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I’m so used to using ALT+F11 to bring up the Macro Editor in Office (usually Outlook) that I was at a loss during a moment of inefficiency when I felt the need to click a big shiny “Visual Basic Editor” button.  Where the heck is it?  Where are the Macros and Macro Security buttons as well? Above is the new Ribbon in the main Outlook ...

OneNote MVP extraordinaire Ben Schorr (from Hawaii) and myself are co-presenting at the LegalIT 3.0 conference in Montreal on April 20th-21st.  Join us for our session ''Beyond Cut and Paste : the Importance of Mastering Power User Techniques in MS-Office''. Hope to see you there!

Microsoft is making some great progress with its SQL Server 2008 Data Services initiative. The latest addition to the line-up of data services available online is data mining! You can access the beta version of the data mining tools in the cloud by visiting http://sqlserverdatamining.com/cloud/. At this website, you have 2 options for trying out ...

Attention developers - the DevTeach International Developers Conference in Montreal (December 1-5, 2008) is fast approaching!  There are tons of sessions that are being offered, led by some of the best international speakers.  Be sure to check out some of the Office developer sessions: Building Powerful Office Applications with VSTO ...

The new task for the team was making the URLs from SharePoint go friendly; basically remove the annoying “/Page/” string from the URL.  This has the added benefit that we’ll be able to keep our old URLs and keep Office Zealot rankings in search engines. While not complicated, Sharepoint cares a lot about handlers. In essence, we need to ...

Hello all, today we proudly announce that we have implemented on our future site our Community Server  viewer web part. This Web part is capable of rendering different types of content given by Community server, and can be styled with CSS. After adding the web part into our page, we open the options panel, and we must select what type of ...

It's been an exciting 4 days. We are finally starting to have every item come togeher to form the nice site this is supposed to be.In another post, we'll show you how the tag cloud from Community Server looks. This is how the Articles and News will look now: The joys of CAML and SPQuery Well, Sharepoint sure is fun! Much of its flexibility ...

Today we finally integrated the Silverlight viewer into sharepoint. As I explained in my previous blog, the viewer has 6 different templates that the site administrator can work with. The different controls that will be available on this release will be: ·         ...

Some fellow MVPs have recently released new software that is worth taking a look at: RibbonCustomizer Professional V0.9 (by Patrick Schmid, OneNote MVP) allows you to - yes you CAN do this now - customize the Ribbon in Office 2007.  You are no longer stuck with just customizing the QAT (Quick Access Toolbar) and can add whatever buttons you ...

When opening documents from a Document Library by using the drop-down menu (e.g. “Edit in Microsoft Office Word“), I've received the occasional warning that says: FileName is locked for editing by 'another user'.Do you want to: Open a Read Only copyCreate a local copy and merge your changes laterReceive notification when the ...