 2010 | 1:45 pm
     SharePoint eMagazine ... lots of great SharePoint 2010 content .Mark Harrison

  • KODU Game Lab download

    14 Jan 2010 | 1:46 pm
    KODU is a visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone.Originally designed as a learning tool for youngsters using Xbox 360, KODU is now available in a public beta for the PC.KODU downloadMark Harrison

  • 2010 CES Keynote Address

    7 Jan 2010 | 5:59 am
    Watch video of Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach delivering the opening keynote address for CES 2010.Mark Harrison
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    Arpan Shah's Blog

  • Some New SharePoint 2010 Content

    arpans
    28 Jan 2010 | 10:21 pm
    I wanted to quickly highlight some of the recent content we recently published: - You can download the SharePoint 2010 Virtual Machine here. - Check out the What's New in SharePoint 2010 for Developers clinic; a free 2-hour e-learning course - Check out the What's New in SharePoint 2010 for IT Pros clinic; it's a 2-hour free e-learning course! If you’re looking for a good list of readiness/training content, I recommend taking a look at this post. I try to keep this up-to-date. I generally also tweet when new content is available. You can follow me @arpanshah.

  • SharePoint 2010 Webcast Deck

    arpans
    21 Jan 2010 | 10:10 am
    I just did a SharePoint 2010 webcast and wanted to share the deck I presented. You can find it @ http://cid-ca582f2bc3ad1590.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Presentations/SharePoint%202010/sp2010.pptx I will update this post with a pointer to the recording when (if) it’s available.

  • SharePoint Online in the 2010 wave

    arpans
    12 Jan 2010 | 10:32 pm
    I’m a big fan of SharePoint Online along with over one million other users out there. It’s a reliable, convenient service that allows companies to take advantage of SharePoint without having to host it themselves. It’s software-as-a-service at its best.   SharePoint Online today, based on SharePoint 2007, does a good job providing some of the core SharePoint capabilities. In the second half of this calendar year, SharePoint Online will be updated to SharePoint 2010 at which point it will be even more powerful & provide even greater parity with SharePoint 2010…

  • SharePoint 2010 End-User Training

    arpans
    7 Jan 2010 | 8:04 am
    Point8020 has released free SharePoint 2010 end user training that you can access from http://www.point8020.com/SharePointEndUserTraining.aspx. It includes 50 short videos for end-users & site administrators covering a number of different common tasks. These videos are consumable, easy to navigate and free! I highly recommend checking it out. Point8020 plans to release many more end-user training videos covering all aspects of SharePoint later this half!

  • SharePoint 2010 Upgrade

    arpans
    29 Dec 2009 | 7:39 am
    I went to Bangalore, India, a couple weeks ago as part of the Microsoft team that hosted SharePoint 2010 Ignite Developer. I had an opportunity to meet 75+ sharp developers from various partner organizations like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL, Cognizant & Persistent just to name a few. As part of a summary session I delivered, I emphasized the upgrade options available along with 2010 system requirements & developer environment options that I wanted to highlight here (slides available here) . Upgrade Check out the upgrade & migration resource center @…
 
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    John R. Durant's WebLog

  • Excel 2010 XML Maps

    johnrdurant
    29 Jan 2010 | 10:21 am
    We introduced Excel XML Map objects in Excel 2003. We carried those forward into Excel 2007 and, of course, into Excel 2010. I recently stumbled on an Excel developer blog by Roy Maclean, and I was really glad to see him exploring a scenario and sharing his findings. It'll be great to see his Part 2 of that. Basically, Roy shows using Excel front-end receiver/exporter for XML-based data. It receives data from XML that is mapped to a schema. It can then pump the data back out in a meaningful context because of the schema mapping. If you are new to XML Mapping in Excel, then here are a few…

  • New Office Developer Guild Logos

    johnrdurant
    28 Jan 2010 | 10:16 am
    The ODG logos have been updated with the new Office 2010 brand logo. Also, by request, I have added two smaller sizes of the logo for easier inclusion on Web sites and blogs. Below each image I've provided a corresponding friendly URL. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9709888 http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9709887 http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9709886   If you haven't joined the ODG, go to www.facebook.com/officedeveloperguild and join. I make regular updates there, and I often give a little insight into the behind scenes at Microsoft. Technorati Tags: Office…

