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  • Quick! Recall that email message

    The Microsoft Office Blog
    Leslie Cole
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:10 pm
    It happens. You made a mistake. How do you "take back" or recall an Outlook email message that you already sent? How do you recall a message and replace it with another one? Go to your Outlook Sent Items folder first, and then recall that message! Quickly! ...(read more)

  • Beyond spreadsheets: Spiffy Excel calendars for 2012

    Excel Blog
    Emily Warn
    6 Jan 2012 | 2:56 pm
    Need a plain-vanilla calendar for your business which shows the year in a glance? Or the kind that your local hardware passes out for free (marketing) at the end of the year? Free 2012 Excel calendars are now available....(read more)

  • Experienced Document Specialist

    Microsoft Office News
    28 Jan 2012 | 6:08 am
    New York, The Document Specialist is a member of the on-site Williams Lea team delivering exceptional customer service at our client locations.

  • Coming Soon: An 'IBM Edition' of Apache OpenOffice - PCWorld

    "MICROSOFT OFFICE" - Google News
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:34 pm
    CRNComing Soon: An 'IBM Edition' of Apache OpenOfficePCWorldBy Katherine Noyes, PCWorld IBM's Lotus Symphony office suite has offered users a free Microsoft Office alternative since 2007, but last week saw the release of what's very likely the last version of the software. Based itself on the open source First Look: IBM Docs Takes On Google, MicrosoftCRNIBM releases last Symphony, dedicates self to OpenOfficeThe HMove over MS Word, Cloud Apps are ChargingChannelnomicsall 8 news articles »

  • Customize! 5 table of contents tricks

    Word Blog
    Joannie Stangeland
    18 Jan 2012 | 1:25 pm
    The Word 2010 gallery makes adding a basic table of contents quick: Click the References tab, click Table of Contents, and then click the gallery table of contents you want. But what if you want more? What if your table of contents needs to provide different information--more levels, or fewer levels? What if you want a table of contents at the beginning of each chapter? What if you want to change the font? Here are some of the ways you can customize your table of contents....(read more)
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    The Microsoft Office Blog

  • Quick! Recall that email message

    Leslie Cole
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:10 pm
    It happens. You made a mistake. How do you "take back" or recall an Outlook email message that you already sent? How do you recall a message and replace it with another one? Go to your Outlook Sent Items folder first, and then recall that message! Quickly! ...(read more)

  • Five most popular posts on the Excel blog in 2011

    Emily Warn
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:03 pm
    It's still January. There's still time to share the most popular posts on the Excel blog in 2011. Thanks for reading them! The first one is--you guessed it--about keyword shortcuts.  From the post, you can download Quick Reference Cards to pin to your corkboard....(read more)

  • How to save your Access SharePoint password

    Emily Warn
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:52 am
    Recently, someone posted a comment on IT Impact Inc.'s blog asking how to get SharePoint to remember his password when he logged in via Access. He wanted to avoid having to log in every time. Ben Clothier, a Senior Access Developer at IT Impact, knew the answer. He wrote a detailed blog post (with plenty of screenshots) that we'd like to share with you. ITImpact has been building custom databases with Microsoft Access since 1994, serving customers around the world. Ben Clothier has been Microsoft...(read more)

  • Helping You Get Started

    Stephen Bury
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:54 pm
    Perhaps you've heard about the advantages of Microsoft Office 365, and want to give it a try. Or maybe you've already completed a 30-day trial and are ready to subscribe on an ongoing basis.  The question is: Which plan should I subscribe to? To make your choice easy, we've updated our Office 365 website to help you quickly select the right plan for your organization.  Now, from a single page, you can compare all the subscription plans side-by-side, including the specific features and prices of each. You can see which plans come with a free, 30-day trial, and find the plan best…

  • Working with Nothing but a Windows Phone, Part 2 (Office Mobile)

    Doug Thomas
    24 Jan 2012 | 12:59 pm
    A restaurant can become a workplace using Windows Phone. With a built-in version of Office, communications software (Lync), and a way to access your files stored Microsoft's free cloud service (SkyDrive), you can see how to attend a meeting and even handle an emergency while eating your lunch.  ...(read more)
 
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    "MICROSOFT OFFICE" - Google News

  • Coming Soon: An 'IBM Edition' of Apache OpenOffice - PCWorld

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:34 pm
    CRNComing Soon: An 'IBM Edition' of Apache OpenOfficePCWorldBy Katherine Noyes, PCWorld IBM's Lotus Symphony office suite has offered users a free Microsoft Office alternative since 2007, but last week saw the release of what's very likely the last version of the software. Based itself on the open source First Look: IBM Docs Takes On Google, MicrosoftCRNIBM releases last Symphony, dedicates self to OpenOfficeThe HMove over MS Word, Cloud Apps are ChargingChannelnomicsall 8 news articles »

