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Try this. Open up word, make sure automatic spellchecking is on, and type in the names of some star wars characters: I love it. They're in the dictionary... except, for some reason, for Leia. For the ones it does know, it even capitalizes
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Occasionally I have data that looks like this, sorted on the "Value" column: It's always annoyed me that Excel couldn't read my mind and figure out that I wanted to sort them in "High, Medium, Low" order. Recently I found out that it is possible to do
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If you're like me and do a lot of copying content from other applications into Word and Outlook, you're probably very accustomed to using the paste smarttag to choose whether or not to use the source or destination formatting on paste. If you're tired
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A coworker asked me today if I knew how to count up the total number of folders in his mailbox, in the process of troubleshooting a bug related to having a large number of folders. I had an old script that recursed through a mailbox to count the total
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While reviewing some custom OWA themes we're developing, one of the designers pointed out this odd orange mark halfway through one of the numbers on the calendar view, wondering if it was a bug in the CSS in the custom theme: Actually, it's one of these
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Just about anyone who runs mail servers needs to look at headers from time to time. This is especially true during the development of product such as Exchange, as we track down and fix bugs. I wrote this little macro to make that a little easier. Select
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For certain types of folders, you may find it useful to have the folder list display the total number of items in the folder, not just the unread items (which it does by default). For example, I set this on some folders that contain messages to certain
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While ego surfing I just ran across this handy list of cheat sheets that I wanted to share. Covers topics from HTML to networking to office apps to keyboard shortcuts to SCSI to math. Handy.
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My relationship with Sharepoint is a love/hate story. I've been using it since its original incarnation as the "departmental server" many years ago (trivia: and it was built on the Exchange store ), but not heavily until the last year or two with SPS
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Several times in the last few months I've needed to send the exact same mail content to a list of people, but each mail had to be separately addressed, for the following reasons: I am expecting each recipient to reply and continue the thread with me.
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Yikes, it's been a while since I've posted... and to think for the first 9 months of this blog, I think I posted every single day. I guess I just don't have that much content and I wore it out early... but in reality I think it's more due to my new working
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This has happened to me a couple of times, and I don't know how, but I got into a state where when in Word, when I selected text and pressed the backspace key, it would move the cursor to the front of the word instead of deleting the text. The delete
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By default, when you click on a link to an Office doc (such as on a sharepoint site), IE will open the doc in-frame. For just viewing docs this is usually OK, but it can get annoying as not all features work in this manner. So if you'd rather have IE
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3 months before I moved out here and started working at Microsoft, a friend of mine told me: "KC, you need a pilot... because you have the organizational Zen, but not the tools required to implement it". Little did I know that I would shortly find that
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When you type ":-)" in Word, it automatically corrects it into a smiley ( J )[1], which is the letter J in the Wingdings font. If you look at the HTML, you'll see: <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:maroon'>J</span>
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