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Can you all update your sections of the document and email it back to me?

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:59 PM by dstrange
Professional life teaches you to make adjustments to your normal mode of working at times.  Sometimes you have to adapt your style and consciously do things differently.  If you've ever worked in a big blue chip, you will be familiar with this Read More...
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Mail merge bug with Tablet PC

Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:24 AM by dstrange
If like me you are doing your Christmas card labels at the moment and you use a tablet PC then watch out for this bug. You run the mail merge wizard from Outlook (or Word) but when you update labels, it only puts the address block on the first two and 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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Training on SharePoint and InfoPath

Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 1:00 PM by dstrange
I've decided to blog smaller items a bit more often as they occur to me so here's a question I answered today which might help others - where can I get some training on SharePoint and InfoPath? Good place to start is the online training at office online 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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Blogcast: Protect and manage content

Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 6:46 PM by dstrange
I must confess I was a bit hungover when I recorded this one so I do suggest you run it speeded up (ctrl-shift-G) to cut down my pause for thought gaps. This really is a very important topic so I apologise for not sounding more exuberant while demoing Read More...
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Project Collaboration demo blogcast

Posted Wednesday, April 11, 2007 2:59 PM by dstrange
Here is my latest demonstration: project collaboration . What I'm showing is the common scenario of a few people just wanting to work together on a project and get more from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and some of the desktop applications. 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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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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Blogcast: Tagging in the 2007 Office authoring experience

Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 11:08 AM by dstrange
Renewing my commitment to recording the demos that I find myself doing frequently, I've recorded this one about tagging. We used to talk about metadata as the term for this - that is data about data - but I've noticed that people now refer to it as tagging, 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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Blogcast: OneNote 2007

Posted Saturday, March 18, 2006 2:19 PM by dstrange
I've been meaning to record a OneNote 2007 demo for a while so here it is. OneNote 2007 is a very important application now in Office. You will see it is included in both the Home and Student Edition and in the Enterprise Edition . It really is a very Read More...
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Word counter in Word 2007

Posted Monday, March 13, 2006 8:03 AM by dstrange
A lot of people, particularly journalists who write articles for a living, ask me whether we can put a word counter into the mini-bar for them. Better than that, we have put a word counter into the Word status bar. This displays the number of words in 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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