  • Microsoft: Partners Selling Office 365 Should Also Use It - TalkinCloud

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:36 am
    Microsoft: Partners Selling Office 365 Should Also Use ItTalkinCloudFlinders reminded partners that Microsoft makes available co-marketing materials for products including Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Windows Intune and the concept of cloud computing itself. Microsoft is “100% (sic) behind” partners who make cloud B2B Technologies Helps First Higher Education Institution Adopt Microsoft eCampus Newsall 2 news articles »

  • LexisNexis Enhances Lexis for Microsoft Office with Real-time Management of ... - Business Wire (press release)

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    LexisNexis Enhances Lexis for Microsoft Office with Real-time Management of Business Wire (press release)Video tutorials on the new features and information about Lexis for Microsoft Office are available at: www.lexisnexis.com/newlexis/office. Launched in 2010, Lexis for Microsoft Office combines innovative drafting tools and seamless access to and more »

  • Microsoft Malaysia wins the Brand - The Borneo Post

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:54 pm
    Microsoft Malaysia wins the BrandThe Borneo PostOffice 365 provides access to familiar Microsoft Office collaboration and productivity tools delivered through the cloud. The cloud based service rolled out in July 2011 in 40 countries around the world, provides SMEs with enterprise-grade productivity and more »

  • Contemporary Personnel Staffing Inc. & Professionals Inc. Selected Microsoft ... - Sacramento Bee

    26 Jan 2012 | 4:39 pm
    Contemporary Personnel Staffing Inc. & Professionals Inc. Selected Microsoft Sacramento BeeAbout Professional Advantage Professional Advantage provides staffing software solutions built in Microsoft Dynamics® that leverage Microsoft SharePoint® and Microsoft Office® to meet the unique needs of the staffing industry. Our staffing Back Office and more »
 
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    Word Blog

  • Customize! 5 table of contents tricks

    Joannie Stangeland
    18 Jan 2012 | 1:25 pm
    The Word 2010 gallery makes adding a basic table of contents quick: Click the References tab, click Table of Contents, and then click the gallery table of contents you want. But what if you want more? What if your table of contents needs to provide different information--more levels, or fewer levels? What if you want a table of contents at the beginning of each chapter? What if you want to change the font? Here are some of the ways you can customize your table of contents....(read more)

  • Guy Kawasaki's Guide to Writing a Business Plan

    Emily Warn
    12 Jan 2012 | 2:12 pm
    Just at the beginning of starting a business? Or mulling over an idea for one? Knowing how to structure and write a business plan is essential to testing your tantalizing idea against the marketplace. Author, influencer, and venture capitalist, @Guy Kawasaki, partnered with Office Web Apps team to show you how to write an effective one in Microsoft Word : Get tips straight from an expert, and download his free guide from SkyDrive. And, one other thing: using the Word Web App makes it easy to share...(read more)

  • Type A personality? Make checklists in Word

    Leslie Cole
    11 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Sometimes all it takes to get your world under control is checking off tasks on a list. Office.com has lots of already-made checklist templates to meet your needs, including those for general projects, travel planning, or daily tasks. But if you're a Type A personality, making your own list is the first step to regaining control. Word can help....(read more)

  • New Word calendars for 2012

    Emily Warn
    4 Jan 2012 | 7:19 pm
    It's hard to believe that it's 2012 already! Now it's time for this year's calendar to keep track of dates and plan your days. We have some wonderful new Word calendars to help you do just that.  All of these calendars take advantage of familiar Word 2010 features to let you design your own calendar. For example, you can Use themes and change colors to give the calendar's border a different look....(read more)

  • From you to us: 5 ways Word works for you --

    Joannie Stangeland
    27 Dec 2011 | 11:00 am
    For our last blog post of the year, we took a look back to see which ones you read the most. It’s no surprise that the top five were tips—the shorter the better for reading at work....(read more)
 
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  • How to synchronize Google Calendar and Outlook?

    1ve0
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:27 pm
    If you want to sync Google Calendar and Outlook, Google Calendar Sync tool is all you need. There are 2-way and 1-way synchronizing alternatives. Try it: http://dl.google.com/dl/googlecalendarsync/googlecalendarsync_installer.exe Google Calendar Sync tool If you have Google Apps for Business (I mean you pay for the service), you can use an excellent tool that name is Google Apps Sync for Outlook. It provides mail, calendar, contact, free/busy data syncronization capability. http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/outlook_sync.html Lastly, if you bored of Outlook (How can it be possible?)…

  • On Live Desktop iPad App

    fedsolutions
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    OnLive is introducing a new app for iPad. The OnLive desktop app provides access to a full suite of Windows 7 applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, which are hosted in the cloud and totally free. OnLive Desktop uses the same powerful network used the company’s cloud-based gaming service, which launched in the UK last year. This means the OnLive desktop app is also powerful enough to support features on the iPad that you typically needed a PC to use, including: HD video, animations and PC video games, along with multitouch gestures, handwriting recognition and the Windows…

  • “Business Analyst-Networking/Infrastructure” for Long-Term Contract position in New York City, NY.

