The "Voice" of Office Development
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We have published some new content about VBA in Office 2010: Getting Started with VBA in Office 2010 Getting Started with VBA in Excel 2010 Getting Started with VBA in Outlook 2010 Getting Started with VBA in PowerPoint 2010 We have an additional article, Read More...
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OK—my title is kind of colloquial. But I'm in a hurry, and the title conveys the idea well enough. Here's the deal: I have a spreadsheet with a bunch of important data. But, some of the most distinctive data are all merged into one cell. To make the data Read More...
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In my last post , I introduced the basic recipe of how to customize the Microsoft Office Backstage view. I showed how to set up the XML and where to place it. Now, we'll take a look at how to add event code so that when a user interacts with your custom Read More...
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One of the presentations I delivered at SPC 2009 was the title of this blog post. Don't worry—I'll be posting the video when it becomes available. And, we've got some MSDN content coming out before RTM that will show you the details around programming Read More...
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Whew! What a week at the SharePoint Conference! Let me re-cap some highlights for you and talk for a moment about " Real User Value ". On Monday, I delivered a session called "What's New in Office 2010 for Developers". It was very well attended, and the Read More...
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Not infrequently I am asked, “So, should I use VBA? Is it going to be around in Office 2010? Is it supported? Should I migrate away from VBA now? Can I count on this technology?” (Here I go with a response!) These are fair questions, because customers Read More...
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The developer community for Microsoft Office grand and healthy. And, the knowledge and expertise in our community is pretty vast and deep. To make it easier for us to stay alert about events, up-coming content, etc. and more easily share ideas we now Read More...
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You might be tempted to think that, given that I’m so-called “insider” I’d know all about everything in Office 2010. But, the fact is that there is so much to the products in Office that few people can know it all and know it early. So, this brings me Read More...
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Buckle in! This is a full-throttled post! If you’ve been following the press and the excitement around our partner conference (WPC) this week you have heard that we have opened up the treasure-house of information regarding Office 2010 . I’m going to Read More...
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So, I just bought 5 copies of Office 2007 for a friend of mine in the good land of Minnesota. He’s upgrading all of his home computers and those for his kids scattered about the country. One of the first things he’ll notice is the new Office Fluent UI, Read More...
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As I spent a ton of time at Tech Ed, I was super impressed by the immense amount of interest in Office 2010. I know the excitement will only grow, and one of the best ways for you, the devoted Office Developer, to get inside, in-depth, in-person exposure Read More...
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TechEd 2009 is a done deal. I wanted to toss out a few observations from the event. Here’s what really stood out: 1) The overall mood was pleasantly up-beat and the attendance was solid. The economic times have hit every budget everywhere, but the tempo Read More...
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I’m have been a fan of VBA since its inception. I instantly saw how powerful the Office applications could be because they came with an impressively rich set of APIs, tools, and capabilities. Along with my buddies, Chris Kunicki and Charles Maxson, I Read More...
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I recent wrote (“ Twitter from Excel 2007 ”) about how Chandoo (Plus JP) caught my attention with their quirky take on updating Twitter from Excel. In there, I said I would lay down an expanded, more useful version. In so doing, I believe I have also Read More...
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In a recent post to a blog, a writer, Guy Creese , writes that the key to saving money in IT is ‘granularity’. In short- he suggests that the IT cost-saving key is to figure out what the basic use experiences are for people and match them to the cheapest Read More...
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