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,…
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The MacBU lands in Denver for EDUCAUSE
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Office 2004 Mainstream Support Has Been Extended
12 Oct 2009 | 9:10 amA 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
6 Oct 2009 | 1:10 pmToday, 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… -
Free Office for Mac 2008 Video Training from lynda.com
1 Oct 2009 | 10:10 amThose of you who read the announcement of the new Office for Mac 2008 Business Edition know that this new edition contains seven hours of lynda.com training videos. What you may not know is that Mactopia now contains 25 training videos also from lynda.com. While there is some overlap, these two sets of videos are not the same. So, even Business Edition customers will benefit from watching the lynda.com videos on Mactopia. For many people, watching a video tutorial is the easiest way to learn about Office, since you are able to see the feature in action, in a real-life…
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Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 for Developers + New Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Centers
19 Oct 2009 | 2:22 pmIt’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!
16 Oct 2009 | 11:39 pmI 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
1 Oct 2009 | 6:36 pmIt’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
28 Aug 2009 | 2:28 pmZeyad 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… -
Are you an Office Developer? Identify yourself as a member of the “Office Developer Guild”
31 Jul 2009 | 2:00 pmThis will be interesting for all of you who are into Office development: As Office developers, we can start identifying ourselves as active members of the community by joining the “Office Developer Guild” spearheaded by John Durant. The developer community for Microsoft Office grand and healthy. And, the knowledge and expertise in our community is pretty vast and deep. To make it easier for us to stay alert about events, up-coming content, etc. and more easily share ideas we now have the “Office Developer Guild”—a group of like-minded professional friends on Facebook. Additional…
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Office OFFline comic pick of the week for 11/6/09
6 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pmThe Office OFFline comic pick this week 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...(read more) -
Who’s falling for Internet scams? Not my readers
5 Nov 2009 | 6:00 amWebster's Dictionary defines a scam as "a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation." And that's it. There are no secondary definitions. It's pretty simple, really: Someone is trying to bamboozle you. We all know them: The e-mails that come to...(read more) -
Top Templates: Big Idea business cards for Word 2007
4 Nov 2009 | 7:00 amMake your own business cards with this customizable template submitted by ingternet and featured in this Top Templates video , Add your own info, tweak the colors, font, or design if you want, and then print the results on special Avery business card...(read more) -
Watch Top Templates with Doug + Ron: Certificates of Completion
2 Nov 2009 | 4:39 amOur series focusing on templates folks like you have submitted to Office.com continues. How many templates do we have? So many that if you train on a forklift, here’s a Certificate of Completion for you. It’s by Jeremy H. Top Templates with Doug and Ron:...(read more) -
Office OFFline comic pick of the week for 10/30/09
30 Oct 2009 | 12:00 pmPhoto by techedlive The Office OFFline comic pick this week started out as a tweet and was inspired by Halloween, of course, and all the great reviews Windows 7 has been getting. What are you wearing for Halloween? tweetmeme_style = 'compact';...(read more)
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Office Web Applications – half measures for now
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The new OWA
Microsoft has two products called OWA – which one is which?
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DSC Continuing Ed offers Excel 2007 Charts & Graphs class
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Microsoft Office Battles Google in the Cloud
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IRS Has $4.2 Million In Undelivered Refunds For NJ Taxpayers
6 Nov 2009 | 12:17 pm" The Internal Revenue Service is looking for 3,075 New Jersey taxpayers who can claim their share of undelivered refund checks totaling about $4.2 million. -
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2009: six bulletins
6 Nov 2009 | 7:42 amAccording to the Microsoft Security Response Center , Microsoft will issue six Security Bulletins on Tuesday, and it will host a webcast to address customer questions about the bulletins the following day . -
Malkinware announces Reference Tracker 1.5 for Mac Os X
6 Nov 2009 | 3:15 amMalkinware today is delighted to announce Reference Tracker 1.5, an update to their popular academic reference manager and research tool for Mac OS X. Reference Tracker is an indispensable tool for writers, researchers or students.
