I know, I know, as bloggers we've really fallen off the wagon. I could bore you with my excuses but I don't want to test your patience any further! This is however the last official post of the Office Pioneers. From today, the 2007 Microsoft Office...

As I've probably said before, I'm a big fan of OneNote and rely on it to keep all my meeting notes, project ideas and random jottings in one place. As a result I've got a vast array of notes made up of all sorts of types of content: my handwriting, typed...

Under Beta 2 (or at least B2TR), Outlook has apparently developed a severe case of saving paranoia. Almost everything I open - and contacts in particular - seems to think it's been changed. So when I go to close the item in question, I get prompted to...

Forgot to let you know, if you do have any Beta hints, tips or stories about how it is changing the way you do things, please drop an email to atworkuk@microsoft.com to reach Gill and me :-)

Whilst reading Bad Language , I came across this really good reminder of something that I totally take for granted in Beta. Word Count in Word 2007 - now appears constantly at the bottom of your Word window This reminded me of an instance in the office...

This is not really related to the 2007 release. In fact, it's more of a nod to my Vista team mates. I'm sitting in a training course, trying to plan out my answer to an assignment that I have to complete. The assignment is related to my work and I know...

This is a B2TR bug-bear of mine (I can't remember whether or not it was a problem in plain B2). I'm typing away, powering through some work, and then I need to make a change. Say, I think of a word that better expresses what I'm trying to convey. So I...

I think I have mentioned in previous blog posts that I am a compulsive "filer" in the filer versus piler debate. I don't tend to have a busy desktop or an inbox with 2000 messages, my desktop and inbox only really have emails and documents that I am...

Beta software inevitably has bugs. That's part of the "deal" and a part that I'm usually pretty happy with. More often than not there's a workaround or the bug isn't such a big deal and you can cope. But not since the very early days of Beta 1 (long...

Working with Beta 2, all my attention tends to be focused on what's new and how it's changing - and usually improving - the way I work. What's harder to spot is the stuff that's gone away, particularly when it's been seamlessly replaced with a new...

OK, so we've been a bit quiet recently, but my excuse for the last week is that I updated my system and been running Beta 2 Technical Refresh, which I wasn't allowed to talk about until today. And as we've spent the last week in the office getting far...

Another from Chris... One of the things that we're very good at doing at Microsoft is testing our own products - we call it "eating our own dog food" and it leads to a fairly rollercoaster like experience. Darren Strange has a great post about...

Another one from Chris R.... One of the core ideas behind the new user interface is that people like to see what they're gong to get before they actually get it. This makes perfect sense to me - it's much easier to look at a picture and see it' what...

As you can probably tell from the title, this is not my blog posting :-) bringing the Office Pioneer blog to you today from Chris Rothwell : Hello - I'm your supply-blogger while Gill takes a well earned holiday, I'll be posting a few things that that...

... from my email. Now, a process that has become much easier, thanks to the improved "signature" feature in Outlook. I can't really remember how you switched between Outlook signatures manually in previous versions, but I do remember that it was too...

RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’ and it enables users to have easy access to track and monitor information feeds such as news reports, web logs, forecasts and a whole variety of different services. RSS delivers this information is an XML (Extensible...

Earlier this week I ran into a colleague who has been using Beta 2 for quite some time now. "I'm really loving the product," she said. "But there's one thing I can't suss out that's really embarrassing - where has 'options' gone?" This type of conversation...

.... or "Have a look at all the hard work I've done this year"... Just two of the ways that you can use the Photo Album functionality in PowerPoint 2007. Gill and I discovered this nifty little addition to PowerPoint when we were having a look through...

I've been really impressed with PowerPoint 2007 and have blogged here at length about just how much time I've been saving - and how much more professional it makes me look! So when I received an email over the weekend pointing out some serious problems...

Regardless of all the fabulous innovation that you can find in PowerPoint 2007 - easier slide transition and animation , Smart Art Graphics , the more intuitive user interface, the much improved presenter view and the great, professional looking new backgrounds...

I’m aware that we have mentioned screen clippings once very briefly already in this blog but I just wanted to highlight again how easy it is when you have Office OneNote to save any image from anywhere on your monitor into your notes. All you have...

I blogged back in June about how the new To-Do Bar in Outlook had transformed my working life and I'm pleased to say that my good habits are still (well, mostly) in place. One feature that helps a great deal with this is the ability to drag and drop...

Anyone who knows me will know that my constant annoyance about Outlook is the 200MB limit set by IT on my mailbox. Now, I know that this is supposed to help us stay compliant to data storage laws and only keep the documents that we really need.... But...

If you are unfamiliar with a Microsoft product called SharePoint Services then it is unlikely that you will know about the functionality that is available with the ‘Create Document Workspace’ feature included in Office. The Create Document Workspace...

I was so pleased with my earlier post - and with how easy it made creating customised tables - that I was merrily boasting about it to my colleague and fellow blogger, Darren Strange. But then Darren pointed out that this feature isn't exactly new...