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It's been a while since I last wrote in this space. Many of you have been kind enough to send me e-mail sometime in the last few months, making sure that I was OK and wondering if I was planning to write here anymore. Was I abducted by aliens? Put into
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I know in my last post I said that I'd be gone for a few days… and now those few days have stretched into a few weeks. One of the reasons I've been off the blog for a while is that we've been extremely busy putting the final touches on Office 2007. Now
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Today is my 30th birthday. Ten years ago--with college to finish, legal drinking still in my future, and no idea what I was going to do with my life--30 seemed like a remote, hazy, unfathomably distant milestone. The whole world of possibilities was still
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It's been a long time since I wrote off-topic, but I have 30 minutes to kill in Copenhagen airport, so here's a quick weekend send-off. This week I've been in London on business. I had a few minutes free on my way to a meeting on Wednesday, so I decided
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Many people have reported here on the blog or through e-mail that they are having problems activating their copy of Office 2007 Beta 2. I’m really sorry this isn’t working well, but that’s kind of to be expected with beta software sometimes. The activation
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This week I'm out of town on a bicostal business trip (currently overlooking Union Square in San Francisco) and unfortunately I won't be able to post any more articles this week. So instead I want to take the opportunity to ask you: what would you like
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It has been said that nothing is as boring as blogging about blogging. Which makes this article among the most boring I've ever written. Even just typing "boring" three times made me yawn. ( Are yawns contagious? ) Anyway, when people start blogs, particularly
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I was hoping it wouldn't come to this, but after six months of relatively civil discourse, a few people have decided to flood the blog with obscene and otherwise off-topic comments. I had to remove over sixty comments just yesterday. Although I reserve
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Today marks the start of February, the " month of love ." In commemoration, I want to ask you a question: What software do you love, and why? Some members of the high-tech illuminati start and end their discussions of design in terms of RAZR phones, iPods,
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Due to the holidays here in the United States and elsewhere, many people are taking time off of work, away from their computers, and away from blogs. I am no exception, and my blog will be on hiatus for two weeks. If you're new to the blog and looking
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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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Before I start today, a special note: if you haven't done so yet, you might want to read yesterday's entry . We shipped Office 12 Beta 1 (yea!) and I pulled together a set of articles designed to jumpstart your knowledge of the Ribbon, contextual tabs,
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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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