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Google News: Microsoft Office
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DocVerse Puts Google Docs-Like Collaboration Inside Microsoft Office - Mashable (blog)
6 Nov 2009 | 8:10 pmMashable (blog)DocVerse Puts Google Docs-Like Collaboration Inside Microsoft OfficeMashable (blog)There are already a lot of options, including Google DocsGoogle Docs, Adobe AcrobatAdobe Acrobat.com, and even Microsoft Office 2010 to some extent. -
Microsoft's foray in online services - India Today
6 Nov 2009 | 7:52 pmWorld NewsMicrosoft's foray in online servicesIndia Today Live Meeting (for conferencing), Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services and Microsoft Office Communications Online (for instant messaging and presence). Microsoft to add sharepoint access to Live@eduZDNet (blog)Access Office Live Workspace or sharepoint from Office 2008 MacWebWorkerDaily (blog)Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite prices slashedArs TechnicaTechShout! (blog)all 65 news articles » -
Google's Obsession With Microsoft Burns Hotter - ChannelWeb
6 Nov 2009 | 4:16 pmGoogle's Obsession With Microsoft Burns HotterChannelWeb fact that Google is running a billboard advertising campaign that focuses specifically on Microsoft Office's shortcomings is evidence to the contrary. and more » -
Click-to-Run: 'Streaming' Microsoft Office 2010? - OS News
6 Nov 2009 | 2:38 pmClick-to-Run: 'Streaming' Microsoft Office 2010?OS NewsClick-to-Run is a new technology Microsoft are introducing to allow you to test out Office 2010 quickly and easily, by literally streaming the app to your -
Web Office Suites: Complementary and Coopetive Technologies - WebWorkerDaily (blog)
6 Nov 2009 | 1:10 pmWeb Office Suites: Complementary and Coopetive TechnologiesWebWorkerDaily (blog)I do believe that a web office suite and Microsoft Office don't have to be “natural enemies in the wild” and can coexist to offer web workers, and more »
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The Microsoft Office Word Team
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Introducing Word Automation Services
26 Oct 2009 | 4:30 amOver 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
17 Sep 2009 | 4:36 pmToday 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
9 Sep 2009 | 4:00 pmWhen 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
24 Aug 2009 | 11:06 amA 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… -
8.20.09 Shared Office Links
20 Aug 2009 | 7:28 pmA lot of great stuff from the shared Office teams involving Word over the past few weeks, and I hope you like the new look of the blog. Protected view in Word 2010 – overview of a new security feature in Word 2010/Office 2010 Viewing Word documents in the browser and which browsers support the Word Web App Translating parts of a Word document and translating entire Word documents How to type in other languages in Word 2010 The Open XML SDK and Fluent UI Extensibility - Jonathan Bailor (MS)
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Google Blog Search: Microsoft Office
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PowerPlugs Ultimate Combo 2007 for Microsoft Office 2003 ...
6 Nov 2009 | 11:18 pmPowerPlugs Ultimate Combo 2007 for Microsoft Office 2003 Rapidshare Megaupload Full Download Links. find more Links on Filefactory, Megashare, Netload, -
FS All microsoft office 2007 keys $2 - Cheating Network
6 Nov 2009 | 10:55 pmi have between 40 - 50 of the following office 2007 keys all for sale $2 each! Office Professional 2007 Office Professional Plus 2007 Office Ultimate. -
DOWNLOAD: Free MS Press eBook – “7 Development Projects for ...
6 Nov 2009 | 9:14 pmDOWNLOAD: Free MS Press eBook – “7 Development Projects for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services Version 3.0” - Windows Live. -
PowerPlugs Ultimate Combo 2007 for Microsoft Office 2003
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Movies N Hacks- Full Fast Free Downloads: Microsoft Office 2010 ...
6 Nov 2009 | 5:19 pmMicrosoft Office 2010 gives you rich and powerful new ways to deliver your best work - whether you re at work, home, or school - on a computer, Web browser, or Smartphone. Grab your audience s attention and inspire them with your ideas ...
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Macros-How to Create a Macro in Excel
6 Nov 2009 | 3:47 pmYou have learned how to create Macros in Microsoft Word from the previous posts, now is the time to learn how to create a macro in Microsoft Excel. If you understand the process in Word, it is almost the same process in Excel. Most people do not understand how easy it is to create a macro and how useful it is to improve the speed of your office functions. It is important to fix your macro button on the Quick Access toolbar for easy access. You may create different macros for different tasks, especially the ones you perform regularly. This tutorial was taken from the… -
Web Office Suites: Complementary and Coopetive Technologies
6 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pmMy recent post “5 Web Office Considerations: Beyond the Buzz” garnered some thought-provoking comments, which got me pondering on the proper place for the web office suite (whether it is ThinkFree, Zoho or Google Apps (s goog)) in today’s world. As a technical writer by trade, I have fairly strong opinions as to how a web office suite can fit into the workflow of a team publishing moderately complex documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. I do believe that a web office suite and Microsoft Office (s msft) don’t have to be “natural enemies in the wild”… -
Microsoft Word 2003 Tutorial
6 Nov 2009 | 6:49 amIn this tutorial we are planning to provide complete Microsoft word 2003 which includes file management,Set AutoRecover and Automatic File Backup,search,formatting,Footnotes & Endnotes,hyperlinks,margins,Table,Images. File Management: Create a New File Select File, then New Select Blank Document. Click OK OR click the sheet of paper icon at very left end of standard toolbar. Open an Existing File Select File, then Open In the Look in box at top of Open window, press the down arrow key (which opens a drop-down menu), then find and select the drive & folder where document is located. -
Access Office Live Workspace or SharePoint from Office 2008 Mac
5 Nov 2009 | 11:00 amMicrosoft collaboration software is the typical corporate tool of choice, which, by extension, means that the Windows version of Microsoft Office (s msft) was the office productivity suite of choice. However, a recent update to Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac now enables Mac users to access both Microsoft SharePoint sites and Office Live Workspace. While many may consider SharePoint to be not exactly “Mac friendly” just yet, this is definitely a step in the right direction. The Mac user must first be set up with access to the SharePoint site or Office Live Workspace by the local admin… -
Use Excel to calculate the number of working days you have to complete your projects
4 Nov 2009 | 7:28 amAuthor: Mary Ann Richardson [Source: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/msoffice/?p=591&tag=leftCol;post-611] You don’t need to count out days on a calendar to find out how many days you have to complete a project. Excel’s NETWORKDAYS function can calculate it for you — without requiring you to work weekends or holidays. To set up a worksheet that will calculate the number of working days excluding weekends and holidays from a project’s start date to its due date, follow these steps: Enter the headings for Project, Start Date, End Date, and Work Days as shown. Select B2:C2.
