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PowerPoint actually got FUN !
Joe Stagner
writes "I’m a developer, but the foundation of my job at Microsoft is the COMMUNICATION of software Engineering concepts. This might seem like a minor distinction but I don’t think it is..."
Access object name limits
Michael Kaplan
writes " few days ago, Eric Rucker posted about the various limits in Access 2007 in this post, including my favorites:"
Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 Beta 1 - go get it
Keith Combs
writes "As reported on the Windows Vista Team Blog, you can now apply for access to Beta 1 of the Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 product. To get access to the bits, go to https://connect.microsoft.com/availableconnections.aspx. You will need to signon with your Passport ID.
BDD 2007 is the best practice set of ...
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Visio 2007: Publish as PDF or XPS
wmorein
writes "As many of you know, Visio 2007 and the other Office applications will support exporting to Adobe PDF and Microsoft XPS (XML Paper Specification). This works out of the box in Beta 2, but will be a separate free download when the final version is released (see this post for details). To generate one of these formats for your diagram, just go to “File>Publish as PDF or XPS…” and you’ll see the dialog below (this is the Vista version). You have a few options around quality and the such, but basically just ..."
Tricks for working with the built in Visio shapes
wmorein
writes "Having shapes that work intelligently is one of the most powerful aspects of Visio. A lot of the built in templates take full advantage of that and react to changes that users make to shape data or by dragging the control handles without requiring code. Most of the time this is exactly what ..."
2007 Office System Starter Kit - If Not Now, Then When?
Mark Kruger
writes "2007 Office System Starter Kit: Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit
Overview
The Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit (Beta 2) is a preliminary release for solution providers, independent software vendors, value-added resellers, and other developers to learn about how to extend the new ECM features and platform in Office SharePoint Server 2007. It contains the following:
White Papers ..."
Some Words About Charting
Excel Team Blog
writes "When I read over the feedback, especially the feedback that resulted from the survey post last week, it seems to fall into three categories:
Why did you not add (insert your most important chart feature here) in Office 2007?
There is too much of an emphasis on “eye candy” in the features that you did add to Charting in Office 2007.
The styles that you have shown us are not “professional”.
Here are a few thoughts on each of those items that will, hopefully, at least help everyone understand how we ended up where we are...."
Highlighting in a document
writes "...An area I just came across today that really surprised me was highlighting. I'm sure most folks are familiar with highlighting in a Word document. You can use highlighting to call attention to different areas in a document either for yourself or to point things out to others. The key about highlighting is that it does not affect any other formatting. Character shading (aka background-color in ODF) for instance will still be ..."
Office 2007 PDF support in jeopardy
Windows Connected
writes "It seems that Adobe reserves the right to tell some folks PDF is open, and other folks that it isn't. For years, PDF has been a standard portable (and open) format on the internet. Many ISV's and open source projects have read the statements on Adobe's web site (PDF File here) that seem to say that PDF is open and you just have to meet the standard and have some Adobe info in your copyright...Along comes Microsoft trying to add support for output to PDF into Office 2007. All of a sudden it isn't an open format that anyone can implement anymore. At least it seems Microsoft can't without..."
Spreadsheet performance - Shared Formulas
writes "I wanted to follow up on the thread I started a couple weeks ago discussing the design goals behind spreadsheetML. There's a whole host of things we've done to make sure that the move to XML formats is a huge benefit to developers, without it actually having a ..."
Snapshot of Word 2007 Blogging UI
Jeff Julian
writes "For those of you who want to see what the Word 2007 Blogging UI looks like, here is a snapshot: (Click to enlarge)..."
Word 2007 Beta 2 Blogging and .Text
Jeff Julian
writes "Several people have tried out blogging from Word 2007 (as I am now) and are having problems with .Text. This issue is in the CookComputing.XmlRpc.dll and a dateTime error they fixed. This is used in the Post struct which blows up the newPost method. If you update the dll to a later version..."
Be Careful with Groove 2007 Upgrade
Windows Connected
writes "I’ve been a Groove user ever since Microsoft acquired the company last year. I primarily use Groove for folder synchronization and a couple small collaboration workspaces. With Groove 2007 finally hitting Beta 2 I decided it was time to upgrade from Groove 3.1. I held off until now based on my testing of Groove 2007 Beta 1 and Beta 1 TR (those still seemed a little rough around the edges).
Here are a couple things to keep in mind as you evaluate migrating to Groove 2007 Beta 2, or installing it for the first time:
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Wow, I love Vista and Office 2007
Jeff Julian
writes "Just absolutely amazing!!! John and I loaded our TabletPC with Vista and Office 2007 Beta 2 without VPC and I must say, I really like what I see. Most Tablets, including ours, don’t have the video needed for Aero, but the user experience is ..."
The 2007 Office system... already over 500,000 served
writes "I saw this article up on betanews this afternoon saying that just 24 hours after going live, there were already 200,000 downloads of Beta 2. I thought that was pretty impressive and asked a few folks about it. It turns out that we're actually now over 500,000 and the curve is actually ramping up, and not flattening. Who knows where we'll be by next week. This is awesome!
The first draft of the ..."
Beta downloads
writes "...Speaking of the Beta, you may have noticed that the servers are really bogged down right now. A number of folks have had trouble getting the product keys. We are definitely aware of the problem, and there are a lot of people out here working to up the capacity. Sorry for the inconvenience...."
Tools|Options The Rest
Excel Team Blog
writes "A few days ago, I outlined some changes that had been made to Tools|Options. Today, I wanted to run through how the options were organized for those of you that are curious, and point out one other feature I forgot to mention Monday. Since we already looked at the “Personalize” tab, let’s start with the Formulas tab...."
IE 7, Office 2007, RSS and the Feed Protocol
Scott Hanselman
writes "I've been having an interesting back and forth with Sean Lyndersay, a Senior Program Manager on the RSS Team at Microsoft.
I noticed that Office 2007 - specifically Outlook 2007 - registered itself as a system-wide handler (without asking) for the feed: psuedo-protocol. Omar and I added support for feed: in DasBlog and half the users loved it and half hated it. I've always liked the idea, and the user experience of ..."
Office 2007 - Everything you know is Different?
Scott Hanselman
writes "I downloaded and installed Office 2007 Beta 2 and I'm on freaking Mars. I'm totally lost. Everything's changed, it's like someone broke into my office and moved everything.
Good stuff:
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What You May Not Know About Tabs in Microsoft Excel
Rafael Van Dyke
writes "If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, then you're probably familiar with tabs. But those of us that are long time spreadsheet users have a greater appreciation for how wonderful they are; that's because ... "
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