Office Zealot

Just while I'm in Redmond to discuss the next version of Office, Office 2010, the second service pack for Office 2007 came available for download. So if you think you found some bugs in Office 2007 SP1 or earlier, install Service Pack 2 to check if your issues have gone away. The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) From my own ...

  I always seem to have trouble getting the right Office Outlook Connector. I recently bought a new machine and for now I am test driving Windows 7 on this machine to see how it serves my needs for my daily home stuff to experience what the average end user is experiencing. The downside is of course that everything I used to use had to be ...

  Early this year I reviewed a new book on VSTO development for beginning and intermediate Office developers and only a week or so the book VSTO 3.0 for Office 2007 Programming was released to print and published. The book is written by Vivek Thangaswamy who besides writing is also awarded Microsoft MVP in the expertise area of SharePoint ...

  I had some issues with one of my Word 2007 installations. It was hanging and Word Options only the Popular options were available. Starting it in safe mode helped but was no solution to the issue. I found a web page with a description covering the issue ...

  Reminder to self: To start Microsoft Word in Safe mode just use the /safe (how could anyone forget about this?) I had to recover from a scenario where I was locked inside Word when opening an existing document. It tried to recover some old invalid stuff but that somehow locked my application. Starting the application with the /safe flag ...

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 ...

Hot news from the press ... REDMOND, Wash. — May 21, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. is offering customers greater choice and more flexibility among document formats, as well as creating additional opportunities for developer and competitors, by expanding the range of document formats supported in its flagship Office productivity suite. The 2007 ...

  At the ODC2008 a couple of funny videos did show on the big screens between the keynote speeches: Video: ODC2008 User Experience Person Video: ODC2008 VBA Macro Guy Video: ODC2008 Swag Guy Video: ODC2008 Architect Guy Video: ODC2008 Developer Guy

Bill Gates, chairman of the Microsoft Corp, opened the Office Developer Conference here in San Jose by first showing his 'last day at the office' video. After the video he talked about Office. I was again surprised about the level of detail in his talk and answering all kind of technical questions in the QA half ...