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Microsoft Excel
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Excel Services in SharePoint 2010 REST API Syntax
5 Nov 2009 | 9:08 pmThanks to Christian Stich for putting together this series on the REST API. As we saw in the previous post, using the Excel Services REST API is as simple as specifying a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) in your web browser. In this post we’ll walk through the details of the URI syntax. We start out with a simple Excel workbook stored on a SharePoint 2010 server at the following URL: http://contoso/Finance/Shared%20Documents/Tax.xlsx This example workbook contains two named ranges, a chart, a table and a PivotTable. In order to create a URI that can be used to access the REST… -
Simple Access to Spreadsheet Data Using the Excel Services 2010 REST API
4 Nov 2009 | 9:43 pmThanks to Christian Stich for putting together this series on the REST API. Beginning our journey on all things Excel Services 2010, I thought I’d start off with a feature that’s been getting a lot of buzz lately since its introduction at the SharePoint Conference. What is it? The Excel Services 2010 REST API is a new programmability framework that allows for easy discovery of and access to data and objects within a spreadsheet. “Programmability” is almost a bit of a misnomer because in its simplest incarnation it doesn’t require any knowledge of programming to use. If you can craft… -
Excel Services 2010 Overview
3 Nov 2009 | 6:30 pmThanks to Steve Tullis for putting together this post. Before delving into Excel Services 2010, I want to recap a point that some readers may not be aware of. The Excel team is delivering two browser-based solutions as part of the Office 2010 wave of products. The quick synopsis - here are the two solutions: Excel Services: Version two of our real-time, interactive, Excel-based reporting and dashboard capabilities which ship as part of SharePoint Server 2010. Also included are APIs which enable rich business application development. Excel Web App: The companion to the Excel client… -
Excel Add-In for Manipulating Points on Charts (MPOC)
2 Nov 2009 | 2:34 pmOverview In Excel 2007, the ability to directly resize or reposition points on the chart was deprecated. This feature was sometimes referred to as "Graphical Goal Seek." For example, in Excel 2003 a user could click on a data point in a column chart twice which would surface handles that could be used to resize the columns. Over the last couple of years we have received a lot of feedback from customers indicating that this was a valuable feature for some scenarios. However, we were not able to react in time to roll this feature back into Excel 2010 but we are evaluating how to bring this back… -
PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010 – The Business User’s Perspective
29 Oct 2009 | 12:03 amThis article continues the series on PowerPivot that started with an overview as well as an introduction to PowerPivot for Excel 2010. We’ll now focus on the support PowerPivot provides for collaboration. Frequently, business users need to share applications they create on their desktops with a workgroup. As it turns out, SharePoint provides a great platform that is critical for realizing the overarching goal of extending business intelligence technology to an organization: Great feature set for collaboration: Given that PowerPivot data is stored within an Excel workbook, whatever support…
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Microsoft Office Outlook Team
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Outlook .pst file format and interoperability
29 Oct 2009 | 10:45 amThis week, the Outlook product team hosted a .pst file format interoperability event here on the Microsoft campus in Redmond. As we announced on the Interoperability @ Microsoft blog, our team plans to release a specification of the .pst file format to the public. This week’s interoperability event is part of a series of steps that we are taking to gather feedback from industry partners and experts on preliminary drafts of the specification. If you are not familiar with the underpinnings of Outlook, .pst files are one type of data file that Outlook uses to save user data such as e-mail… -
Unified Messaging Improvements
27 Oct 2009 | 4:00 pmMicrosoft Office Outlook 2007 delivered the first version of our Unified Messaging (UM) experience from the Microsoft Exchange and Outlook teams. UM enables you to receive voice mails and FAXs in your Outlook Inbox. You can listen to voice mail messages while in Outlook or on your phone. In Outlook 2010, we’ve added some cool new features to Unified Messaging, including Voice Mail Preview, protected voice mail, and Call Answering Rules to make the UM experience even more compelling. All of the features described below require an account on an Exchange 2010 server, and work with both Outlook… -
Easier Ways to Create and Manage Meetings
16 Oct 2009 | 9:24 amEarlier posts about Meeting Requests with a Preview of your Calendar and Introducing Quick Steps might have left you wondering what other improvements Outlook 2010 brings to creating and managing meetings. There are many, and I am glad to give you an overview. Here’s how they can work for you. Meeting Reply If an e-mail conversation gets to a point where a meeting would be more useful, just click Meeting Reply to set up a meeting with the people involved in the conversation. It will copy the content of the e-mail conversation into the meeting request, to help keep you within the context of… -
