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February 2004 - Posts

Sunday, February 29, 2004 12:20 AM

Office 200x: When do you want it?

I think it would be logical to tie the next release of Office to Windows Longhorn. And I am willing to wait. This way all of the resources on the Office team could simply focus on optimizing Office .Next so that it leverages the next revolutionary OS
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Saturday, February 28, 2004 10:12 AM

Office: New and Improved!

We saw with the InfoPath 2003 Service Pack preview this week that the Microsoft is willing to change the way it lets new features come out in Office. Traditionally, in the past you had to wait full a full product cycle to get new functionality, so this
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Monday, February 23, 2004 9:26 AM

InfoPath: IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE!

InfoPathers delight! Today the InfoPath 2003 Toolkit for Visual Studio .NET released! You have been set free of script and can pursue sanity and sanctity in a professional development environment... Note : You will need InfoPath 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP-1)
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Monday, February 23, 2004 8:59 AM

It's in the bag! (Property Bag that is...)

I've been working on a managed smart tag with a fairly complex XML payload and thought that wouldn't it be nice to automatically see if my XML string being generated correctly? So I quickly wrote the following code to use Word comments to annotate my
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Sunday, February 22, 2004 10:21 AM

PPT: PowerPoint season is coming

To me, springtime seems to be the kick-off of conference season, anchored by Microsoft Tech*Ed. So if you are one of those laboring over content for an upcoming show, check out these sources: First on PowerPoint, the essential cornerstone of any talk,
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Friday, February 13, 2004 7:01 PM

Word: Important Update

Word 2003 Update: KB830000 If you use Word 2003 and you haven't run this yet, stop reading this immediately and run this. It will save you from intense amounts of pain. Note Microsoft recommends that you use the Office Update site to determine if your
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Wednesday, February 11, 2004 3:57 PM

Word: Document Map - Friend or Foe?

I like the Document Map feature in MS Word an awful lot. I use it for navigating large documents that are ?works in progress?. A very nice alternative to the scroll bar... But today it seems to have attacked me. Working on a large doc, Word kept crashing
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Monday, February 09, 2004 7:25 AM

StarOffice Zealot? You think not?! Well, why not Mr. Kunicki?

I wondered why Chris said he’d rather fight than switch and he thinks companies should feel the same. So I started to think... but more so from the personal level... not the company, after all it’s the users, not the companies that really
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Sunday, February 08, 2004 8:42 PM

OWC: Where are they now?

I think one of those look-back shows like "Behind the Music" or "Where are they now?" should be applied to the Office Web Components. What a great idea that got totally forgotten about... Whether it was because of the licensing or the complexity or a
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Sunday, February 08, 2004 8:34 PM

Blinded by OZ

Are you coming to us in a resolution greater than 1024 x 768? If so, you are experiencing the blinding mustard-colored borders that scream at you while tearing out your retinas? A nice touch for those of you who thought that larger monitor was going to
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