Office Zealot

  As I announced in my previous blog item Microsoft released the Office 2007 Service Packs (Both for client and server software) December 11 2007. If you go to the Microsoft Download site you can find all installers ...

The deployment machine at Microsoft is working full throttle. We already received the RTM version for Visual Studio 2008, Service Packs for the .NET frameworks and now Microsoft announced to have planned to deploy the Office 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) next week on December 11th 2007. The service packs will be available for both the client as the ...

By now it is blogged at various places and the announcement at TechEd 2007 USA hit the internet big. In my opinion the announcement was too important to skip in my own blog. I've seen the first previews for the Open XML Formats SDK in an Office 14 meeting a couple of months ago and that looked really promising and a real improvement for ...

  The last weeks I have been very busy (besides my professional activities in my daily job) preparing an environment to do a demo on Workflow. The goal of the demo will be to show the improvements to be expected when using VSTO ''Orcas'' compared to how you build your workflows today using Visual Studio 2005. Just to build an ...

  For many people opening the Microsoft products like Office and Vista in their new casing is hard to do, sometimes even breaking the box while trying to open it up. Well, no more, here's a photo instruction on how to open the box without breaking it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucsfpharmacy/sets/72157600095134188/ Finally, you ...

Last two weeks have been real busy. Back in the US -again- for several technical meetings. It all started last week with the MVP Summit 2007, a fun event where all MVPs try too meet and do all this techie geek stuff and are getting informed in several technical sessions. In these sessions every MVP is assigned to a group of peers within their ...

  One day you are -the- expert in your area. You are a Word expert. The other day you all lost all your expert skills. You are no longer the Expert anymore. Work to do! Where did it all go? Office 2007 has been completely changed, looking better, but options are not in the same location anymore. Even worse the complete menu is gone! To ...

What if you work with Office 2003 and you receive a document originated from Word, Excel or Powerpoint 2007? Do you need to upgrade? Is the document a no-no for you? Can it be opened by Office 2003?   No! You'll need the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats !   Get it ...