Outlook on Facebook
25 Sep 2009 | 7:14 pmMicrosoft Outlook now has its very own fan page on Facebook, which means you now have an easy way to get free tips about your favorite program, share ideas about the ways you use Outlook, and get answers to Outlook-related questions that you’ve always wanted to ask. The nice thing about joining the Outlook fan page is that it integrates nicely with Facebook’s existing news feed and notification system. You can choose to see Help & How-to tips in your Facebook news feed automatically or read them only when you want to. Similarly, if you post something on the fan page, you can choose to… -
Better Searching in Outlook 2010
24 Sep 2009 | 6:54 pmA common problem with email searches is that they can return too many results. For example, entering someone’s name may return matches where the name appears in parts of the message’s body even though you meant to look for messages from that person. It can be also hard to enter other criteria to help narrow your search, such as whether it has an attachment or that it has a particular category applied. Wouldn’t it be great if you could specify these parameters easily and get a better set of results - finding what you want even faster? Outlook 2010 makes it easy! Outlook 2010 makes…
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The PowerPoint Team Blog
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Free PowerPoint Design Intervention
2 Nov 2009 | 10:27 amWhat’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
20 Oct 2009 | 4:27 pmAs 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 -
PowerPoint 2010: Just One Click Away
15 Oct 2009 | 3:06 pmThanks to advancements in application virtualization technology, you’ll have the option to run the full version of Microsoft Office 2010 without the need to wait for installation, even if you have previous versions of Microsoft Office already installed. Similar to streaming a video over the internet, we send you the data you need to start the applications first, and then continue to download or “buffer” the rest of the application in the background. With this new way of running Office, you don’t need an optical drive, you can save more space on your disk drive, and you’ll always be… -
PowerPoint on the Web: A New View of Your Presentation
11 Oct 2009 | 10:11 pmHopefully by now you’ve heard about the new versions of your favorite Microsoft Office applications that are showing up on the web. A large part of the effort behind Office 2010 has been to bring Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint functionality to SharePoint and Windows Live, enabling a whole new range of distribution and interactivity. You may even have tried these out for yourself in the preview SkyDrive customers are currently invited to explore. If you have, please let us know what you think, and if you haven’t, well, you still have time to check it out. Creating New… -
Introducing Broadcast Slide Show
8 Oct 2009 | 11:13 pmIn today’s world, you often need to communicate with people in different locations who can’t get together in the same room. When you’re presenting, you want everyone to see your slide show at the same time -- whether they’re sitting next to you or joining on the phone from 10,000 miles away. PowerPoint 2010 makes it easy to present on the fly to anyone, anywhere. Just send a link, and in one click everyone you invite will be watching a synchronized view of your slide show in their browser. You’ll never again need to email bulky attachments or make an announcement every time you…
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Templates blog
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Submit a Template is back in business!
26 Oct 2009 | 1:27 pmOver the past few weeks, our Submit a Template pipeline has been undergoing some construction. This has caused intermittent downtime and potential delays in getting the cool templates you submitted during this time to show up on Office Online. Well, I am happy to report that we are officially done with construction and community submitted templates are flowing once again. We hope any delay in getting your templates up and visible wasn't too much of an inconvenience to you. The templates submitted by the Office Online community have quickly become the… -
Need a party flyer for Halloween? Here’s how to make one fast
26 Oct 2009 | 12:41 pmTechnorati Tags: halloween,templates,images,clip art,flyers,menus,place cards,gift certificates 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… -
Add Fotolia photos directly to Word or Powerpoint
14 Oct 2009 | 9:00 amWe'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 -
Template du jour
14 Sep 2009 | 3:47 pmDo you like to see what’s new in our Templates collection, but don’t have time to explore daily? If the answer is yes, we’ve got good news for you. Our all-up Office blog, known as Inside Office Online, is now publishing a template every day – with a handy download button so you can download it directly to your computer if you like it. Of course you can always bookmark the Templates home page and look for updates there, but to get a daily dose, head on over to Inside Office Online and subscribe to the RSS feed. Who knows, you might run across something else of interest… -- Nancy -
Announcing templates contest WINNERS!
