Mike Fried's Blog
A semi-weekly collection of tips, tricks, and details about PowerPoint and Development.
Some opinions on the computer industry
First of all, a disclaimer: These words are the opinion of Mike Fried, a software engineer and...
Author: Mike Fried Date: 05/04/2008
A shoutout to a good blog.
I have been reading I.M. Wright's writings for a while now, and just recently received an email...
Author: Mike Fried Date: 05/03/2008
Milestones, Cuts, and what you aren't going to ship.
At Microsoft, there is a mantra repeated often by people who have been at the company a long time:...
Author: Mike Fried Date: 10/23/2007
The hardest part of writing successful software
The hardest part of writing successful software is legacy. Once your software succeeds, you now have...
Author: Mike Fried Date: 01/08/2007
Good stuff in many blogs all around
I was recently looking around at some good old blog posts and some of their comments by other...
Author: Mike Fried Date: 12/28/2006
Future thoughts
First of all, I want to wish everyone happy holidays. I also want to give a shoutout to my...
Author: Mike Fried Date: 12/18/2006
Creating a Custom Task Pane in PowerPoint 2007
To start off a series of blog posts, I'm going to talk about creating a Custom Task Pane using...
Author: Mike Fried Date: 11/01/2006
On account of not posting for a while...
One of the reasons I started this blog was to address what I felt are the needs of the Office...
Author: Mike Fried Date: 09/29/2006
No post today
My life has been a little extra busy this week and I've had no time to blog.
Author: Mike Fried Date: 09/13/2006
PowerPoint Table Styles XML (Part 1)
One of the coolest parts of the new tables feature in PowerPoint is that you can style tables. The...
Author: Mike Fried Date: 09/06/2006
Happy Labor Day Weekend
I joined Microsoft the day after Labor Day (September 4th) in 2001. For those of you reading this...
Author: Mike Fried Date: 09/02/2006
The Selection and Visibility Pane (Part 2 - Using the Task Pane)
Today we will look at how you use the Selection and Visibility Pane to edit the contents of a...
Author: Mike Fried Date: 08/30/2006
The Selection and Visibility Pane (Part 1 - Design)
The Selection and Visibility Pane (called "Selection Pane" for short) is a new feature in Office...
Author: Mike Fried Date: 08/26/2006
Topics for future posts
Here are some topics which I intend to discuss in the future in one or more posts. When these topics...
Author: Mike Fried Date: 08/23/2006
First things first...
This is my first post to my blog. Before I get into the details that I came here to write, I wanted...
Author: Mike Fried Date: 08/19/2006