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Changing Default Control and Form/Report Settings

This is one of those features that almost nobody knows about because it isn't very discoverable. In Access 2007 (and earlier), you can change the default property values for any new controls in a form or report. Here are the necessary steps: Open/Create Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 4 Comments

In case you are having issues installing Office 2007 Beta 2 Techinical Refresh (B2TR)

For troubleshooting Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) installs, you might want to check out this Knowledge Base (KB) article . The most common problem that I heard so far is the that to install the B2TR update, you need at least 2 gigabytes Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 4:00 PM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) is out

I haven't seen any news about this yet, but it's already available for download. Check out this post on some of the changes in B2TR. 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 Technical Refresh Important : Prior to applying this Beta 2 Technical Refresh update, Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:02 AM by ThirdOfFive | 2 Comments

Trying out Access 2007 without installing anything

This is sort of old new by now, but in case you didn't give it a try yet (or couldn't because Microsoft's servers were too busy), you should use the Office 2007 Beta 2 Test Drive a try. It is very cool way to try Access 2007 without having to worry about Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Access 2007 Beta 2 Misconception #2 - Ribbons morph completely depending on context

Another misconception that I read is regarding the new Ribbon interface: some people apparently are expecting the tabs on the ribbon to change completly as the context changes. This is very untrue: each of the tabs in the ribbon are pretty much fixed Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 1 Comments

Office 2007 Beta 2 is out...

As reported here and here (for now :) ). This build is leaps and bounds faster and better than Beta 1 (or Beta 1 Technical Refresh, for that matter). Make sure to test out your solutions and be sure to use Microsoft' beta place support to ask and log Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | 4 Comments

Screenshots: Access 2007 (and other Office apps) running on Vista

I bumped into this on the web and thought it would be interesting to share. This website has some screenshots of Office 2007 Beta1 Technical Refresh (no, it's not Beta2 but it's definetely cleaner than Beta1) running on Vista. Here's the overall picture Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Office 2007: See the new UI in action

A video (" Welcome to the new Microsoft Office Interface ") is now available with the new Office Ribbon in action. Take a look at it - it's pretty cool. Nitpick: Access 2007 was not shown in it. But that's fine, we should save the best for later or it Read More...
Posted Monday, March 27, 2006 11:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)

Office 12 named 2007 Microsoft Office System

In celebration, I'll update the category titles. Here's the news: C|Net , Microsoft Watch , PC World , Info Week . Of course there is more, but how much more do you need on a name change? Sheesh. and here's the official press release. The pricing page Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:59 AM by ThirdOfFive | 4 Comments

Performance: who cares? Apparently customers do.

This is sort of old news (Performance Analysis: Office vs. OpenOffice [1] and [2] ), but it was particularly cool to see how some of the performance work ends up getting such a visibility. Don't forget to read the comments up on slashdot - always fun. Read More...
Posted Friday, February 10, 2006 9:00 AM by ThirdOfFive | (Comments Off)
 
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