8 Sep 2009 | 12:30 pmHere you are, back from a long weekend, thinking nothing could get you interested in work today, but . . . what about the winners of our latest templates contest!? Congratulations to Joy Miller, Maggie O., SMcGinnis and our very own Crabby Office Lady. (Yes, she qualifies - since there are no actual prizes, other than the extreme satisfaction of being a winner and being presented as such on our Templates home page, anybody can enter.) You may or may not recall the theme of this contest was "School Rules: Award Certificates" - just in time for you to take advantage of all the creative ideas…
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Access Team Blog
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Displaying Data From Related Tables on a Form
6 Nov 2009 | 2:12 pmToday's guest blogger is Access MVP Scott Diamond. Scott is the principal of Diamond Computing Associates and the author of Microsoft Office Access 2007 VBA This is a very frequently discussed issue. But before I get into the methods, you need to understand one of the principles of relational databases. That principle is that data should exist in one place only. Having the same data in multiple tables is a violation of normalization. Related records are indicated by a Foreign Key within the record that holds the Primary Key value of the parent record. So when you want to have data from… -
A better way to reference tab control pages
5 Nov 2009 | 6:38 pmIn VBA, a common way to refer to the pages of a tab control is to use the Value property. However, Luke Chung, President of FMS Inc., recommends using the PageIndex property instead. Click here to find out why! Send your Power Tips to Mike and Chris at accpower@microsoft.com. -
Access featured on MSNZ Podcast
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Demo of Access 2010 room bookings database
3 Nov 2009 | 11:21 amAlbert D. Kallal (Access MVP) has published a great video demo of an application that he build for tracking meetings rooms. He even has built a fancy calendar control that renders in the web using data macros and bound controls. it is a good example of the types of things you can do in the browser with Access + Access Services. Here is my favorite quote from the video: I find this new table level programming model encourages designs that allow you to quickly react to your changing business needs. You can likely change your application in less time than it takes to have a meeting with your web… -
Why VBA still makes sense
28 Oct 2009 | 9:52 pmJohn Durant from the Office Developer marketing team is blogging about why VBA still makes sense. I expect the Access community is interested in what he has to say. Here is a little taste of the article: 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…
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Microsoft Office Project 2007
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Microsoft Project 2010 Session at Tech Ed Europe 2009
4 Nov 2009 | 3:53 pmPlease find below the list of Project 2010 sessions that will be delivered at Tech Ed Europe 2009 in Berlin in November. We will also have a Microsoft Project 2010 booth staffed by product experts in the Microsoft Product Pavilion so please drop by and ask plenty of questions! Session Description Code Speaker Date/Location Microsoft Project 2010 Overview This session provides an overview of the key investment areas and capabilities of Project Server 2010 and Project Professional 2010, including demand management, portfolio analysis, time tracking, and reporting. OFS214 Jan Kalis, Christophe… -
Project 2010 Technical Resources
3 Nov 2009 | 8:53 amWe are pleased to announce the availability of the following Microsoft Project 2010 technical resources, save these bookmarks! TechNet Project 2010 TechCenter At http://technet.microsoft.com/projectserver/default.aspx the following areas are covered for IT Professionals: Planning, Deploying and Operating Project 2010 Environment, including Project 2010 hardware and software requirements and deployment guidance Upgrade and Migrating to Project 2010 through a brand new “Upgrade and migration” resource center MSDN Project 2010 Developer Center At http://msdn.microsoft.com/project/ developers… -
Project 2010: Introducing Web Based Project Editing
2 Nov 2009 | 10:58 amHave you ever wanted to make edits to a project plan far away from your desktop installation of Project? Perhaps you were in a meeting and pulled up Project Web Access to show project status but hoped to capture updates directly in PWA as the meeting progressed. Maybe you have multiple stakeholders on a plan who want the ability to add tasks even if they aren’t responsible for the entire project schedule and don’t have Project on their desktop. Hi, I’m Pat Malatack and today I’ll be introducing you to a new feature in Project Server 2010, web based project editing in Project Web… -
Project 2010: Introducing User-Controlled Scheduling
23 Oct 2009 | 2:51 pmIn Project 2010, we have introduced a new concept called "User-Controlled Scheduling". It's a collection of features designed to make Project a more flexible planning and schedule management tool. The idea is that you, as the project manager, can have complete control over when a task should happen. If and when appropriate, you can leverage Project's powerful scheduling engine to help forecast the date of a task based on various factors like dependencies, calendar, constraints, etc. But at any time, you have the flexibility to manually override Project's automatic calculations. Ok,… -
Are you Project 2010 Ready? – Announcing Project 2010 Technical Ignite and Sales Training
22 Oct 2009 | 10:15 amIf didn’t answer with a resounding yes, check out Christophe’s post on training targeted for Microsoft Partners and Field.
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Clip Art and Media
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Need a party flyer for Halloween? Here’s how to make one fast
26 Oct 2009 | 12:35 pmTechnorati 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
14 Oct 2009 | 9:01 amWe'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!
5 Oct 2009 | 3:30 pmCheck 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
30 Jul 2009 | 9:00 amCombine 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? -
Animated PowerPoint: use Clip Art to customize Templates and create something new!