  • New Office 2010 Developer Video

    johnrdurant
    26 Jan 2010 | 4:02 pm
    We just published a new video on MSDN that provides a great starting point for understanding what we're talking about when we speak about "Office 2010 productivity solutions". You can watch the video (~7 minutes long) by clicking the image below: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9709532 At the end of the video I discuss where you can go to get started with developing Office solutions. Tell me what you think! Technorati Tags: Office 2010,Developer,VBA,Office,Macro,Microsoft,Productivity Rock Thought of the Day: Kraftwerk What could a band from the 70's have to do with Facebook, eHarmony, and…

  • Excel VBA Cells and Hyperlinks

    johnrdurant
    7 Jan 2010 | 1:54 pm
    I track some information in Excel, and one of the columns is for a link to some location (blogs, Web sites, etc.). One of the things is that I don't want the URL to appear as it creates display issues (as shown here). I really want it to look like this: I prefer to just display the word "Link" that is marked up with the actual link. Problem is-it's time consuming to go through and do this to many dozens of links manually as I work along. It's way faster for me to write the following lines of VBA and quickly solve the problem. Now, I keep adding rows and just re-run the macro periodically to…

  • Application Compatibility and Microsoft Office Solutions (+ another installment of “Rock Thought”)

    johnrdurant
    9 Dec 2009 | 12:32 pm
    When I was a consultant my customers ranged from small companies to big Fortune 100 enterprises. No matter where a business fit in the spectrum I encountered a lot of Office solution code. But, it was sometimes difficult to figure out how many solutions were in play within an organization. And, as new Office versions rolled out, we needed to determine what, if anything, in the existing solutions would be impacted by changes and innovations in the new Office releases. My experience is not unique by any means. Developers and IT departments need to be able to evaluate a variety of productivity…
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    Office Development with Visual Studio

  • Add a Custom Task Pane to Project 2010 (Norm Estabrook)

    VSTO Team
    2 Feb 2010 | 1:21 pm
    Good news! Project 2010 supports custom task panes! Bad News! Getting one to appear in a Project 2010 is not so obvious. Good News! It’s a lot easier than I make it sound. In this post, I’ll show you how to add a custom task pane to Project 2010 by using a Project 2010 or Project 2007 project template in Visual Studio. The “skinny” on task panes in Microsoft Office Project Project 2007 does not support custom task panes. Project 2010 does support custom task panes. The thing that might throw you off is that the Project 2010 project template in Visual Studio does not expose that cool…

  • VSTO 2010 Runtime components explained (Aaron Cathcart)

    VSTO Team
    21 Jan 2010 | 5:26 pm
      During development of the VSTO 2010 Runtime we added a feature, dubbed Install on Demand, to support VSTO customizations that target both .NET Framework 3.5 and .NET Framework 4 without enforcing installation of both frameworks prior to installation of VSTO 2010. To facilitate this we needed to break the runtime into 3 components as shown in this diagram. VSTO Loader can be viewed as the native component of the VSTO 2010 Runtime that communicates with Office. It has no managed dependency and is the only component of the VSTO 2010 Runtime that is guaranteed to be “turned on” no…

  • Northwind Office Business Application Updated for Visual Studio, Office & SharePoint 2010 (Beth Massi)

    VSTO Team
    19 Jan 2010 | 8:29 pm
    Early last year we built a business application for order management for Northwind Traders on the Office and SharePoint platform using Visual Studio 2008 and Office & SharePoint 2007. Recently I started releasing articles on my blog that show how to upgrade the VS2008 version to VS2010: Migrating an Outlook Client to .NET Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010 Build WPF Data Controls for Outlook Addins Easily with VS2010 Migrating a 2007 Workflow to Visual Studio & SharePoint 2010 Today I updated the sample with some more goodies including some SharePoint 2010 web parts that I’ll write…

  • VSTO Performance: Delay Loading and You (Stephen Peters)

    VSTO Team
    7 Jan 2010 | 11:04 am
    There have been a couple of blog posts about delay loading VSTO addins, and with Dev10 being released soon, it’s a good time to expand on the subject a little bit. This has been covered before, and I’ll avoid spending too much time here on topics that have already been covered.  For an overview of delay loading, please read these posts. http://blogs.msdn.com/andreww/archive/2008/07/14/demand-loading-vsto-add-ins.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/andreww/archive/2008/04/19/delay-loading-the-clr-in-office-add-ins.aspx There are many reasons why you would want to delay load your addin, the…

