Have you heard? There's an app contest going on and you're invited! App contest ? That's right! Vivek Narasimhan, Product Marketing Manager for Office and SharePoint, recently announced the app contest in the official Apps for Office and SharePoint...

Dan Battagin, Principal Program Manager on the Excel team, authored today's post. Recently on the Excel blog, the Excel team announced The Excel Button - Bringing Excel Everywhere . The button allows developers to bring the power of Excel to data on...

In this post, I’ll highlight some of the new features for developers in Word 2013 Preview. As Frank Rice mentioned in his recent post, What’s new in Office 2013 Preview for developers , the most exciting new feature in Office 2013 Preview...

Frank Rice, Senior Programming Writer, Office Developer Documentation team, authored today's post. By this time, you have undoubtedly seen all the jazz and excitement surrounding the launch of Microsoft Office 2013 Preview. In this post, I want to...

Frank Rice, Senior Programming Writer, Office Developer Documentation team, authored today's post. The Open XML SDK 2.5 CTP for Microsoft Office, a pre-release build of the next version of Open XML SDK 2.0, is now available for download! Most applications...

A week ago today, at a press event in San Francisco, Steve Ballmer unveiled the new Office and announced a public Customer Preview. This next release is a bold step for Microsoft and has been described as “ the most transformational release ”...

Most of you must have already heard yesterday that the Windows 8 Release Preview is available. This public release follows a series of earlier developer and consumer preview releases which aroused controversy. Today's reviews have generally been positive...

(This blog post is the second part in a series of two blog posts. The first blog post was published to the Visio Insights blog Working with Connected Diagrams Programmatically, part 1 .) Visio 2010 provides a wealth of features for working with connected...

Do you use SharePoint and Outlook? I recently acquired an article and sample code from one of our Microsoft consultants, Ben Roscorla, to show how to create an Outlook add-in to support a functionally rich and yet visually consistent experience to...

The table in this post lists the layouts available in Word 2010 for SmartArt Graphics. You can insert a SmartArt Graphic that uses one of these layouts in the Word user interface (UI) by clicking SmartArt on the Insert tab, which opens the Choose a SmartArt...