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Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:12 PM

Triskaidecaphobia

Office 13 is going to actually be called Office 14, since there are some people who assign some negative significance to the number 13 (see Triskaidekaphobia ). Since this is clearly a significant concern in the world of computing, it seems natural to
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Friday, April 04, 2008 12:37 PM

OpenXML Standardized and Sour Grapes

Earlier this week, the OpenXML document format was standardized by the ISO/IEC, with a huge 86% of voting countries favoring the format ( news here , among other places). While this is interesting and a win for anyone using Microsoft Office document formats
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Monday, March 31, 2008 11:50 AM

Outlook Performance Tips

I've been living with Outlook 2007 since it shipped, and it's been pretty painful, but my life is in it so I'm stuck with it. I've posted some Outlook tips in the past about how to deal with it not shutting down properly, and that has grown into a fairly
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Monday, July 02, 2007 6:00 PM

Some Outlook Relief Perhaps

I get a lot of email, like many people in our industry. A lot of it is SPAM, but it's rare that any of that makes it to my inbox between SpamBayes and server-side anti-spam stuff running at ORCSWeb (the best hosting company around, IMHO). Nonetheless,
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Friday, April 13, 2007 11:32 AM

Outlook 2007 POP3 Slowness

Outlook 2007 has a number of issues with performance, one of which relates to downloads taking a very long time with POP3 email accounts. Microsoft has recently published a KB article that should fix some scenarios where this occurs, specifically on Windows
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Friday, January 05, 2007 12:57 PM

Free Office Professional 2007 and Office Groove 2007

Here’s an exciting announcement related to the upcoming launch events for Windows Vista and Office 2007: Receive your FREE copy of Microsoft Office Professional 2007 and Microsoft Office Groove 2007* when you attend a Windows Vista, 2007 Microsoft
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Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:19 PM

Excel Pivot Chart from Reporting Services Video

Last week I wrote about some fun I was having with Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts in Excel . Well, yesterday I got around to recording a screencast video of how to create Pivot Chart reports using Reporting Services, Excel, and SoftArtisans Officewriter.
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Friday, October 27, 2006 8:35 AM

Excel, Pivot Tables, and OfficeWriter

I’ve been playing around with trying to analyze some performance data that spans numerous periods over time as well as multiple channels. Using SQL I’m able to get some results that look something like this: Channel | Period | Activity A |
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Thursday, June 08, 2006 9:50 AM

Google Spreadsheets Announced

From Online Media Daily : Google Unveils Spreadsheet App by Shankar Gupta, Wednesday, Jun 7, 2006 6:00 AM ET IN A MOVE THAT GIVES consumers another reason to use Google for more than just Web searches, the company Tuesday released a spreadsheet program
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Friday, June 02, 2006 7:39 PM

Adobe, PDF, Microsoft, and Office

Office 2007 won’t include Save As PDF by default, but you can still get it as a free download. More information here – I’ll save the analysis for others. http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2006/06/02/613702.aspx Share this post:
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:12 AM

Does Microsoft Buy In To .NET?

Every now and then some high profile personality, perhaps one who once had close ties to Microsoft, about how .NET is really a total failure. How it's clear that it isn't going anywhere. That, as proof of these assertions, Microsoft cannot even manage
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Friday, February 10, 2006 11:28 AM

Cool AJAX Implementation

I've recently been talking with the folks at FarPoint Technologies and took a look at their AJAX implementation of a web-based spreadsheet . It's very cool! It's essentially like having Excel embedded in your browser, complete with forumulas, and you
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Sunday, January 29, 2006 6:19 PM

Outlook Calendar Default Month View

Can somebody tell me how to alter Outlook so that the default calendar month view shows me a useful time period (e.g. the future, not the past)? For instance, today is the 29th of January, 2006. When I open up my calendar, I'm going to expect to see things
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Monday, October 10, 2005 12:21 AM

New Phone - Samsung i730 PocketPC Phone

My wife's phone broke recently, so Friday we went and bought a new phone - a Samsung i730 . I wanted to try something that would sync with my email and calendar, and she liked what she had before, so she got my previous phone and I got the new phone.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005 4:40 PM

PDC - Jim Allchin's Keynote

Jim Allchin gave the second keynote, which included many demos from a variety of Microsoft teams and a couple of partners. Most of it centered around new features that will be available in Vista. For example, their virtual memory system will be able to
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