OK- my title is a little misleading- we don't really have any documentation for the Outlook, PowerPoint or other Office PIAs. We only have the for Word and Excel if you are using Whidbey (VS 2005). However! My colleague, Eric Carter, started an effort...

I was alerted to this article today by Velle, one of my colleagues at Microsoft: Word, Excel Employed As Systems Interfaces I rarely read something that is reason for unreserved delight such as this article. This ISV, Meridian Systems Inc., came...

I have learned (through the school of hard knocks) that managing one's manager is vital to achieving personal success in the workplace. Here at Microsoft (with armies of managers) the need is pronounced. I have been surprised over the years by how many...

Bill Gates spoke about the next generation of Office products at the CEO Summit . If there is one thing I have learned about our Chief Software Architect since coming to work at Microsoft it is this: he does not waste words. I've never met him, but I...

Here's an article with public statements about Office 12: Facing 'new world of work,' Microsoft locks up Office I like to read the reactions people have to the public disclosures that occur. For my part, I never blog about non-public software initiatives...

Found this book: Upgrader's Guide to Microsoft Office System 2003 . I don't know if it's any good,but what I thought was curious is that the book seems to be targeted toward users (make's sense), but it includes plenty about the XML support in Office...

I found this site that explains WordProcessingML in French . I love the intro: " nous allons essayer de démystifier le WordML " I appreciate the drama, the foreshadowing, and the romance-infused gripping tone: "we will attempt to demystify WordML...

So, I have been working on an app that uses Outlook data, and I created some custom .NET user controls on a form. I decided to use the ListView control on the form, and it is pretty sweet. It has a View property that you can set to "Details". Then, the...

Two of my buddies, Office Zealot kingpin Chris Kunicki and Excel zealot (and always colorful) Charles Maxson , just finished a project for us (Microsoft), and they delivered a royal flush: Excel XML Toolbox . If you remember, we released the Word XML...

One of my colleagues and I were messing around with Word bookmarks, doing some testing etc. We put together a case where there are multiple bookmarks, but the beginning and ending of bookmarks is unclear. Look at my screenshot: What is puzzling...

As a PM I need to have a broad yet also deep view of what we deliver. I find myself scrutinizing readme files one minute and comparing source code to a spec, responding in a newsgroup, or checking up with a partner the next minute. One of the things...

There are times when working on technical projects where you hit a roadblock. There is some technical glitch, and you begin doing newsgroup searches using every keyword permutation you can think of. You know you can do some kind of work-around, but you...