17 Jul 2009 | 9:32 amThis is an excerpt from an entry recently posted on the Templates blog, It gives one in-depth example, that while Templates are often intended to use as-is, many are also a starting point for original expression, and here’s how this was done, with Clip Art. A community submitted customization example: Click these links to find a list of submitted animated PowerPoint templates and discover some interesting things happening -- (from the quiet Animated Snowflakes slide to this audio-tracked Self-Running, Animated Presentation). *** Here you will find the animated countdown calendars that…
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Brian Jones: Office Extensibility
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Open XML and Office Services
3 Nov 2009 | 12:16 pmIf 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
22 Oct 2009 | 5:11 pmFor 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)
21 Oct 2009 | 9:45 pmFirst 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)
9 Oct 2009 | 4:51 pmWe'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… -
Finding Open XML Errors with Open XML SDK Validation
24 Sep 2009 | 5:36 pmIn a previous post, I gave you an overview of the functionality added to the Open XML SDK 2.0 August 2009 CTP. Today, I want to deep dive into the schema and semantic level validation support within the SDK. Specifically, I am going to show you guys the Open XML SDK code needed to actually validate your Open XML files. If you've played around with manipulating Open XML files there is a good chance at one point in time your resulting document was considered invalid or corrupt by the applications. You've probably even seen one of these dialogs: What do you do when you get into this state? A lot…
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Mark Harrison
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SkyDrive Explorer
5 Nov 2009 | 2:24 pmSkyDrive Explorer is a free, easy-to-use, but very powerful extension for Windows Explorer. With SkyDrive Explorer you can make any every-day operations with your documents from Microsoft Live SkyDrive service (25 GB of free storage space) using Windows Explorer, as if they were on your computer.http://www.skydriveexplorer.com/Mark Harrison -
BPOS Pricing Announcement
3 Nov 2009 | 3:04 pmMicrosoft have announced new pricing for the business productivity cloud offerings.For example, the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) is now $10 per user per month (originally $15).BPOS includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online and Live MeetingPress ReleaseOnline ServicesMark Harrison -
Forza Motorsport 3 launch video
2 Nov 2009 | 3:17 pmMark Harrison -
'Learning Snacks' for SharePoint 2010 Now Available
29 Oct 2009 | 6:24 pmLearning snacks are now available for SharePoint 2010. They are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning experts. Each Snack is delivered by using innovative Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos. At the end of each free presentation, you can view more Snacks, learn more about the topic, or visit a related Web site.Developing Solutions with Microsoft SharePoint 2010Microsoft SharePoint 2010 enables developers to build rich solutions easily, rapidly, and efficiently. This Learning Snack… -
Business Productivity at its Best - White Paper
29 Oct 2009 | 4:07 pmA new whitepaper has been made public ... Business Productivity at its Best - White Paper Very much like the Fair Good Better Best white paper for 2007, but updated for Office 2010. Mark Harrison
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Arpan Shah's Blog
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SharePoint 2010 Overview Presentation
22 Oct 2009 | 12:44 pmHere’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
20 Oct 2009 | 11:26 amIf 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
19 Oct 2009 | 9:00 amThe 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,… -
Windows Azure Poker Probability Calculator Application
26 Sep 2009 | 2:38 amOver the last few weeks, I found some free time to play around with Windows Azure. Since PDC 2008, I’ve wanted to get hands on with Windows Azure to become even more knowledgeable and gain experience with Microsoft’s cloud stack. Here you have it: My Windows Azure application at http://holdem.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx. For those of you familiar with poker, you’ll hopefully enjoy it. It provides useful data on various poker scenarios. It’s really useful for anyone who plays poker. Developing for Windows Azure was really straightforward. All I did was download the Windows Azure… -
SharePoint 2010 Training for SharePoint 2007 Partners
28 Aug 2009 | 1:47 amA lot of people have asked about SharePoint 2010 Training. Well now, it’s here! We’re announcing SharePoint Ignite which is SharePoint 2010 training for SharePoint 2007 Partners. Check out all the details and pre-requisites at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/topics/Pages/IgniteProgram4.aspx.