    Resource Logistics, Inc.
    23 Jan 2012 | 1:11 pm
    Hi,   Hope you are doing great!   Our client needs “Business Analyst-Networking/Infrastructure” for Long-Term Contract position in New York City, NY.   Below are the details of this job, please go through it. If you*re interested, please reply with a MS Word copy of your updated resume. If you are not available, I would appreciate your referring others who you feel would excel at this opportunity.   Position Title: Business Analyst-Networking/Infrastructure Position Location: New York City, NY. Position Duration: Long-Term Contract Client Industry: - Work-Hours: 40hrs…

  • “SharePoint Architect/Lead” for 06-12 months Contract position in Chicago, IL.

    Resource Logistics, Inc.
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am
    Hi   Hope you are doing great!   Our client needs “SharePoint Architect/Lead” for 06-12 months Contract position in Chicago, IL.   Below are the details of this job, please go through it. If you*re interested, please reply with a MS Word copy of your updated resume. If you are not available, I would appreciate your referring others who you feel would excel at this opportunity.   Position Title: SharePoint Architect/Lead Position Location: Chicago, IL. Position Duration: 06-12 months Contract Client Industry: - Work-Hours: 40hrs per Week Years of Experience: 08 years…

  • Office: Welcome New Students

    Mr. Mistler
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:14 am
    Hi everyone! Welcome to Microsoft Office! Today we are going to get to know each other since we’ll be spending time together. It’s second semester and we are going to dive right in. Your homework for tomorrow is to find a useful iPad app for Microsoft Office and write a 1 paragraph description as to why it would be useful for this class. Then, sign up for a blog on WordPress.com and post your app (picture of it), and the description. Make your blog unique like you. Have fun with it. Spelling and grammar are important to consider. You must also download the WordPress app for your…
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    Excel Blog

  • Five most popular posts on the Excel blog in 2011

    Emily Warn
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:03 pm
    It's still January. There's still time to share the most popular posts on the Excel blog in 2011. Thanks for reading them! The first one is--you guessed it--about keyword shortcuts.  From the post, you can download Quick Reference Cards to pin to your corkboard....(read more)

  • Yes, it is possible to create nice looking spreadsheets

    Diego M. Oppenheimer
    19 Jan 2012 | 3:23 pm
    15 Spreadsheet Formatting Tips For the last couple years I’ve been meaning to pull together some of the tips that I’ve learned working on the Excel team about how to make nice looking spreadsheets. Well, last week, Rob Collie (a previous Excel Program Manager, and now CTO at Pivotstream and author of PowerPivotPro.com) beat me to it with his post “In the Browser, Aesthetics Yield a Greater Return.”...(read more)

  • Guy Kawasaki's guide to creating a financial forecast in Excel

    Emily Warn
    17 Jan 2012 | 6:46 pm
    You've finished your business plan and polished the pitch for investors. As an entrepreneur you know what comes next: number-crunching. To clinch funding, you need a financial projection that shows investors the path to profitability. We worked with @Guy Kawasaki to guide you through creating a financial forecast that will wow funders....(read more)

  • Generate invoice numbers in Excel

    Anneliese Wirth
    12 Jan 2012 | 12:50 pm
    If you need a way to create invoices in Excel, you can use one of the many invoice templates on Office.com. While these templates are a great starting point, they don't automatically generate unique invoice numbers—you need a macro for that. In this video, Excel MVP Bill Jelen shows you how to create a couple of macros to generate invoice numbers. The first macro automatically increments the number and then clears cells on the worksheet so you can start fresh on the next invoice. The second macro lets you save a copy of the invoice with a unique file name....(read more)

  • Beyond spreadsheets: Spiffy Excel calendars for 2012

    Emily Warn
    6 Jan 2012 | 2:56 pm
    Need a plain-vanilla calendar for your business which shows the year in a glance? Or the kind that your local hardware passes out for free (marketing) at the end of the year? Free 2012 Excel calendars are now available....(read more)
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    Outlook Blog

  • Important: Update your Outlook Facebook Connector

    Annik Stahl
    18 Jan 2012 | 8:07 pm
    Recently, we released a small update to the software that connects the Outlook Social Connector to Facebook. If you already use the Outlook Social Connector to connect to Facebook, you can get the software update in our download center. If you don't use Outlook Social Connector, you should try it out. It integrates your contacts and email messages in Outlook with status updates from social networks in one single place for you to view. The really good thing about the update is that it lets you connect...(read more)

  • Outlook on Outlook: Autumn 2011 posts

    Annik Stahl
    21 Nov 2011 | 9:00 am
    I'm starting a new feature here on the Outlook blog: A seasonal roundup of the best and brightest blog posts, articles, and general news about Outlook. Take a look; you may have missed something that could very well change your life (at least the way you email about it, calendar around it, and make tasks for it)....(read more)

  • Say Om: Outlook as guru

    Annik Stahl
    14 Nov 2011 | 8:00 am
    Every morning, right before I let her out, Bamboo plants her paws in front of my feet and casually leans into a perfect and seemingly effortless Downward-facing Dog asana, this simplest of yoga poses. And every morning I admire—or is it envy?—her unencumbered life, her absence of guile, her lack of…multiple email accounts, calendars, and devices. It’s possible that through this desire for simplicity that I finally figured out I don't have to juggle several different kinds of software on several difference devices to manage my own busy, laden, and not guileless life.

