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New Excel MVP and user group

Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:39 PM by dstrange
Good to see the Excel User Group site that is run by the new MVP for Excel, Nick Hodge .  Read More...
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Office Live Workspace beta out today

Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 6:12 PM by dstrange
Before you get too excited, this is only launching in the US however this is still an important milestone as it means the functionality is public.  If you preregistered for Office Live Workspace in the US you will be able to start using the service Read More...
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Google don't use their own stuff - so why should you?

Posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 6:54 PM by dstrange
This amused me today from a friend of mine who noticed this. A job application on the Google website for the " Executive Assistant to the Executive Director, Google.org - San Francisco " Check out point 3 from the mandatory job qualifications: Requirements Read More...
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Selling out

Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 1:38 PM by dstrange
Remember that episode of the apprentice when they had to sell stuff on a shopping channel? Well it was my turn on Saturday night when I appeared on QVC 's Small Office Home Office show to sell Home and Student Edition at the very good price of £63.24. Read More...
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Clean up with MOPPS

Posted Monday, September 24, 2007 7:43 PM by dstrange
This week we launch Microsoft Office Performance Point Server 2007 . And what more fitting a way to celebrate than to give away coffee and muffins. Tony Crowhurst, the product manager here for MOPPS is going to have a busy day. Is that an order coming Read More...
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Excel users can all pivot

Posted Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:28 PM by dstrange
So after the third person in a week stopped me in the corridor while I was walking from the coffee shop to lunch etc. to interrupt me from my clearly very busy and important schedule only to ask me how to do calculations on data in a pivot table, I started Read More...
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Pivot tables - they aren't that hard

Posted Thursday, August 23, 2007 2:21 PM by dstrange
Since I mentioned using calculated fields in Excel , I've had a few questions through about what I meant. I can see this is an area people are confused about with more people wanting me to record the steps in a video. However, this is already part of Read More...
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Calculated fields and formulas in pivot tables

Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 5:47 PM by dstrange
You've been meaning to get round to it for years haven't you? Did you realise that there are some brilliant training courses online that can help. A much underadvertised resource IMHO is the office online training. It takes you through the lesson with Read More...
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Better decisions faster: Blogcast demo

Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:08 PM by dstrange
Continuing my series of blogcast demos, this week I am talking about business intelligence , showing how customers can derive more value from their data and turn information into insight. Things I cover in this demo: Report Center in SharePoint Server Read More...
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Blogcast: my launch demo

Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 6:05 PM by dstrange
For the launch of Exchange Server 2007, Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, I put together this demo and have been hawking it round pretty much every event since (well that's just good reuse right?). This demo required a fair amount of Read More...
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Nobody likes a SmartArt: 2 top tips

Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 7:24 PM by dstrange
Two things I learnt today. Excel in dual screen If you are working on two excel spreadsheets you can run two instances of Excel at the same time. Don't launch Excel by clicking on the file or from recent documents but instead just launch the application Read More...
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February top customer support calls on Office

Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 10:51 AM by dstrange
Every month I get a report from support which tells me what the most common support issues are with my product. Now that the 2007 release is out, we are starting to get some more support calls and a few issues come up regularly and are therefore worth Read More...
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First Look: 2007 Microsoft Office system

Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 7:01 PM by dstrange
I've decided to create a new book review category and tell you what I think of the new books. As I'm given books to review by publishers, I'll write a review. Title: First Look at 2007 Microsoft Office system. Author: Katherine Murray Publisher: MS Press Read More...
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Excel 2007 multi-threaded calculation boosts performance

Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:04 PM by dstrange
Some mention of this was made on the Excel blog about the performance improvements that can be derived from Excel 2007 due to the new multi-threading capability but I don't think people are aware of what a huge difference this can make. A quick overview Read More...
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Hallelujah! beta 1 gets a face lift

Posted Thursday, March 09, 2006 7:04 PM by dstrange
Today the beta 1 technical refresh got released internally and it looks great :-) First impressions New look is nicely polished. This really does look the business now. Its fast. The live previews are stunning. Galleries are more extensive and rich More Read More...
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