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Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:42 AM

What’s on the ‘tubes this June - Office 2007 Deployment Series

Oh, boy – here I was looking to hibernate this winter… but we will be kicking off a local deployment webcast series.    Office 2007 Deployment Series - Session 1: Get Started with your Office Deployment Language(s):  English.  Product(s): 
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Sunday, May 10, 2009 11:54 PM

Free Office 2007 Seminar in Brisbane

Andrew Lowson and I will be hosting a free seminar at the Microsoft Brisbane office this Wednesday. In this session we will dive into some of the technical advancements in Office 2007, Office Business Applications and extensions to improve the Office
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:58 PM

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is in the wild

There are plenty of good posts on this: Gray Knowlton’s post goes into a lot of interesting detail about some of the under the covers changes and the Office Sustained Engineering team blog is a font of knowledge. What is most interesting to me in SP2?
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Monday, April 20, 2009 6:02 AM

Windows washer

Interesting article from AP on the design process behind Windows 7, and how many of the ideas were pollinated from the Office 2007 development process. Much like the ribbon, development of the Windows 7 interface was informed through data gathered by
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Friday, April 17, 2009 1:04 AM

The Myth of Simplicity

It is tempting to suggest that, on average we use perhaps 10% of the functionality in Office. If we use so little, can we get by on a simpler application set for our needs? To answer this question, we rely on the Customer Experience Improvement Program
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Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:09 AM

Working with Office 2007 from the Command Line

A pretty esoteric topic, but you never know when some of these features may come in handy. I have picked out some that I think are most useful, but there are plenty more listed in the documentation (You read the documentation, right?) Outlook 2007 /cleancategories
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 12:53 AM

Generating documents with C#, Open XML and the Document Reflector

I’ve been playing around with the Document Reflector in the Open XML SDK v2 CTP lately and I have to say, it is fantastic. You can take a document with fancy formatting, styles, pictures etc and turn it into a C# class that will generate said document.
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 11:18 AM

When is the right time to deploy Office 2007?

Christmas 2005 (beta 1 of Office “12”), well at least that was the time I deployed Office 2007. But I appreciate some of you may be the risk averse type. SP1 is usually a good milestone for mainstream-ity. I had a realisation that Office 2007 had surpassed
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 2:53 AM

New OBA (Sales Forecast)

The OBA guys are doing some really , really cool stuff. As someone that works with salespeople every day, I know how tough and time consuming (but business critical) forecasting can be. Any time that an organisation can save from time consuming processes
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Friday, August 15, 2008 4:32 AM

Confluence 2.9 - now with extra Office Support

Those cool (well, for java guys) dudes at Atlassian have beefed up their Office support in Confluence, their enterprise wiki system. From their press release: Confluence users can now edit wiki pages directly from Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint,
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 6:01 AM

Scenes from an upcoming Tech.Ed Presentation

  (Shameless guerilla marketing attempt to astroturf support for...) Groove: Collaboration Mythbusters “It’s too hard to collaborate across so many firewalls. I can’t have access to what I need unless I VPN in or use terminal services.
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:54 PM

David LeBlanc on Office Cryptography

David LeBlanc has a really good article on the evolution of cryptography in Office. David LeBlanc's Web Log : Office Crypto Follies There have been a lot of advancements to this through the various Office releases but if you absolutely, positively need
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:36 PM

3 Office System Whitepapers you need to know

For all you collabronauts out there, whether you are architecting, developing, maintaining or consuming information - it these three whitepapers should be a required text and on hand for any snappy business cases you need to put together. Collaborative
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:40 AM

What is an Office Business Application?

Is it a macro? A sharepoint customisation? A mashup? What is important, in my mind, is that the user is shielded from the complexity (or lack of it) in the process and the application can just stay out of their way so they can do their job and keep using
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:28 PM

Free Office Templates (that aren't from the 80s)

6 designs, 9 colours,  7 templates. 378 new options for creating documents that don't suck. Go get them tiger. Microsoft Small Business Center | Free Office Templates
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