  • Migrating an Outlook Solution to .NET Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010 (Norm Estabrook)

    VSTO Team
    16 Dec 2009 | 2:33 pm
    Visual Studio can help migrate your Outlook solutions from .NET Framework 3.5 to the .NET Framework 4. However, you still have to do a few things manually to make it all work.  Beth Massi converts an Outlook Solution that targets the .NET Framework 3.5 to an Outlook Solution that targets the .NET Framework 4 client profile in this very cool and informative blog entry - Migrating an Outlook Client to .NET Framework 4 in Visual Studio 2010.
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    MikeKelly's WebLog

  • Don’t Assume

    MikeKelly
    7 Feb 2010 | 1:38 pm
    Just fixed a bug where a query being issued from my service to Azure table storage was returning no rows.  I have Cerbrata’s most excellent Cloud Storage Studio running in another window and when I issued the query in that window, it returned 14 rows.  Why isn’t my app working? After poking around and trying a couple of things, I decided to issue exactly  the same query from Cloud Storage Studio as my app was issuing.  To do this, I fired up Fiddler and ran the app to capture the GET request from my app; it looks like this: (((PartitionKey eq 'WSF') and (TerminalFrom…

  • Timed Update to a Page

    MikeKelly
    4 Feb 2010 | 10:50 am
    One of the features in my ferry app is to show the time remaining until the next ferry.  This simple feature took me on a winding road through AJAX, System.Timers.Timer, Javascript, etc.  It seems like such a simple thing to do, and eventually I hit on the simple approach which is the META tag.  The requirements are: 1. The default.aspx page can be in one of two states – either the user is logged in, in which case we know what ferry information to display, or they aren’t. 2. If they are logged in, we show the ferry time like this, with the elapsed time from now until the…

  • Updates to my Azure Ferry App

    MikeKelly
    4 Feb 2010 | 12:25 am
    I’ve been working on getting my ferry times app running and have recently been motivated to step it up.  I’m submitting the app to a contest that Microsoft is running for partners to encourage developing Windows Azure apps.  Here a few random things I’ve learned while I’ve been tuning up the app. The AspProviders sample pretty much works now with the November 2009 PDC release of the platform.  I just downloaded the additional samples, pulled the AspProviders files from the sample directory into a new project in my solution, built it and then incorporated the required…

  • Backing up a MacBook Running Both Windows 7 and Mac OS X

    MikeKelly
    4 Jan 2010 | 10:19 am
    I have a MacBook on which I use Boot Camp to dual-boot to Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard.  I would like to back up both systems to a single 500 GB USB drive.  I poked around a bit to figure out how to do this, and didn’t find anything (the closest is this post which explains how to do it to a Windows Home Server) so I figured I’d explain how I got this to work. The problem is that Windows wants the volume to be NTFS for its built in Windows 7 backup program to work, and Mac OS X wants the volume to be a formatted Mac HFS volume – so when I booted into Mac OS X after…

  • Everyone I’ve Sent Mail To

    MikeKelly
    20 Dec 2009 | 9:13 pm
    For a farewell mail to my colleagues at Microsoft (I’ve decided to move on, but will continue contributing to this blog), I was worried I might miss someone.   Using the arguable presumption that the “important people” were those who I’d sent mail to, I figured I would write an Outlook macro to go through my Sent Items and pull out all the email addresses.  That turned out to be pretty straightforward; here is the code (I don't claim this is the best way to do it, but it does work):   Sub GetSentItems() Dim eml As MailItem Dim nsMyNameSpace As NameSpace Dim…
 
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    Murray Sargent: Math in Office

  • Keyboard Entry of Subscripts and Superscripts

    MurrayS
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:23 pm
    The Send-a-Smile and Send-a-Frown feedback from Office beta users is very useful for finding out where we’ve done right and wrong things with the new Office. From time to time I’ll post thoughts on some of the feedback that pertains to the math facility. The present post discusses the hot keys for entering subscripts and superscripts in ordinary text and how they might be implemented in math zones. First please note that the quickest way to enter z with a subscript q in a math zone is to type z_q followed by a space or operator like +. This inserts a math subscript object with z as the…

