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Monday, May 19, 2008 5:04 AM

Creating a PowerPoint Deck from a Word Outline

Great trick to use when creating a presentation in PowerPoint. If you start out when planning your presentation by just firing up PowerPoint and adding slides, it can be difficult to keep track of the overall flow of the presentation. If only you could
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Monday, April 21, 2008 5:57 PM

Combining Smart Art Diagrams in Word 2007

One of the coolest features of Office 2007 is SmartArt . It makes it incredibly easy to create great looking diagrams to show a process, cycle, hierarchy, or relationship. During some business planning recently, however, I had the need to actually COMBINE
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:24 PM

The Demented Borg Mind

As I mentioned earlier , Microsoft has released the specifications for our binary Office 97-2003 file formats.  Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software has a great take on the announcement (and specs): If you started reading these documents with the hope
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 5:26 PM

Microsoft Office Binary File Format Specifications Released!

Just saw this over on Brian Jones' Blog , and I'm surprised this hasn't made more of a splash on the interwebs... Microsoft has just released the specification documentation for our binary Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file formats. This means that if you
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Friday, February 01, 2008 9:49 PM

February TechNet Magazine is out

And it is all about SharePoint and OCS baby! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/ Sharepoint A Smart Approach to Gathering Data in the Enterprise Information is one of the most important assets in an enterprise. But it can be a challenge to manage
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:14 PM

Pre-order Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac

I see over on TUAW that Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is now available for pre-order from Apple and Amazon , with delivery scheduled on January 15th. It really is a sweet release. You'll want to check out the official Product Site and the Mac Mojo blog
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Saturday, December 29, 2007 6:13 PM

A Weekend with Project Server

Well… I have set a goal to learn Microsoft Project by the end of the year, which gives me through… <checks calendar>… Monday. Crap. I run a decent number of projects simultaneously, and want to be able to publicly report on progress to stakeholders
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Friday, December 14, 2007 8:58 PM

Even more Virtual PC/Server images

2007 Office System Demo and HOL Images This virtual machine demonstration environment contains almost 50 Hands-On-Labs, ~25 demos, and more than 10 software packages. A mere 50GB is needed on your hard drive to install this (large) image! Once you have
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Monday, December 10, 2007 9:06 PM

Two Decks and PowerPoint

Learned a neat trick today that I thought I would share with you all. If you are ever working on a PowerPoint presentation, and want to copy slides from one presentation to the other, you might think it nice to be able to open up one PowerPoint Deck on
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 8:33 PM

Uploading Spreadsheets into SharePoint Lists

Ran into an interesting issue when trying to upload a spreadsheet from Excel 2007 into SharePoint 2007. To do so, you would normally click on Site Actions --> Create --> Import Spreadsheet. In the past, I have found this to be the easiest way to
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:53 PM

Office for Starving Students

Are you a starving student? Would you like a copy of Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate for cheaper than MS Employees can pick it up at the Company Store? I honestly think that Office 2007 is the best product we have released in a long time. I am a student
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 6:41 AM

Hyperlinks in Entourage

I've been playing around with Entourage on my Mac for the last couple of days (in order to access my Email from Exchange while I am out of the office). It turns out that there is a curious feature missing from Entourage... You can't highlight a word and
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:27 PM

Office 2007 - What ever happened to that menu option?

Have you ever wondered where that menu option went in the new Office 2007 applications? Now you can find the answer with the following interactive guides which can be accessed online or downloaded to your computer. Excel 2003 to Excel 2007 Online: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA101491511033.aspx
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