I have been working on a solution that includes the auto-generation of Word documents using XML , and the resulting documents include a watermark . Inserting watermarks for end-users is as easy as it probably will ever be in Word 2003. All they need to...

As the many readers of my blog know, I'm all about blogs (thanks to Scoble and Chris Kunicki for getting me started with my blog two years ago). Blog-enabling Office applications is a no-brainer in a lot of situations. But, it has not always been easy...

One of the requests that comes around every now and again is this: Can you make it so that when a user prints a doc from Word, embedded controls don't print? The answer is "Yes".... IF the controls are floating rather than inline. For example, if you...

I am working on a cool Outlook add-in, and it involves knowing if the Outlook Reading Pane is displayed or not and what its size is. This is an extra little challenge because the Outlook OM does not expose any info about the pane. One might guess that...

While answering some posts in the NG's, I found one by Jay Harlow, Outlook MVP. He mentioned how pleased he was with our add-in support in VSTO 2005. That is pure goodness. Anyway, in our exchange, he mentioned that he has two good VSTO Outlook samples...

Have you ever written great code for a Word template and then wished you had it in another template as well? It's not as hard as it may seem to move your code from one template to another. You could use good 'ol copy/paste and re-create the entire thing...

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about VBA migration . My main contention was that migration has a lot more to do with re-thinking how the solution is put together than just changing language syntax. The .NET Framework and the advantages of VSTO 2005 should...

We just wouldn't be Microsoft if we weren't already thinking about the version after the version after the version we haven't yet released. Most of it is kept Top Secret not just to protect our IP, but also in the best interest of our customers. Well...

Document Protection in Word's XML file format: it's not the kind of thing that inspires poets, but it's great stuff nonetheless. On a recent discussion alias within Microsoft, a project manager asked how to make a document unalterable, except for certain...