  • Negated Operators

    MurrayS
    5 Feb 2010 | 2:11 pm
    Sometimes you need to enter a negated operator like ≠. If you’re a C/C++ programmer, you might think that != should map to ≠, since that’s what != means in those languages (and some others). But since in mathematics ! means factorial, this choice is a bad idea for inputting ≠ into mathematical text. You can type in \ne to get ≠, but there’s the simpler combination: /=. In the linear format used in Microsoft Office math, / is used for “stacked” fractions. But /= building up to a fraction with an empty denominator followed by an equal sign isn’t very useful. Also if you…

  • RichEdit Versions 1.0 through 3.0

    MurrayS
    12 Jan 2010 | 5:47 pm
    Digging through old doc files, I ran across the following summary of RichEdit up through Version 3.0. It’s more detailed than my post on RichEdit Versions, so it might be of interest to history buffs, anyhow. And it does describe the riched20.dll that still ships with Windows, mostly for purposes of backward compatibility. I wrote this document back in 1998 in preparing for an internal seminar on RichEdit 3.0. It even mentions that RichEdit 3.x would be an ideal development environment for WYSIWYG editing of built-up mathematical expressions! Sure hit that nail on the head. Naturally…

  • Special Capabilities of a Math Font

    MurrayS
    11 Jan 2010 | 6:31 pm
    A fairly common inquiry is how a program can use and access the many special glyph variants of a math font. It’s clearly a much more intricate interaction than encountered in most text applications. This post outlines how the Office math layout software interacts with the Cambria Math font and, in principle, with any other math font that has similar capabilities. More specifically, this post describes the functionality of the special library, mathfont.dll, which is shipped with Office 2007/2010. This library, in turn, interacts with the OpenType and OpenType-like tables in a math font.

  • High Fonts and Math Fonts

    MurrayS
    1 Dec 2009 | 3:45 pm
    Math fonts differ from other fonts not only in their extensive coverage of math operators, symbols, and math alphanumerics, but also in the large number of glyph variants they have to support two sizes of sub/superscripts and many sizes of stretchable characters like parentheses and brackets. Some such glyphs can be many times as high as the normal line height. The name given to fonts that contain glyphs larger than the line height is a “high font”. Fancy fonts like Gabriola have elegant swash variants that look great on wedding invitations and the like. Some of these glyph variants have…
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    SGriffin's MAPI Internals

  • January 2010 Release of MFCMAPI

    Stephen Griffin
    25 Jan 2010 | 5:27 am
    The January 2010 Release (build 6.0.0.1017) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com. I added some more Smart View parsers and fixed a few bugs, notably an issue with named props and some GDI leaks. Here's a change list - see the Issue Tracker on Codeplex for more details, or look at the code: Smart View: Rule Conditions – view the condition on an extended rule Smart View: Entry IDs – added the wrapped entry IDs that show up in distribution lists Named Prop Cache: Fixed a problem handling the oddball named props that Blackberry creates. Prop Names: Synchronized our prop list with the protocol…

  • Throttling Exchange 2010

    Stephen Griffin
    7 Jan 2010 | 7:25 am
    This came up in a case and the cause wasn’t immediately obvious. The customer used MAPI to open a number of mailboxes using OpenMsgStore. They found that if they tried to multithread their code, they’d open a few mailboxes, then they’d start getting MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER. The odd thing was the same code running against Exchange 2007 did not experience this problem. It turns out what they were running in to was Exchange 2010’s new client throttling feature. The purpose of this feature is to prevent a single client from causing a Denial of Service on the Exchange server by throwing…

  • Can’t CopyTo a PST

    Stephen Griffin
    17 Dec 2009 | 2:32 pm
    We recently had a customer who was copying messages around using CopyTo. They found that for certain messages, if the target message store was a PST, they’d get MAPI_E_NO_ACCESS (0x80070005). They saw this for the same messages every time, when other messages would copy to the same PST just fine. When I debugged the failure, I found the root of the problem was that the source message had an attachment with the property 0x67100003 set on it. The PST provider does not allow this property to be set on a messages in its store, so any attempt to set it returns the error MAPI_E_NO_ACCESS. When…