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John R. Durant's WebLog
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VBA code I wrote this week in Excel and how it helped me
30 Oct 2009 | 12:44 pmOK—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
28 Oct 2009 | 1:04 pmIn 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
27 Oct 2009 | 11:16 amOne 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?”
23 Oct 2009 | 8:36 amWhew! 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
7 Sep 2009 | 6:32 amNot 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
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Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program (Beth Massi)
28 Oct 2009 | 9:46 amIf 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)
19 Oct 2009 | 3:31 pmI 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)
14 Oct 2009 | 3:16 pmOne 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… -
Office Development with Visual Studio 2008 Tutorial Series Started (Beth Massi)
14 Oct 2009 | 9:25 amRobert Green, VSTO MVP, has started a series of tutorials on building on Office 2007! Thanks Robert! In this first of a series of tutorials on building applications on Office you’ll learn how to create an Outlook 2007 customer appointment management solution using Visual Studio 2008. This step-by-step tutorial also includes full source code in Visual Basic and C#. Check out the tutorial on the VSTO Developer Center: Building an Office Business Application Part 1 - Scheduling Customer Appointments If you’re just getting started with Office development in Visual Studio, this is a… -
Channel 9 Interview: John Durant on Developing Managed Applications for Office 2010 in Visual Studio 2010 (Beth Massi)
17 Sep 2009 | 2:41 pmRobert Hess posted an interview yesterday on Channel 9 with John Durant on Developing Managed Applications for Office 2010 in Visual Studio 2010. When you have 20 minutes you should check it out. John provides some highlights as to what he’ll be showing in his PDC sessions, and some of the new features that developers can look forward to in Office and Visual Studio 2010. Enjoy, -Beth Massi, Visual Studio Community
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MikeKelly's WebLog
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DevDays Seattle – Scott Hanselman
21 Oct 2009 | 10:55 amLolcode.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
21 Oct 2009 | 9:48 amWe 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… -
DevDays Seattle
21 Oct 2009 | 8:53 amI’m at DevDays Seattle, an event sponsored by Stack Overflow and Microsoft. I look at it as a day of seeing “how the other half codes”, i.e. those not using the Microsoft stack (IIS, ASP.Net, Azure, C#, etc.) but more open source tools like jQuery, mySQL, etc. One of my favorite tech bloggers, Joel Spolsky, is behind this and speaking, which I’m looking forward to. I’ll post updates during the day; topics include ASP.Net-MVC (after all, Microsoft is a co-sponsor, so I guess it’s not all about “the other half” :)), iPhone apps, Python, and Google App Engine. -
Azure Service: Moving Storage from Development (local) to the Cloud
13 Oct 2009 | 4:28 pmAs part of the process of moving my Azure test service from running entirely locally (on what's called "Development Fabric" and "Development Storage", i.e. for development on your local machine) to the Cloud, I followed the steps on MSDN which suggest moving to the Cloud in two steps: Run your service locally (on "development fabric") connecting to cloud-based storage. Once that's working, move your service to the cloud fabric. So how do you get your local service to talk to cloud-based storage? Turns out the hardest part is getting the storage table created on the Cloud (or is it "in… -
MVC and CSS
12 Oct 2009 | 3:08 pmI've spent some time trying to figure out why my simple MVC site (built on Azure) isn't rendering correctly on my development machine, and of course tracked it down to the CSS file not loading. I spent time playing around with paths, etc., but finally found a simple solution: You have to enable "Static Content" for your Internet Information Services for CSS to work on the development machine. To do this (on Windows 7), Go to Control Panel Select Programs. Select "Turn Windows Features on or off" Scroll down to the box for "Internet Information Services"; expand it Expand the box…
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Murray Sargent: Math in Office
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Equation Numbering Prototype
14 Oct 2009 | 9:33 pmWhen 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
24 Sep 2009 | 1:14 amThis 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
5 Sep 2009 | 1:16 amThe 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
31 Aug 2009 | 6:00 pmRichEdit 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:,… -
Entering Matrices
18 Aug 2009 | 12:48 amThe Office math ribbon has a few examples of matrices, but you might like to be able to enter a lot more kinds of matrices and enter them substantially faster. For this you can use the linear format (see Sec. 3.9). For example, a 2x2 matrix is entered by \matrix(…&…@...&…), where the ellipses are the contents of the matrix elements. As in TeX, &’s separate matrix elements. Rows are separated by @’s. You don’t have to enter anything in the matrix elements if you’re willing to enter them explicitly later. For example to enter a 4x4 empty matrix you can type…
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SGriffin's MAPI Internals
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Inside the PST
26 Oct 2009 | 10:12 amAs 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. -
Exchange MAPI Download Version 6.5.8131.0
20 Oct 2009 | 6:45 amJust had someone ask me what changed in this version compared to the last build. Most of the changes were tweaks to various timezones, such as the addition of a timezone for Yakutsk, my favorite Risk territory. Additionally, we fixed a problem with ITnef::AddProps. You’d only need to worry about the TNEF change if you’re actually calling into the TNEF API directly. -
So Long System Attendant Mailbox
