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Say goodbye to Beta 2; say hello to the 2007 release

Posted Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:03 PM by GillLeFevre
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 system Read More...
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A picture is worth a thousand words - especially in OneNote

Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 9:48 PM by GillLeFevre
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 Read More...
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Save changes? What changes??

Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 5:12 PM by GillLeFevre
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 Read More...
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Reaching the Pioneers

Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 9:03 AM by Charlene
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 :-) Read More...
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Can't see it for looking....

Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 1:50 PM by Charlene
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 Read More...
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More search triumphs

Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:51 PM by GillLeFevre
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 Read More...
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Undoing my work, one step at a time

Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 10:21 AM by GillLeFevre
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 Read More...
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Outlook Search At LAST!!!

Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 5:23 PM by Charlene
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 working Read More...
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The joys of a known issue

Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 12:22 PM by GillLeFevre
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 before Read More...
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NOT missing in action... floating toolbars

Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 12:51 PM by GillLeFevre
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 approach. Read More...
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Beta 2 Technical Refresh has landed

Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 6:38 PM by GillLeFevre
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 Read More...
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Bug bear fixed (aka the beta rollercoster)

Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:06 PM by Charlene
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 the " beta Read More...
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Build your own galleries

Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 4:35 PM by Charlene
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 you Read More...
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Share your calendar with your wife (but only if you want to)

Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:36 PM by Charlene
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 Read More...
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Charlene McKellar signing off...

Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:09 PM by Charlene
... 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 Read More...
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