  • Outlook Today: Your morning coffee before the onslaught

    Annik Stahl
    9 Nov 2011 | 8:00 am
    Let's take a look at your morning. Chances are it takes you a while to wake up. You may need a shower, a shave, some coffee, breakfast, and maybe a chat with your loved one. Then—and only then—will you feel steady enough to wrestle with that onerous inbox of yours. I am very much this way: The last thing I want to do first thing is jump right into email. It's tempting, I know. How beautiful those bolded folders are with their brilliant blue unread mail counts, just itching to take over your brain, your time, and your life....(read more)

  • Noisy Outlook Inbox? Turn down the sound with a couple of tweaks

    Annik Stahl
    2 Nov 2011 | 12:00 pm
    Before I hop into today's features that you MUST use, I need to first explain what Conversations are (in Outlook, not in life; I assume we are all up to speed on the back and forth that happens between people...and their pets). Conversations in Outlook are simply email threads — the complete chain of messages from the first message through all the responses. In Outlook 2010 you can view all your messages in any folder in Conversation view (on the View tab, in the Conversations group, select...(read more)
 
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    PowerPoint Blog

  • Guy Kawasaki's guide on pitching to venture capitalists

    Emily Warn
    9 Jan 2012 | 11:45 am
    Are you the next Mark Zuckerberg? Author and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki has teamed up with the Office Web Apps team to offer you a step-by-step guide on creating a flawless pitch in PowerPoint, and BTW, the guide is hilarious....(read more)

  • Free 2012 PowerPoint calendars now available

    Erik Jensen
    6 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    Looking for a 2012 calendar that you can use in PowerPoint? You're in luck. Just in time for the new year, 2012 calendar templates for PowerPoint are now here. And as always, they're free. Read on to find out how to download yours today....(read more)

  • Five favorite 2011 PowerPoint blog posts

    Erik Jensen
    22 Dec 2011 | 1:23 pm
    As we wrap up 2011, we here at the PowerPoint Blog decided to reflect on the year with some of our most popular posts of the past 12 months. Lots of readers Tweeted, shared, and looked at these 5 posts, so in case you missed them the first time, here they are again. Hope you find them useful, either for the first time or once again. ...(read more)

  • Announcing STAMP: a new accessibility add-in for PowerPoint 2010

    Andrew Howard
    14 Dec 2011 | 10:51 pm
    PowerPoint 2010's audio and video features are increasingly used in presentations, making it difficult for people with hearing disabilities to fully comprehend them. Today, we're pleased to announce the release of STAMP, a new add-in which lets PowerPoint 2010 users quickly and easily add closed captions to video and audio files, making PowerPoint presentations richer, more understandable experiences for people with hearing disabilities. ...(read more)

  • Free holiday e-card from a PowerPoint wizard

    Roxanne Kenison
    14 Dec 2011 | 12:30 pm
    Every holiday season we roll out a new animated holiday e-card created by Microsoft MVP Sandra Johnson. The card is just one example of how she uses PowerPoint and her design skills to dazzle others. Read more to learn how Sandra made this card, and for steps on how to make this card your own and share it with your friends.  ...(read more)
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    Access Blog

  • How to save your Access SharePoint password

    Emily Warn
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:52 am
    Recently, someone posted a comment on IT Impact Inc.'s blog asking how to get SharePoint to remember his password when he logged in via Access. He wanted to avoid having to log in every time. Ben Clothier, a Senior Access Developer at IT Impact, knew the answer. He wrote a detailed blog post (with plenty of screenshots) that we'd like to share with you. ITImpact has been building custom databases with Microsoft Access since 1994, serving customers around the world. Ben Clothier has been Microsoft...(read more)

  • Display real-time information with the ControlTip Property

    Steven Thomas
    28 Nov 2011 | 1:00 pm
    The ControlTipText property is usually associated with providing static information. But it can also be used to display real-time info in a wide range of scenarios. ...(read more)

  • An Updated Data Model Has a Choral Arts Group Singing

    Steven Thomas
    21 Nov 2011 | 1:00 pm
    When Donna took on the role of Director at Choral Arts (a non-profit singing ensemble), she inherited a disorganized database with redundant, unreliable data. We helped Donna devise a data model and import her data into a new set of normalized tables. ...(read more)

  • Full-featured Access Services solution at http://www.accesshosting.com

    Steven Thomas
    14 Nov 2011 | 1:00 pm
    Our good friends at accesshosting.com are offering 30-day trials of two Access "cloud" solutions. Curious? Here's the deal......(read more)