9 Oct 2009 | 3:39 pmDave has a post up about the fate of the System Attendant Mailbox in Exchange 2010. Since this mailbox isn’t there anymore in 2010, if you have a solution that depended on it, you’ll need to rework it. Dave gives a few suggestions, such as creating your own mailbox/account (the best option since you can then control your exact permission set) or using the System Mailbox. Enjoy! -
Outlook 2010 and Shutting Down Add-Ins
5 Oct 2009 | 7:07 amRyan has a new post up about changes we’re making to Outlook 2010 to make shutdown faster. These changes are building on the previous changes we made introducing Fast Shutdown. Two key takeaways: MAPI Providers now get Fast Shutdown by default. They may still opt out of Fast Shutdown by implementing IMAPIClientShutdown. Outlook 2010 will not call the OnBeginShutdown or OnDisconnection of addins during shutdown. Ryan gives plenty of best practices for rewriting your addins to deal with these changes (and improve the user experience in the process), including policies you can use to revert… -
EnumAccounts Sample and Some New Account Management Props
30 Sep 2009 | 9:57 amA while back, Jason posted an Account Management API sample. I’ve threatened promised before that I would post an update to this sample, and I finally got around to it. You can download the updated sample here. In addition to adding a –W command to call DisplayAccountList and show the Account Settings Wizard, I’ve also added a couple new properties that dev have decided to document: #define PROP_ACCT_USER_EMAIL_ADDR PROP_TAG(PT_UNICODE, 0x000C) #define PROP_MAPI_IDENTITY_ENTRYID PROP_TAG(PT_BINARY, 0x2002) PROP_ACCT_USER_EMAIL_ADDR is simply the e-mail address for the account, and…
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Office OFFline Comic Strip
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Democracy + Work + People + Decisions =
6 Nov 2009 | 9:48 amToday’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 =
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Marketing + Software =
23 Oct 2009 | 9:13 amEverything they needed to know, they learned in Junior High...(read more) -
Projects - Air + Attention =
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Halloween + Parties - Costumes =
19 Oct 2009 | 9:33 amHalloween is a hard time of the year for people who don’t like parties...(read more)
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Arrow Tips- Brought to you by Advena Artemis
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Using SharePoint to Communicate KPI Dashboards
6 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pmThere 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
15 Oct 2009 | 9:29 amYesterday 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
13 Oct 2009 | 7:16 amTomorrow 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
8 Sep 2009 | 1:17 pmDo 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
1 Sep 2009 | 2:55 pmOn 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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Microsoft Word Tips & Tricks
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Why you MUST learn how to create a macro in MS Word 2002/2003/2007
20 Oct 2009 | 1:25 amOne of the hidden features in Microsoft Word is macros. These are small mini-programs that you can create to automate tasks, for example, formatting a document, changing the layout or updating styles. What is a macro? A macro is a series of commands and instructions that you group together as a single command to accomplish a task automatically. Read why you MUST learn how to create a macro? Why create a macro? It makes your life that much easier. You can setup a macro to: Automate a complex series of tasks Combine multiple commands — for example, to insert a table with a specific size and… -
MS Word 2010: Is the new Find re-design better or worse?
17 Oct 2009 | 3:39 amIn the new version of Word 2010, there is a new ‘integrated flavor of the Find feature’. Scott Walker, Lead Program Manager, for Microsoft Word explains that ‘Rather than a modeless dialog box that jumps about on the screen to get out of the way, the basic Find experience now sits conveniently at the top of the navigation pane.” Note: The Word 2007 Find dialog is still available by clicking the dropdown at the right-hand edge of the search box. So, what is the new Find user experience? Scott runs through how it works: Type in the Search Document box at the top of the navigation pane… -
MS Office 2010, New Mini Translator feature
16 Oct 2009 | 3:16 amMicrosoft have introduced a Mini Translator in Office 2010 that provides on-the-fly translation as you select a word or phrase and provides dictionary definitions of individual words. How it works Point to a word or selected phrase with your mouse, and the translation will display in a small window. The Mini Translator also includes a Play button so you can hear an audio pronunciation of the word or phrase using a text-to-speech engine. The Copy button lets you paste the translation into another document. You can use the Mini Translator in Word, Outlook, OneNote and PowerPoint. There is a… -
Microsoft adds POP e-mail, better Mac support to Hosted Applications
15 Oct 2009 | 5:52 pmMary Jo Foley reports on ZDNET that Microsoft is rolling out a number of new feature additions to its Microsoft-hosted family of “Online” services, including POP e-mail compatibility and better support for Mac clients. Microsoft’s Online family currently includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Communications Online, Live Meeting and the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). All of these services are hosted by Microsoft (but not currently running on its Azure cloud operating system). With the October Service Update, Exchange Online users get support for POP-based clients. -
How to extend the Ribbon in MS Office / Open XML SDK
15 Oct 2009 | 3:04 amThe Fluent UI, or as it’s better known the Ribbon, was introduced in Office 2007. The Fluent UI technology, like the Open XML formats, is based on XML, which allows for a richer extensibility story for developers. Erika Ehril’s blog post describes several tools and resources related to Fluent UI extensibility. Brian Jones extend her post by showing you how the Open XML SDK can be used to extend or actually control custom UI within documents. As is the case with other features in Open XML files, the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office supports Fluent UI through strongly typed access…
