Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering - All Comments

re: Click-to-Run: Delivering Office in the 21st Century

Rene Tap — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:24:26 GMT

There are no executables like winword.exe anymore. A customer of us is using an CRM application that calls winword.exe and merges all kind from the CRM application in to a Word document. This won't work anymore when we use the versions Office Home and Student 2010, or Office Home and Business 2010.

re: Click-to-Run: Delivering Office in the 21st Century

Random — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:06:28 GMT

I've never downloaded something soooo slow as this.

re: Business Deployment of the Office Web Apps

Shofiqul — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:27:53 GMT

Hello,

Can you please guide me how to download office web apps RTM

Thanks

re: Office 2010 Application Security

Jamie from GMARK Ltd. in the UK — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:40:40 GMT

We've have been looking for some insight as to how to continue to deliver PowerPoint files which contain VBA code that is inserted by our flag ship product ActivePresentation Designer. Prior to Office 2010, we invested in digital certificates from VeriSign to give users the ability to trust us a publisher, a one time operation that meant no further security alerts were displayed. With the advent of Protected View, this benefit for our company seems to have vanished which means the products we have developed no longer work as we are unable to deliver any of these types of products from our web site without users having to understand this new MSO feature and hence we loose them almost instantly or they create additional support costs for us. Is there a commercial grade solution to this issue that disabled Protected View when a publisher is know to be legitimate?

re: Introduction to Word 2010

mrblue — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:00:34 GMT

Hello,

I think Microsoft is doing a good job by developing and improving the complete office suite. Here is the best article on Word 2010 forums.techarena.in/.../1361484.htm

re: New Ways to Try and Buy Microsoft Office 2010

Jørgen Skydstofte - mail@skydstofte.dk — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:46:01 GMT

There came a failure under the konfiguration of 'click to run' - what a I going to do?

re: Click-to-Run: Delivering Office in the 21st Century

GOOGLE CALENDER SYNC WILL NOT WORK WITH "CLICK TO RUN" OUTLOOK 2010 — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:43:11 GMT

Google Calender Sync will NOT work with Microsoft Outlook 2010 "CLICK-TO-RUN"

I originally downloaded the Office 2010 trial and then purchased a disc copy. I fif not install the disc version but instead just entered the Product Key. Office & Outlook ran fine but I kept getting "Could not connect to Microsoft Outlook error -2146959355" when trying to run Google Calender Sync.

Hours of googling and re-loading and trying all sorts of things..then, I found this gem on a Microsoft Tech Blog site: " In some cases, add-ins might have trouble locating the Click-to-Run Office products on the machine, or they might have issues communicating with Office products when they are running in the virtual environment. We expect these issues to be limited in scope. You will see more from us on how to resolve these both for users, and developers that wish to extend Office. In the Beta timeframe, if you are a developer, or are having issues with an add-in that you believe is compatible with Office 2010, you may want to obtain the Professional version of the Office 2010 Beta."

Full article:

blogs.technet.com/.../click-to-run-delivering-office-in-the-21st-century.aspx

So I uninstalled Microsoft Office Click-To-Run 2010. Let it reboot. Ran CCleaner to pickup the remaining peices. Then install Microsoft Office 2010 from the disc.

Viola! Google Calender Sync now runs perfectly with Outlook 2010 (v32bit) on my Windows 7 (64bit).

One last tip:

If you ahve set for 2-way and you get duplicates when you first sync Google Calender. Don't panic! Easy fix (if a bit tedious):

1. Keep Outlook Calender open and a browser with Google Calender open.

2. IN GOOGLE CALENDER - delete duplicates (including duplicated series). Make sure Google calender looks ok.

3. Right click on the Google Calender Sync icon and "Sync Now"

4. Outlook 2010 will give you a warning that you are deleting events. Say Yes

5. Your Outlook calender is ow free of dupes

re: What the Office team will be talking about at CES

Tony Firth — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:15:10 GMT

You guys suck! Where is bcm 2010 for the small business???? What a cheat! I wont soend my money with you until its available for the small business. I'm going to blog this all over the tech net.

re: What the Office team will be talking about at CES

Tony Firth — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:09:32 GMT

Thew fact that youve disenfranchised ALL small businesses from using BCM is despicable. I for one have invested hundreds of hours in BCM. Its central to my sales and account management effort. But I dont need 5 licences, only one. I hope that this stupid decison bites Microsoft in the ass!!

re: New Ways to Try and Buy Microsoft Office 2010

markh — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:08:10 GMT

This click-to-run should be an "option" shown right up front when people download "any" of the Office 2010 suites. It is creating a lot of headaches for people who are using software that integrates with Office, where as soon as they upgrade to Office 2010, these other applications break when trying to interface with Office products. So us developers, have to tell users that they need to uninstall Office 2010, log into the site where they purchased it, enter their Live ID, and hunt for the Advanced option to download the full MSI version. Come on, MS, don't you realize that a lot of people use Office for the fact that their other software integrates with it? Don't shoot your developers in the foot. Show the download options right up front when users download any of the Office 2010 suites. And include a blurb about possible considerations. (such as: Do you use other software that integrates with Office products?). Thank you.