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March 2004 - Posts

Sunday, March 28, 2004 11:49 AM

MS Office Photo Editor: I miss you and I am not alone!

I never really need to do a lot with editing images - just enough to be able to apply soften or shapen images, an occasional rotation, but the big one is being able to apply a transparency. For that reason, I was a big fan of Microsoft Office's (thrown-in,
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Friday, March 26, 2004 7:13 AM

1,000,000 Served.

C|Net reported that Sun's main distributor of Star Office has just eclipsed the one million mark in units sold. Now before you get feisty and say " Gee... only a few hundred million behind Microsoft Office ", think about that. First off, to sell a million
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Wednesday, March 24, 2004 1:29 AM

Outlook 2003: Getting more Junk mail? Update your filter.

Seems the spammers have circumvented the original junk mail filters in Outlook 2003. This really worked well for the first five or six months of public release, but now I have been getting more Cìális offers than I can keep up with (if you know what i
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Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:10 PM

Update Office Lately? Better check your VSTO...

OK... this may be old news to some, but I just had to figure out why the Office core dll was not being referenced correctly from the GAC when I created a new VSTO project. Seems that some recent updates to core Office 2003 have tripped up interop assemblies
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:07 AM

RSS coming to Star Office?

Sun Microsystems has just announced that Tim Bray, co-author of XML and industry proponent of RSS, has taken a position with Sun to work on XML-based syndication technologies and advanced search. Connecting the obvious dots, how long will it be until
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Friday, March 12, 2004 1:26 PM

Just go away!

Ever try to uninstall or reinstall a program that uses a .msi and it just won't work? Ever want to clean a program out of the Control Panel's Add or Remove Programs? Just zap it using msizap.exe which ships with the Windows Installer SDK Read more about
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Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:20 PM

Free MS Office? Can't even give it away anymore :-s

Seems Uncle Sam doesn't even want Office 2003 for free ! Guess free is just not cheap enough ;-)
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Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:32 PM

I second that thought...

I had mentioned a couple of posts back that MS ought to focus on a Longhorn-next version release of Office and not some half-baked interim build. Joe Wilcox of the Microsoft Monitor Weblog wrote this a couple days ago - and I guess he couldn't agree more..
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Wednesday, March 03, 2004 9:09 AM

More for Office Admins...

This link for the Office 2003 Editions Administrative Updates is key to making sure that you don't miss a critical update. Also, have you ever checked out kbAlertz.com ? This is an excellent (still free) service that keeps you on top of Microsoft Knowledge
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Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:58 AM

Tools for Office Sys. Admins

Need to manage a bunch of Office-loaded machines? The Office Resource Kit for 2003 has a lot of neat tools...
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