  • Ways to use Access data in Excel

    Steven Thomas
    6 Oct 2011 | 1:00 pm
    When you need to use Excel to analyze data in an Access database, you have several options: you can copy and paste the data, create a data connection from Excel, or export the data to an Excel file. Your best choice depends on what you want to do. Copy/Paste If you just need some values from Access one time -- and you don't care whether the data changes in Access later on -- copy/paste is a quick and dirty way to get the job done. Export If you don't care whether the data changes but expect to get...(read more)
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    Microsoft Project 2010

  • Leveraging Office 365 for Project Collaboration Success

    Brian Ru
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:18 pm
    Earlier this month our friends on the Office 365 team shared a link via Twitter to an article by technology writer Will Kelly. Entitled "Microsoft Office 365 for Project Managers", the article surfaced the project management potential in Office 365 and an interesting theme--the "democratization of project management data". Read more about it here. Today, we're excited to share a special series on how Office 365 adoption can transform your existing project management capabilities. Microsoft Office 365 provides an infrastructure for collaboration and information sharing. It offers a cloud…

  • Add a Buffer Task using a Manually Scheduled Task

    Heather [msft]
    18 Jan 2012 | 1:30 pm
    Now we all know that the finish date a project is automatically calculated by Project and might not necessarily be the due date. If the finish date is before the due date, you have some buffer, if the finish date is after the due date, you have a problem. Let’s assume you are in the first case - it is important to track this buffer and I’ve found manually scheduled tasks are useful for this since they won’t automatically move but they’ll warn you when there is a problem. Let’s say you have this project (this will work for all projects, just make sure you have a milestone…

  • Microsoft Project Conference 2012 Full Session List Announced!

    Joriz De Guzman
    11 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am
    Microsoft Project Conference 2012 Sessions Announced We’re excited to announce that all session content including titles, abstracts, speakers and learning objectives have been posted to www.msprojectconference.com! Microsoft Project Conference 2012 is your only opportunity this year to see over 90 sessions focused on Microsoft Project 2010 and Microsoft Project Server 2010 in addition to other key products that integrate with our Microsoft Project and Portfolio Management such as SharePoint, Office 365, Dynamics, Team Foundation Server and more! Let us know what you’re looking…

  • Share a Schedule without revealing Actual Dates

    Heather [msft]
    3 Jan 2012 | 1:24 pm
    One of the questions I get fairly often is that people want to show their project schedules and get feedback on them without including real dates since their project hasn’t been officially scheduled yet. You know once you show someone a schedule with dates, that’s all they can think about and then you don’t get the feedback you want. You have three ways of doing this: Timescale The default timescale setting has it showing real dates. You can update this though by right-clicking on the timescale and selecting Timescale… Then in the dialog, for the tiers that are being displayed choose…

  • Microsoft Project Conference 2012: Free Instructor-Led Training Sessions, More Customer Sessions and the Wednesday Evening Event

    Joriz De Guzman
    20 Dec 2011 | 10:00 pm
    Free Instructor-Led Project 2010 Training Sessions for Conference AttendeesWe are excited to announce Instructor-led training sessions by our three validated training partners Milestone Consulting Group Global leaders in providing Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) services, Milestone Consulting Group can help your organization gain visibility, insight and control across all work.  With the launch of Project 2010, Milestone expanded their training offerings to include Microsoft’s Certification exams, had them validated by a third party, and made them available…
 
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    Arpan Shah's Blog

  • Cell Phone Trends in Asia

    ArpanS
    31 Dec 2011 | 12:08 pm
    I had a unique opportunity to spend 6 weeks in Asia – specifically in India, Cambodia and Thailand from early November to late December. And while this was a personal trip, I observed technology trends that were quite different from the US. Here are a few that I noticed: - WiFi is not ubiquitous. Unlike many places in the US where WiFi is present in many homes, coffee shops, airports and city centers, WiFi is not everywhere in India. There are definitely pockets of WiFi access, but even in many homes, it’s not available. - BlackBerry is a popular smartphone in India. Caveat: while I was…

  • Project Conference 2012 – Register now!

    ArpanS
    27 Nov 2011 | 4:56 am
    The Project Conference 2012 is less than 4 months away! It’s an opportunity to see the Microsoft Project team and share ideas & experiences with the greater Microsoft Project community. This conference is ideal for Business owners, Project Managers, partners, developers and IT Managers – check out the tracks at http://msprojectconference.com/pages/tracks.aspx. You can also register now at http://www.msprojectconference.com I’m looking forward to meeting you in Phoenix, AZ, next March!