  • PR_SEARCH_KEY and Draft Messages

    Stephen Griffin
    14 Dec 2009 | 7:57 am
    It used to be that if you wanted to track a message through various Object Model events such as NewInspector and ItemSend, one way to do it was to grab PR_SEARCH_KEY. A customer recently discovered that this doesn’t always work after applying a recent hotfix. Before applying the hotfix, PR_SEARCH_KEY would remain unchanged during the various events. After applying the hotfix, if they were in cached mode they would see the search key change during the send event, but only if the user saved the message, or autosave kicked in, before submitting. The hotfix in question is 973404. More…

  • MAPI Now Likes Exchange 2010

    Stephen Griffin
    10 Dec 2009 | 7:23 am
    We just announced a new release of the MAPI Download that’s pretty much mandatory if you want to work with Exchange 2010. You’ll also need to get and apply Rollup 1 (RU1) for Exchange 2010. Details about the MAPI Download: The first version of the MAPI download which is compatible with Exchange 2010 is 6.5.8147 If you already have a version of the MAPI Download installed, you must unininstall it before installing the new version. The installer does not upgrade, nor does it warn you if you try to install it without uninstalling the previous version. The new MAPI Download fixes a number of…
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    Office OFFline Comic Strip

  • See you on the other side

    David Salaguinto
    12 Jan 2010 | 1:50 pm
    In case you’re wondering where I’ve been, I haven’t died (quite yet). I’ve just been working on something new, namely this: The all-new Microsoft Office Blog I’ll now be posting my comics alongside other awesome Office blogs, like the Crabby Office Lady, the Templates and Images blog, and Office Casual. Does this mean I’m a legitimate cartoonist now? Nah. I’ll always be an “illegitimate” cartoonist. I’ll just have more work to do and less time to do it. It should make for some interesting comics. NOTE: If you subscribe to my comics via my old RSS (or Atom) feed, you may…

  • Clues + PCs =

    David Salaguinto
    15 Dec 2009 | 9:34 am
    Photo by Ernst Moeksis Today’s Office OFFline comic was inspired by the sleep feature in Windows 7, the “I’m a PC” campaign, and my wife. Who in your life is a PC?

  • Hell – Temperature =

    David Salaguinto
    14 Dec 2009 | 9:49 am
    Today’s Office OFFline comic was inspired by the news that a Mozilla exec is urging Firefox users to ditch Google for Bing. (Hat tip to my friend, Bob, for the link.) Sorry for the lack of comics lately. I was on vacation, and then I was sick, and then I was lame.

  • 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?
 
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    Office 2007 Help - The New Paperclip

  • Clear formatting in Word 2007

    The New Paperclip
    27 May 2010 | 10:09 am
    Have you ever change the font size or the font type or the font colour one too many times and realised that it would be far easier just to start again? Well instead of deleting your text and having to retype it, you can use a feature of Word 2007 called “Clear Formatting”. As the name suggests, “Clear Formatting” will remove all the formatting you have applied to your text, and set it back to the default paragraph style. You can find the “Clear Formatting” button on the “Home” tab of the ribbon, in the “Font” group.  Just select the text you want to clear up, and then…

  • Create PowerPoint slides designed specifically for A4 or Letter printing

    The New Paperclip
    25 May 2010 | 9:58 am
    Usually PowerPoint presentations are built to be delivered on-screen.  Using the print options you can create handouts and notes pages that you can then print out and hand to your audience.  But did you know that you can use PowerPoint to design presentations built specifically to be delivered in the print format.  One slide per A4 or Letter page (and not a cropped or zoomed version of an onscreen slide) To do so, all you need to do is change the page size of the PowerPoint slides in your deck. 1) Click on the “Design” tab 2) Click on “Page Setup” in the “Page…

  • Zoom to Page Width in Word 2007

    The New Paperclip
    23 May 2010 | 10:05 am
    Do you want your page to stretch right across your monitor?  By using “Zoom to Page Width” you can do just that. To Zoom to Page Width in Word 2007: 1) Click on the “View” tab in the ribbon 2) Look for the “Zoom” group 3) Click on “Page Width”   ‘till next time! TNP Related posts:Make working in Excel 2007 easier on your eyes! Zoom to SelectionAdd a Border to a Page in Word 2007Change your Page Orientation (Portrait vs Landscape) in Word 2007

