Office Zealot

Office is so much more than the client tools that many of us started with and while we have done our best to keep up with the demands, OZ really needs some new blood and additional muscle to grow its feature set and deploy some much needed updates. That said, I'm pleased to announce that Aaron Sloman and the speakTECH ( http://www.speaktech.com) ...

Storms went through the Minneapolis area Monday night and scored a hit on Office Zealot. The timing couldn't have been better as I was in Redmond with numerous peers and had to scramble to get back to Minnesota to rectify the situation. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to talk to or say goodbye to numerous people that were attending the event ...

I just wanted to give a shout out to former Office Zealot blogger Ty Anderson and the guys from SoftArtisans. They've got a product called OfficeWriter that generates fully-functional Excel spreadsheets and Word documents over the web without the need for Microsoft Office on the server. Ty is a author of Office 2003 Programming: Real World ...

I'd like to welcome Julie Kremer to the Zealot's corner. Never one to back away from the unknown, Julie has already been deep into the nooks and crannies of Office 2007. A long time VSTO developer, she has lots of interesting perspectives and plenty of good “been there, done that” advice. I look forward to hearing about her ...

Are you an office zealot? OfficeZealot.com is growing and seeking outstanding individuals to add to the team. In addition to helping design and build OfficeZealot.com 2.0, you'll have the opportunity to participate in the design and development of leading-edge Office-based (Office 2003 and Office 2007) applications built using a .NET ...

OfficeZealot.com is making some hardware and network upgrades beginning late today and service may be temporarily interrupted at times. Thanks in advance for your patience & have a great weekend!

As most people are aware, Office 12 is currently in technical beta. While 10,000 Microsoft customers are actively testing and evaluating Office 12, none of the beta testers are allowed to talk about it yet (other than what has been publicly disclosed by Microsoft). Thankfully, the various Office product teams are releasing lots of information so ...

I’ve always felt that MS Office, particularly Excel, has been underutilized and/or misunderstood as a business intelligence tool. Consequently, reading about all of the business intelligence features in Office 12 is music to my ears. While there are lots of sites with information on the “back-end” business intelligence tools (ala ...

Charles left some huge shoes to fill when he left the merry ol’ land of OZ for a position with Microsoft - so big it will probably take a few of us to fill ‘em. When I heard that Charles was signing on with MSFT, I immediately approached Chris to see if he had any interest in joining forces (again).  You see, prior to ...