  • My Netbook, OneNote and Phone

    ArpanS
    12 Oct 2011 | 11:29 am
    Over the next few weeks, I’m traveling around the world spending time with friends and family. I plan to stay unplugged from work the entire time. But unplugged from work doesn’t mean unplugged from technology. :-) Here’s how I’m balancing the art of staying unplugged from work and still remaining connected for surfing, email, photos and Skype – of course: 1. Shut down the work laptop and boot up the netbook. The easiest way to leave work behind is to leave the work laptop behind. I booted up my netbook, upgraded the netbook memory to 2GB and installed the latest updates including…

  • Using Microsoft Project 2010 to Plan My Trip

    ArpanS
    2 Oct 2011 | 2:34 pm
    I’m taking a sabbatical from October 7th to January 2nd. It’s an award I was given at my 10 year Microsoft anniversary. It’s an opportunity to unplug, relax and come back recharged for 2012 – specifically Project Conference 2012 in March! There’s never a great time to take time off, but this window turns out to be a pretty good time. I plan to write a blog post reflecting on my 10 years at Microsoft – stay tuned for that! Now back to the topic. With 12 weeks time off, my wife and I discussed many different ways to spend the time. We wanted to spend time with family, visit Europe…

  • Project 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Training

    ArpanS
    14 Sep 2011 | 1:50 am
    With Project 2010 and SharePoint 2010 deployment on the rise, it’s important to think about end user adoption and education. End user training is important to improve business processes and get value out of your software. As Dux often says when people blame the tool, “the tool isn’t the problem”. Project 2010. When it comes to Microsoft Project 2010, there are many partners that provide training for Project Server as well as Project desktop. Many of these partners support the Microsoft Project 2010 exams. You can find a list of them at…
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    Murray Sargent: Math in Office

  • Math in Office Links

    MurrayS3
    9 Jan 2012 | 10:30 am
    I started this blog in 2006 and now it’s 2012. How time flies! At this point it seems worthwhile to post links to previous posts grouped according to subject. The present post provides links relevant to the main theme of the blog, math editing and display in Microsoft Office. Eventually it would be nice to have a book on this subject. A future post will provide links to a secondary theme, RichEdit-specific documentation. A number of readers have provided auxiliary information, “cheat sheets”, short cuts, etc. I’d like to collect a list of these, so if you have links to…

  • Keyboard Operator Shortcuts

    MurrayS3
    2 Dec 2011 | 5:02 pm
    The previous post introduces Hermann Klinke’s math input notation, which he developed to speed up entry of equations for real-time note taking in OneNote. The post is followed by a very interesting set of comments comparing high-speed, and yet easy-to-remember, input sequences. Some of these involve hot keys and some can be done with math autocorrect. Both approaches are significantly faster than TeX input. In a future post, I’ll write about possible use of hot keys in math zones, which seems like a really powerful feature (MathType has it). The present post deals with a simple,…

  • Klinke’s Streamlined Math Input Notation

    MurrayS3
    20 Nov 2011 | 10:41 pm
    Hermann Klinke has designed and instrumented an input notation on top of the Microsoft Office math facility that you may want to try. It significantly reduces the number of keystrokes needed to input mathematical text. His motivation is to have a way to enter equations in real time while taking lecture notes. He has documentation and an augmented math AutoCorrect list. This blog post includes an abbreviated version of the tutorial given in the documentation. The OneNote format used in the documentation allows easy display of mathematical text, whereas I’ve only been partly…

  • Math Accents

    MurrayS3
    30 Oct 2011 | 10:26 pm
    Accents are quite common in mathematical text. For example, in physics one uses one- to four-dot accents to designate the first through fourth time derivatives, respectively. Primes are often used on integration variables. Transforms can be designated by tildes and averages by overlines. While accents are usually applied to a single base character, they can in principle be applied to any mathematical expression. This differs considerably from natural language accents, which generally apply to a single character. Accordingly no attempt to handle math accents using fully composed characters was…

  • Office Insert Symbol Dialog

    MurrayS3
    30 Sep 2011 | 12:22 am
    This blog post describes a cool insert-symbol facility built into Office applications like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. The facility is handy for locating mathematical symbols as well as other characters. And with the developments in Unicode these days, that means a lot of symbols! Recently the Unicode Technical Committee and the ISO WG2 Committee accepted the emoji characters popular on Japanese cell phone networks (DoCoMo, KDDI, and SoftBank) and more symbols will be accepted soon. These all add to the many symbols, mathematical and otherwise, that Unicode 5.0 had already offered.
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    SGriffin's MAPI Internals

  • January 2012 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI

    Stephen Griffin - MSFT
    23 Jan 2012 | 1:40 pm
    No one’s taking my subtle hints about Wikipedia. One more try: It sure would be nice if someone added MFCMAPI to the article about MAPI. The January 2012 Release (build 15.0.0.1030) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com. I’m continuing to crunch on the UI overhaul. This release has a ton of fixes for various flicker issues and glitches, especially those which show under the Windows Classic theme. Most of the problems were bad assumptions on my part that the Classic Theme helped expose. I also worked a good bit on making my various dialogs more pretty, practically rewriting the layout…

  • December 2011 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI

    Stephen Griffin - MSFT
    13 Dec 2011 | 2:34 pm
    What’s an app got to do to get on Wikipedia? You know I can’t put it there myself – that’s against the rules. The December 2011 Release (build 15.0.0.1030) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com. When I started working on the UI overhaul, I knew it was going to take a few releases to get it right. After all, I’m a one man development team, and while I’ve got a number of folks who do testing for me, I can’t catch everything. Since the last release, I’ve found (or been pointed at) a number of issues with the new UI, mostly relating to the abundance of themes out there. I’ve also…

  • EWSEditor December 2011 Update

    Stephen Griffin - MSFT
    8 Dec 2011 | 8:38 am
    Matt has just announced that EWSEditor has been updated and moved over to Codeplex. Read his announcement here, then go download EWSEditor here. Enjoy!