  • Turn on (or off) sound when an email arrives in Outlook 2007

    The New Paperclip
    19 May 2010 | 8:53 am
    Are you really annoyed by the sound that Outlook makes when an email arrives in your (or more likely your colleagues) inbox.  Or do you need to know instantly when there is a new message addressed to you? Whichever side of the fence you sit on, the chime or sound email notification is a configurable feature of Outlook 2007. To turn on or turn of audible email notifications in Outlook 2007: 1) Click on “Tools” in the menu” 2) Click on “Options” 3) Make sure you are on the “Preferences” tab 4) Click on “E-mail Options…” 5) Click on “Advanced E-Mail Options…” 6)…

  • Freeze the Top Row in Excel 2007

    The New Paperclip
    17 May 2010 | 10:33 am
    Do you want to be able to always see the headings of your columns whilst you scroll through your Excel 2007 spreadsheet? To do that, you need to “Freeze” the top row of your sheet. To Freeze the top row in Excel 2007: 1) Click on the “View” tab of the ribbon 2) Look for the “Window” group 3) Click on “Freeze Panes” 4) Click on “Freeze Top Row”   To unfreeze the top row, just repeat the process above, but instead of clicking “Freeze Top Row” in step 4), just click on “Unfreeze Panes” ‘till next time! TNP Related posts:Change Slide Orientation in PowerPoint…
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    Microsoft Word Tips & Tricks

  • 4 Points to Consider when Selecting a Style Guide

    iawalsh
    3 Feb 2010 | 4:49 am
    Q: I’m setting up a Technical Writing Dept. for a Financial Services company. What is the best style guide to start out with? We have no internal guidelines. This will need to be useful for both beginners and also more experienced tech writers A: The benefit of adopting a style guide is that it puts guidelines in place to ensure consistency across all documents you deliver. While style guides don’t make poor writers better, they’re a step in the right direction if you want to improve the quality of your documentation! IBM’s Handbook for Writers and Editors How Style…

  • How Al Gore Got His Groove Back & The Fine Art of Creating Great Presentations

    iawalsh
    21 Jan 2010 | 2:24 am
    Do you like speaking in public? It’s the last thing most of us want do. So I was surprised to read how Al Gore, an experienced public speaker, reached out to Nancy Duarte to improve his public-speaking skills. Here are a few tips for the next time you have to give a presentation. The Science of Great Presentations Nancy Duarte knows how to make killer presentations. She founded Duarte Design, Inc., a firm that helps everyone from Google to Al Gore master public speaking. You can read her book slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations here. In an interview with Guy…

  • What Macaulay Culkin Can Teach You About XML-Based Technical Authoring Tools

    iawalsh
    20 Jan 2010 | 6:31 pm
    Remember Macaulay Culkin? The child star of Home Alone peaked very early and, despite many attempts, never managed to make the same impact as an adult. Larry Kunz asks if a similar fate awaits DITA, the one-time golden child of the tech comms industry. Larry says that last week another technical writer asserted that DITA has “jumped the shark.” “It’s not a new idea. I’ve heard other people say that DITA has already seen its best days, that it’s struggling to remain relevant in a world that’s passed it by. I was amused, I admit, because it was the first time I’d seen DITA…

  • Using Google Wave to Write Technical Documentation in Real Time

    iawalsh
    18 Jan 2010 | 8:33 pm
    Maeve asks on LinkedIn how we can use Google Wave to write technical documents. Well, the first consideration is that Google Wave is not designed as a tech authoring tool but for collaboration and ‘almost’ real-time information exchange. Saying that, it does offer many benefits if you need to plan/coordinate/review documents in a networked environment. Here are some ideas. Where Google Wave Can Help You Write Document If you look at the lifecycle of a technical document, you can see that there are several phases where documents (and diagrams) get reviewed, approved, edited etc – nothing…

  • How to Convert Word Tables Back into Plain Text

    iawalsh
    22 Nov 2009 | 5:35 pm
    Let’s say you have a table that you want to convert back into text. How do you do it? I write technical documents for a living. Part of my work is extracting text from excel files and other documents where technical information is located. Sometimes this is text inside tables that I need to get out and reformat. What’s the quickest way to do this? 1.    Open Word and select the Table you want to convert to Text. 2.    When you do this, the Layout tab appears in the ribbon. 3.    Click the Layout tab 4.    Click Convert to Text. The table is magically converted into unformatted…
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