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By Stuart J Stuple One of the things that I love about Word 2007 is that many existing features are becoming easier to find and easier to use. The thing I find most challenging about my job and the particular areas in which I work is that if features...

By Stuart J Stuple Mastering Word isn’t about understanding the architecture or the intent of the designers; it’s about finding the features and shortcuts that make your day-to-day job easier. Copy just the formatting Almost everyone knows...

Werner Vogels is the CTO for Amazon.com. This session is quite interesting. My favorite bit was the following statement (not word for word): There is no network neutrality now. The goal is network neutrality. Many use the term network neutrality when...

You know it is a strange conference when Dave Dederer , non-touring member of Presidents of the United States of America , is on stage just before Senator John Edwards . Dave is talking about how he's no longer in the music business but is now in...

Chris introduced John Edwards by begging the audience to be nice. This could be interesting. The Senator says he came to listen, not to make a speech. So, Marc Canter is taking him up on it. Marc is very focused on cojones today. Marc described himself...

A nice complement from Guy Kawasaki on the blog feature in Word 2007. I was a pretty hardcore Mac user from 1986 - 1994 and always thought that Guy did an amazing job evangelizing the Mac platform. "And speaking of Microsoft, I tried using Word in Office...

Zeyad has posted more information on the XHTML output from Word's new blog feature: Word XHTML - Mapping styles to semantics . Please read and comment. Thanks.

You know it is a strange conference when Dave Dederer , non-touring member of Presidents of the United States of America , is on stage just before Senator John Edwards . Dave is talking about how he's no longer in the music business but is now in...

Attending Gnomedex for the second year in a row. Guess that really labels me as a geek.

Zeyad has more details on the XHTML output of the blog feature. His latest post focuses on compliance and styles . Give it a read and add your thoughts via comments.

I didn't mean to disappear. Last weekend's long break for Memorial Day broke my stride. I had a wonderful weekend by the way. My two older sons took me to the Sasquatch Festival on Sunday as an early Father's Day present. The day before the crowds were...