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Tip for finding when an appointment was created
21 April 08 01:52 PM
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Ewan
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Here's a tip for when you suspect someone has magicked up an appointment to coincidentally collide with an Outlook meeting request you sent them... In your own calendar (and other people's), you can see when a meeting was scheduled (ie request was sent
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The lost art of the OOF
29 December 07 10:10 PM
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Ewan
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Some time ago, I posted about how the ".sig" has faded from grandeur. I'd like to add the somewhat terminal dryness of the OOF message to that list, and propose a solution. OOF is a Microsoft term for Out of Office. It should really be OOO,
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Bulk update Outlook Contacts' phone numbers to be E.164 compliant
30 November 07 09:10 AM
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Ewan
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Here's a quick & dirty tool I put together for Outlook to be able to update all the phone numbers of contacts to make them E.164 compliant. It relates back to a post a while back around the challenges of formatting numbers 'correctly', particularly
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Sometimes, you know you didn't pay enough
15 August 07 12:20 PM
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Ewan
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... (and sometimes you probably suspect you paid too much) A common trait in western cultures is the eye for a good deal - you know, getting two-for-the-price-of-one, or thinking that it's worth buying something because it's on sale and you'll save 25%,
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How to handle URLs with spaces in Outlook, Word etc
03 July 07 03:59 PM
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Ewan
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I was talking to a customer earlier today who was envisioning frustrations around using click-to-dial type functionality within OCS, where they'll be copying & pasting phone numbers around. Now if the number is nicely formatted (and E.164 compliant
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Outlook 2007 signatures location
25 June 07 03:51 PM
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Ewan
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Following my post about .sig files , I had cause to dig around looking for where Outlook actually puts the Signature files. I came across a post which Allister wrote a little while ago, but it's such a useful little tip that it's worth repeating... Basically,
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More Office Grooviness
11 May 07 05:19 PM
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Ewan
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Whilst mucking about with Word the other day with my buddy Steve, he was talking about the improvements that Word has introduced (common with the other Office 2007 apps) in the way it handles pictures. Let's take a standard looking Word doc... and drag
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The power of SmartArt
10 May 07 07:43 AM
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Ewan
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Careful you say it, " SmartArt ". It's a new capablity in Office 2007 which is designed to make manipulation of graphical representations more easy - you know, instead of a boring list of words, a presentation or document can have more impact if a diagram
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Thread Compressor for Outlook - do you want it?
23 April 07 11:35 PM
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Ewan
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Here's an appeal - nearly 8 years ago, I wrote* a little COM addin for the-then new Outlook 2000, which "compressed threads". The idea was that it could take an email thread (eg a discussion over a period of time and a number of responses, from any number
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Batch-convert Office files to 2007's Open XML format
30 March 07 08:27 AM
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Ewan
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A customer asked me the other day if Microsoft was ever going to build batch-conversion facilities to take old format files that live on a network fileshare, and convert them to the newer XML-based formats - his reasoning was the sometimes considerable
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ZDNet sings praises of Office Communications Server beta
27 March 07 03:52 PM
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Ewan
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Like probably millions of other people, I get the daily ZDNet Tech Update Today (since long before RSS brought news feeds to the masses...) and was floored a little by David Berlind's column today. I think David's a good commentator - normally sails between
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Calibri: a font like no other...
19 March 07 12:55 PM
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Ewan
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Someone asked me a semi-bizarre question today: the new fonts which are in Office 2007 and Windows Vista, especially Calibri (which, I must say, I think looks great)... Can they be installed on older versions of Windows or Office? I had never really appreciated
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Ewan Dalton::
Some hopefully sensible commentary around various technologies, starting with Exchange Server and other communications technologies but anything to do with software and electronics, basically... I've been at Microsoft for over 10 years so have a rich history of playing with stuff that's in development.