Aaron Rykhus - News and info on Office client apps

News and information about Office client apps.

I'm moving....to a new blog

For all the technical stuff I'll be moving over to a new blog https://blogs.technet.com/bgp. I'll...

Author: Aaron Rykhus Date: 06/16/2010

Silverlight support for PowerPoint

There's no native Silverlight support but we have this custom app on CodePlex: Convert PowerPoint...

Author: Aaron Rykhus Date: 05/14/2010

TechNet Wiki

The TechNet Wiki is new way of sharing information for Microsoft products and technologies. Like...

Author: Aaron Rykhus Date: 05/14/2010

2007 Chart crash update

WE MOVED!!! See this post on our new blog for the latest on this issue. In a previous post an issue...

Author: Aaron Rykhus Date: 08/31/2009

New KB to fix Office Live Add-in pop-up repeats

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/969144 This has a "Fix It" link that automates the manual registry...

Author: Aaron Rykhus Date: 04/26/2009

'Get Started with Office Live' (add-in) window keeps popping up after first startup of Word/Excel/PowerPoint (2007)

Before you read below, this is fixed in version 1.4 of the add-in:...

Author: Aaron Rykhus Date: 01/26/2009

We now have a KB (961223) for the "No Disk" error in Word/PowerPoint

If you're getting this error: "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive D:."...

Author: Aaron Rykhus Date: 12/15/2008

Shared Office Components and Office Tools in Visio

Here's how to get a list of all the shared Office features that Visio 2007 uses, and be able to...

Author: Aaron Rykhus Date: 10/20/2008

Activating Visio

Many people may not realize that since Visio version 2002 the activation (and setup) is the same as...

Author: Aaron Rykhus Date: 10/17/2008

"No Disk" message launching PowerPoint 2003 or 2007

UPDATE - we've got a knowledge base article with more information on this issue, see...

Author: Aaron Rykhus Date: 10/17/2008

Welcome!

I'm a support engineer for Microsoft in the Office realm supporting PowerPoint, Publisher, and...

Author: Aaron Rykhus Date: 10/16/2008