Andrew May's WebLog

Here's something I meant to mention a while back: did you know that when you set a shape's action setting to launch a program, you can pass command line switches to that program? This is something I stumbled across, and there doesn't seem to be any mention Read More...

My latest article on programming Publisher, Using Tags to Store Custom Information in Publisher 2003 and Publisher 2002 , has just been published on MSDN . As the name states, the article talks about using the Tags collection of the Document , Page , Read More...

Read part one here . Next, we need to create custom animation that controls the order in which PowerPoint displays the shapes on the slide. 1. From the Slide Show menu, click Custom Animation . 2. Select the shape that displays the second-highest time Read More...

Yesterday, a co-worker asked a few of us in PowerPoint user assistance how to create a timer to use during a presentation break. The only stipulation was that the timer had to use PowerPoint's native capabilities: she wanted something she could give to Read More...

For those of you who have been waiting for an actual copy of the OneNote schema, wait no more. MSDN has just republished the Office 2003: XML Reference Schemas download, and this time it includes OneNote 2003 SP1. The download includes a copy of the OneNote Read More...

So I moved into a new assignment last week. After spending the last two years writing about programming Publisher, PowerPoint, and OneNote (and occasionally Visio ), it's only logical that I would move on to writing about something that really plays to Read More...