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I received a mail this weekend responding to my Friday post on Super Tooltips asking a simple question: "It seems like you introduce every new feature in Office 12 with a code name. Why not use the 'real' name?" The short answer is: "Because we don't
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Here's an Outlook party trick suitable for cruise ships, family reunions, and kids birthday parties. Up until now this secret trick has been known only to Outlook insiders--a kind of "secret handshake" passed through the generations of Outlook team members.
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Thursday and Friday are Microsoft holidays, so the next new post will be on Monday. In the meantime, here's a "holiday" treat for you. Thanksgiving in the United States is a holiday that always occurs on Thursday. However, one year Microsoft moved it
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Open the About dialog box in any Office program. Near the top, you'll find the build number of the program you're using. If you are using Office 2003, you'll probably see something like 11.5608.5606. If you are using Office 12, you might see something
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I attended college for the first time when I was three years old. The College of Wooster Nursery School , that is. One of the best features of nursery school was that they went to great lengths not to leave anyone out of activities. Probably the most
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My earliest memory of Microsoft: I was 4 years old in the fall of 1980 when my dad brought home the first computer either of us had likely ever seen in person: a TRS-80 Color Computer I , brought home straight from Radio Shack. Loaded up with 4K of RAM,
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Tomorrow, I'm going to introduce the keyboard model for the Office 12 user interface. But before I do that, I would feel remiss starting the conversation about keyboards without introducing my unappreciated friend, the Dvorak keyboard. I'm a Dvorak typist.
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