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PowerPoint 12's Eye Candy
Brendan Busch, the Group Program Manager for the PowerPoint and Office graphics group (my group)...
Author: waynekao Date: 12/23/2005
Company Store
ActiveWin has up some pictures of the Microsoft company store. One of the nice benefits of working...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/27/2004
Nudging
Need to move a shape or a picture into an exact position but can't get it positioned just right...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/22/2004
OneNote SP 1
A preview of OneNote Service Pack 1 is out on the web. For those who haven't heard, OneNote is a...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/21/2004
Programming Jokes
The only good programming joke I know: My other car is a cdr. As you may know, car and cdr are from...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/20/2004
PowerPoint Viewer Requires Installation?
Mike Niedringhaus and I had a short thread yesterday about whether the PowerPoint Viewer really...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/16/2004
Frontpage Isn't Just For Novices Anymore
The last version of Frontpage I used was Frontpage 2.0 back in... 1997? Lisa Wollin, a Microsoft...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/15/2004
Presenter View
Another question from Superman: Can I view notes while presenting in PowerPoint? Answer: If you have...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/14/2004
Multimedia in PowerPoint
Figuring out how PowerPoint plays movies and sounds can be perplexing to say the least. Andrew May...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/13/2004
Where are the Fill Effects?
Why fill your autoshapes with just a boring single color when you can do so much more? In the...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/12/2004
Slide Master
Superman asked me yesterday: In PowerPoint, I have a bunch of slides and I want to apply one font to...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/09/2004
Is Washington better than California?
Someone I know is considering moving up to the Seattle area and asked me about my Washington...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/07/2004
Entourage history
Omar Shahine and Dan Crevier wrote some very interesting articles about the history of Entourage...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/06/2004
Positioning objects in Word
If you have objects like shapes or pictures in your Word document, and then move the document text...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/05/2004
Gmail and Hotmail
Google's Gmail was announced last week on April Fool's Day. It's free email with a gigabyte of...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/04/2004
Dead Laptop Battery
Dennis Cheung's rant about PC laptops reminded me of some battery problems I've been having with my...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/03/2004
New PowerPoint Viewer
A big focus of the PowerPoint team for the 2003 release was working on a brand new PowerPoint...
Author: waynekao Date: 04/01/2004
Ellipsis
An ellipsis can be useful to have in a diagram: [diagram picture] I've been asked on several...
Author: waynekao Date: 03/31/2004
Slides From Outline
PowerPoint is great for creating and presenting a presentation, but you may not feel comfortable...
Author: waynekao Date: 03/30/2004
The Apprentice
Two of my coworkers, including our dev manager, got up at 3 AM Saturday morning to audition for The...
Author: waynekao Date: 03/30/2004
Need a Job?
My team is hiring Software Design Engineers. In addition to PowerPoint and OfficeArt, my focus in...
Author: waynekao Date: 03/29/2004
Audio notes
For almost as long as I can remember, laptops and computers have included microphone jacks. But,...
Author: waynekao Date: 03/28/2004
Mac Office HTML
A short follow-up on my Office HTML post. Rick Schaut, a long-time Mac Word developer (with a really...
Author: waynekao Date: 03/27/2004
Office HTML
As a web developer, one of my biggest gripes with Office used to be the bloated HTML it would save...
Author: waynekao Date: 03/27/2004
Command-line and PowerPoint Show files
PowerPoint supports a handful of command-line parameters. Use these to create special Windows...
Author: waynekao Date: 03/26/2004
Linked Excel text boxes
One cool feature in Excel is the ability to link any OfficeArt textbox's value to an Excel cell....
Author: waynekao Date: 03/25/2004
Outlook ink signature
One of the major pieces of work the OfficeArt team did for Office 2003 was add Tablet PC ink...
Author: waynekao Date: 03/24/2004
Slideshow shortcut keys
PowerPoint has a bunch of shortcut keys you can use while presenting in slideshow mode. A few of my...
Author: waynekao Date: 03/23/2004