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January 2004 - Posts

Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:38 AM

Word: Pop the Balloons

I just saw this new KB article ( KB832661 ) on how you can turn off the balloons for comments in Word 2002(XP)/2003. I guess since there was a KB released on it, other people find it a bit cumbersome too to always have the entire margin taken over by
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 7:58 AM

It's about the user, stupid.

Developers like to complain. Seems like a prerequisite of the trade. “This doesn’t work right” “That is too hard to implement” “Why did they do it that way?” Yes… complain they do – ok we do... But
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Friday, January 23, 2004 10:45 AM

Weird Behavoir? Clean Your Cache...

I was working late last night on one of those mysterious problems. Too late... I was editing a working, managed smart tag that refused to work after edits. Simply, it refuse to open an XML file that I wanted to use for a list of recognizer terms. First,
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Sunday, January 18, 2004 6:10 PM

Welcome to the Zealot's Corner!

If you have browsed OZ recently, you will have noticed that the site has been redesigned. The impetus behind it was to accommodate the growing number of blogging zealots. It?s been great having folks sign up to join our Office community and of course
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:00 AM

Today() is 38000

Using Excel's internal date function, today (1/14/2004) calculates to a even 38000. This well-rounded event only happens today so I found it an oddity worth noting; esp. since we will have to wait a while for the date to be so 'perfect' again... Yes I
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Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:24 AM

Office + Managed Code = Worth It/Ready?

So as a developer you use Visual Studio.NET and it's really hard to go 'back' to VB or VBA. I agree with you totally, but when you work with Office, it sometimes seems less obvious and more of a debate at this point... Sure .NET managed code is better,
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Friday, January 09, 2004 9:08 AM

Office Content Hosted

I stumbled across this site only4gurus that hosts tons of Microsoft content ranging from samples to slides and whitepapers. I was surprised when I found content from both myself and Chris Kunicki up there... hmmmm... always was worried people actually
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Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:29 AM

Have a Great Moment at Work?

If you do, Microsoft has a contest for you. Simply tell MS how you used Office in your great moment and you could win a Segway. Unfortunately, I used all my great moments up :>0
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Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:22 AM

The dog ate my CD.

CD's aren't a perfect medium. They often become unreadable or as in many cases, simply go missing (Damn things are always running off!). You will be pleased to know that if you ever lose your Microsoft software, as long as you can prove your ownership,
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Tuesday, January 06, 2004 10:06 AM

The XML expansion pack is invalid.

Debugging smart documents in Office 2003? Love <snicker> the debug-time feedback that Excel and Word give you when something is not quite right? Have no idea what the cryptic error messages really mean? You are not alone... Here is a MSDN article
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Monday, January 05, 2004 9:31 AM

VSTO Excel Templates

I often believe what I read at first pass. I am not a natural skeptic - contrary to popular belief ;-) So when the Visual Studio Tools for Office released last fall and documented that Excel Templates did not work with the product, I figured that was
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Monday, January 05, 2004 9:11 AM

Grokker: The Next Google (?)

Grokker Here's an interesting product that is looking to make searching a better experience... So the question is, will people pay $49 to "search better"? What's your vote? BTW love the name!
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