  • Enabling Kerberos Authentication

    Stephen Griffin - MSFT
    6 Dec 2011 | 1:58 pm
    We had a customer recently who was using Outlook 2010’s MAPI in their application to talk to the Exchange server. They wanted to enable Kerberos authentication, but were having trouble enabling it programmatically. They had found the property that gets changed when you enable Kerberos authentication through the UI: PR_PROFILE_AUTH_PACKAGE in the global profile section gets set to RPC_C_AUTHN_GSS_KERBEROS. When they tried setting this value in their profile though, they’d find that OpenAddressBook would return MAPI_W_ERRORS_RETURNED and subsequent calls to ResolveName would return…

  • November 2011 Release of MFCMAPI and MrMAPI

    Stephen Griffin - MSFT
    29 Nov 2011 | 7:48 am
    Still no mention of MFCMAPI on Wikipedia. I had such high hopes. Sigh. The November 2011 Release (build 15.0.0.1029) is live: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com. Note that build number. That’s right. I jumped all the way from 6 (where I’ve been stuck forever) to 15. That’s the sort of jump that’s normally only accompanied by a full UI refresh. And that’s exactly what you get! I’ve overhauled just about every aspect of the UI for a more modern, some might say “Metro inspired”, look. I’ll admit, there’s still some work to be done (I…
 
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  • Weekly Roundup: Tips for redlining documents, tweaking Word Options, saving emails as pdfs, and fixing line spacing

    The Guru
    23 Jan 2012 | 8:20 am
    For this week's Roundup: several reasons you might not want to employ Microsoft Word's Track Changes feature the next time you redline a document, getting under the hood with Word Options (even if you're not a techie), another way to save Outlook email as a pdf (in case you want to take it with you on your iPad or other mobile device), and one possible reason your line spacing changes won't stick in Word.

  • Weekly Roundup: Double-click shortcuts, the case of the missing ampersand, and more Office for iPad news

    The Guru
    16 Jan 2012 | 7:53 am
    This week: Stop wandering around Microsoft Word's Ribbon looking for commands and do some strategic double-clicking instead, why putting an ampersand in your Excel header or footer yields a weird result (and what to do if you really, really want that "&" to show up in your header or footer), and more news about an exciting iPad application that lets you edit Office documents. That's right ... it's the Weekly Roundup! Click the link to read the rest ...

  • Guest Post @ Lawyerist: 5 Ways to Shrink Your Outlook PST File Size

    The Guru
    3 Jan 2012 | 9:37 pm
    If your Microsoft Outlook .pst file (the one that holds all your messages, calendar items, contacts, and tasks) is getting a little heavy, here are five ways you can trim it down.

  • Weekly Roundup: Popular Word fixes, Excel row headers, and Office for iPad

    The Guru
    2 Jan 2012 | 11:59 am
    Now that it's past the annual holiday season here in the US, it's back in the saddle again for the Weekly Roundup. This week: Microsoft Office blog does its own list of most popular posts (including a couple of issues that continually plague legal office users), a quick-and-dirty Excel tutorial on printing title rows, and an exciting rumor for iPad users.

  • Guest Post @ Lawyerist: Managing Outlook Reminders

    The Guru
    20 Dec 2011 | 3:16 pm
    That Reminders window in Microsoft Outlook is a great thing … until it starts annoying the living daylights out of you. You know you ignore it at your peril, but how do you use it without it driving you crazy? My latest guest post on Lawyerist shows you how.
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  • Adobe Captivate: A Font Frenzy

    Kevin Siegel
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:40 pm
    by Kevin Siegel   I received the following from fellow Captivate developer Johan Van Eeden. It seems Johan ran into some nasty font issues on his computer that totally derailed Captivate. He found a solution and shares it below.Hi Kevin, I recently sent you some information about a Captivate problem that I experienced:  Soon after the green Captivate splash screen appears, the program freezes.  The problem of Captivate hanging up on start-up is, according to the Adobe forums, one that is encountered quite a bit with versions 4, 5, and 5.5." I tried installing, uninstalling and…

  • Adobe RoboHelp: Importing & Linking Word Documents

    Kevin Siegel
    20 Jan 2012 | 10:53 am
    RoboHelp allows you to integrate content created by different authors in Microsoft Word and Adobe FrameMaker. You can create projects by linking or importing Word and FrameMaker documents and then publish in different formats, including printed documentation. You can also use Word and FrameMaker documents as source files in an existing RoboHelp project. This article is a quick summary of the import and linking process.

