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Prepare to be "Ribbonized"
Corporates are still fighting the move from Office 2003 to 2007, predominantly due to UI changes AKA "the ribbon bar". In Office 2007 the ribbon was only present in Microsoft's core Office applications, namely Word, Excel, PowerPoint and...
Posted 1 Sep 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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Entourage for Exchange Web Services (EWS) changed my life
I kid you not, my wife works from home and uses a MacBook to connect to an Exchange 2007 Server - girls like "pretty" computers what can I say? As Mac OS does not use Outlook (in 2010 this will all change with the new release of Office for Mac...
Posted 18 Aug 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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First Clound, now Office aims for Nokia and iPhone devices?
Yesterday Microsoft PressPass announced a teleconference between Microsoft Corp. and Nokia executives, with no more information. But that does not stop the blogs speculating and the beliefs suggest that Nokia will be releasing a Symbian based version...
Posted 12 Aug 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
Microsoft Office XML, Did you know?
Something that slipped me by is that the Microsoft Office XML based document standard allows you to extract and examine the internal workings of the file. Did you know that if you rename an Office document, for example .docx to .zip, you can the open...
Posted 15 Jun 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
Connect Coverage
Today's Microsoft Connect event "Save Time. Work Smarter. Reduce Costs", is over and I'm on a flight back to the UK (just when I thought Ryanair have cashed in on all they could I was wrong, they now sell in-flight smokeless cigarettes...
Speaker appearance at Microsoft Connect in Dublin
For those of you in the Dublin area on May 26th, Microsoft Ireland are putting on a Unified Comms, SharePoint and Office event " Save Time. Work Smarter. Reduce Costs". I will be speaking on behalf of First Rate Event Overview Join us on May...
Office 2007 : Toilet Tips :)
When you go for a "comfort break" the last thing you expect is to pickup a very useful, yet neglected feature of Office 2007. That was not the case when I last visited the Microsoft HQ in Dublin, whilst I initially thought the sight of loo technology...
Posted 8 May 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
Office 2007 Service Pack 2 - available now!
Just noticed that Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is now available for download here . For an overview of improvements review article ID: 953195
Posted 28 Apr 2009 by Adam Jacobs | with no comments
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