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This is a true story: I'm riding my bike home from work. It's a pretty long ride—almost 18 miles. I'm about a third of the way into it, past the first big intersection and pedaling along the shoulder up a slight grade when my cell phone rings. It's my
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It’s been awhile, but for what it’s worth, the time has been spent planning a great Word vNext. Stay tuned for vNext posts. Anyway, while we have been working on vNext, we have certainly not forgotten about Word vNow (Word 2007) or Word vPast (Word 2003,
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If you are a fan of keyboard shortcuts and wonder what Word's new UI means for them, or if you don't know what a keyboard shortcut is, or if you are just tired of taking your hands off of your keyboard to use your mouse in Word, I highly recommend checking
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Today marks the business launch of the 2007 Office system (e.g. the software is available to businesses). A blog has been setup to capture all the goodness of the actual launch event (thoughts, sights, sounds) and can be found here . Give it a look. -
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This morning Office announced the launch of a program to license the Office User Interface design on a royalty-free basis. This basically allows licensees to create UI components and applications that have the same "Ribbon-esque" look and behavior as
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I'll be taking some time off and visiting lovely Las Vegas starting tomorrow to celebrate the release of the RTM Compatibility Pack . If you remember my first post , the Compatibility Pack is what I've been spending a lot of my time on, so I'm pretty
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Thank you to everyone who beta tested Word 2007 and helped enable the 2007 Office system to be released to manufactures . Nice! If you'd like to try out the release to market (RTM) version of Word 2007, starting Dec. 1 in the U.S. and Canada (and later
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Check out the retail packaging for the 2007 Office system & Windows Vista…Nice Jonathan
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For some great information on the 2007 Microsoft Office system, check out the Microsoft Office webcasts (below) & the brand new Developer Roadmap for the 2007 Microsoft Office System . Tips and Tricks for the 2007 Office System: Great Document Formatting
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Word 2007 (along with Excel and PowerPoint 2007) has new XML based default file format (.docx). I've referred to Brian Jones' blog for more info on these new formats before, and highly recommend checking out his recent post summarizing why we've adopted
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Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 have new XML based default file formats (Word -- .docx, Excel -- .xlsx, and PowerPoint -- .pptx). New formats?! You may be wondering : "How will these new formats affect previous releases of Office?" Or, put a bit more
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