  • PowerPoint 2010: Copy a Master Slide from a Previous Presentation

    Kevin Siegel
    20 Jan 2012 | 10:51 am
    by AJ George  Ever received a PowerPoint presentation from someone and wished you could apply your own, previously created master slides in the presentation? Easy peasy; here's how: Open both the recipient and the source presentation (the source presentation is the one that has the master slide you would like to use in the recipient presentation). From within the source presentation, choose View > Master Views > Slide Master. In the slide thumbnail pane on the left, right-click the master slide that you would like to copy. (Selecting the larger slide master at the top will…

  • Writing & Grammar: The Importance of Knowing (at least some) Parts of Speech

    Kevin Siegel
    19 Jan 2012 | 8:57 am
    by Jennie Ruby   If you have spoken English since infancy, you probably have a lot of the structures of English built into your head. You don't need me to tell you, for example, how to fix this sentence: Towel the into the dryer went. You probably immediately saw that the sentence was backwards (Yoda-speak) and that the word the goes beforetowel, not after it. The normally structured sentence would read: The towel went into the dryer. Why do we have to study grammar rules, then, if we know things like this without even thinking? Because not all areas of English are…

  • Adobe RoboHelp: Apply a CSS Project-Wide in a Snap

    Kevin Siegel
    18 Jan 2012 | 12:42 pm
    by Kevin Siegel   If you want to ensure that the appearance of your topics is consistent project-wide, one of the first things you should think about doing is creating a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) and then assigning the CSS to all the topics in your project.To assign the CSS to a single topic, open the topic. On the Formatting toolbar, click the Assign Style Sheet or Create New command. Select an existing CSS from the drop-down menu (or create a new one on the fly) and you are done. Using the technique above will get the job done. However, you can only use this technique to assign a…
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  • Cleaning Up Imported Data – A Recent Case Study

    Hui...
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am
    Yesterday in Formula Forensics 008 we looked at Elkhans MaxIf problem. However the solution/formula as presented is the final solution to his problem. Elkhans original worksheet contained other problems and today we will look at this: I have attached the orginal file as a sample file you can Download Here. You will see that the MaxIf cell F13 is returning 0, where it should be showing 0.246   Houston, We’ve Had a Problem! Cell F13 has the same formula we looked at in yesterday’s Formula Forensics: =MAX(IF((Parameter_3=D13)*(Parameter_4=E13),Parameter_5,0)) A quick check of the…

  • Formula Forensics No. 008 – Elkhan’s MaxIf

    Hui...
    24 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am
    Last week Chandoo received an email from Elkhan, “I have a data table with several parameters. My aim is to calculate the maximum value of the parameter5 if the parameter3 is “A” and the parameter4 is C1. Of course I can do it by sorting the data by par3 and then by par4 and then subtotaling by max, however I wonder if it can be done by a formula and I am sure it can because I believe Excel has the absolute power to do anything with any set of data. Could you please help me.” Chandoo responded with a nice Array Formula:…

  • Excel’s Auditing Functions [Spreadsheet Risk Management - Part 3 of 4]

    Chandoo
    18 Jan 2012 | 2:32 am
    This series of articles will give you an overview of how to manage spreadsheet risk. These articles are written by Myles Arnott from Excel Audit Part 1: An Introduction to managing spreadsheet risk Part 2: How companies can manage their spreadsheet risk Part 3: Excel’s auditing functions Part 4: Using external software packages to manage your spreadsheet risk In the first two articles in this series we highlighted the risks that poorly managed spreadsheet solutions can introduce to a business and outlined the steps companies can take to manage this risk. This article works through the…

  • Formula Forensics. 009 – Pradhishnair’s Chainage Problem

    Hui...
    17 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    A common Forum question and one that Chandoo has written about a few times is, Does my data overlap with another range? Last week, Pradhishnair, asked in the Chandoo.org Forums “I need to find if the values between range D2:E2 are overlapping in any of the following rages, if yes then where? (may be row number)” I answered with an array formula: =”Overlap Row S.no. = ” &MIN(IF((D3:$D$41<=E2) *(E3:$E$41>=D2) >0, (A3:$A$41))) Which returns ether: Overlap Row S.no. = x (If there is an overlap) or Overlap Row S.no. = 0 (If there is no overlap) So today in Formula…

  • Six Quick Updates

    Chandoo
    16 Jan 2012 | 2:57 am
    Hello my friend, I have a few quick updates to start the week. Just read on to keep up. Excel VBA section of Chandoo.org During last few weeks, I have spent several hours organizing all the VBA material on Chandoo.org. I am happy to announce our brand to Excel VBA area of the site. This section has Excel VBA overview, examples, videos, tips, books, references & more. Check it out. Improved Chandoo.org Homepage One of my goals for 2012 is to improve the navigability of Chandoo.org so that new visitors & regulars can become awesome in Excel faster. As the first step in this direction, I…
 
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