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Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, SharePoint (WSS and MOSS 2007) et al released!
30 April 09 09:18 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

A couple of days late, but if you did not already know the Service Pack 2 for the Office 2007 suite (desktop and server applications) has been released. Instead of listing all the individual downloads you can get a list of them all in KB968170 .

Filed under: Office 2007, SharePoint, Microsoft

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : SharePoint Designer available as a free download
17 April 09 02:44 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

This came out around the 1st of April so initially I thought it might be April Fools but no, it’s all kosher. From this month you can all download SharePoint Designer 2007 for free. Here is the announcement on the SharePoint Team Blog. Microsoft SharePoint...

Filed under: Office 2007, SharePoint, Microsoft

How do I - Get Ticks and Crosses in an Excel Table?
11 January 08 10:57 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

There are a few ways to get ticks and crosses in cells in Excel, the old way of doing this was to use a font, like the Wingdings, in the cell format. The only problem with this method, was that it didn't always format correctly, you had to remember...

Filed under: Office 2007, How do I?

2008 is going to be a busy year! - Events
11 January 08 09:13 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

I've just blogged details about the up and coming Belfast Community Launch for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008, as well as some details about the official Microsoft Launch in Belfast later in the year and details about...

Filed under: Events, Community, Visual Studio IDE / Addins, Office 2007, Vista, IT Pro, SQL Server, Developer

"Orcas" March CTP Released
01 March 07 05:30 | Simon Phillips | 1 comment(s)

Well that's my weekend blown... The next version of Visual Studio has been released as a Community Technology Preview (CTP). There are two ways that you can download the CTP, the individual componants or as a Virtual PC image . My personal choice would...

Filed under: Visual Studio IDE / Addins, Office 2007, .Net, ASP.Net, Vista

WSS 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Comparision Features
12 February 07 09:22 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

At work I'm always getting asked this (twice today!!), so I thought that I would post it up here so I didn't loose the link. Microsoft posted last September (and documented by most of the SharePoint Bloggers) a comparison chart of the differences between...

Filed under: Office 2007, SharePoint, Business Intelligence

Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh
29 September 06 09:49 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

I've been waiting for the update to Office 2007 Beta 2 for a while now. I've been experiencing a number of application freezes which the Office diag tools said would be fixed in the upcoming update. So every couple of days I've been checking the Windows...

Filed under: Office 2007

Save to PDF Features in Office 2007
09 June 06 09:10 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

One of the big features announced for Office 2007 is the ability to save to PDF. Those of you that have been keeping up with the news will know that Adobe is not too happy with this and Microsoft is being forced to remove this feature from the final version...

Filed under: Office 2007

Testing the blogging features of OneNote 2007 Beta
08 June 06 03:28 | Simon Phillips | with no comments

Even though the OneNote UI has a context-menu entry called Blog this and a File/Send To/Blog menu entry this feature does not seem to work. Looking at Chris Pratley's One Note Blog you have to copy the Blog template from the office template directory...

Filed under: Office 2007

Test Blog from Word 2007
05 June 06 10:38 | Simon Phillips | 2 comment(s)

There are still a few issues with using Word 2007 to post to a CS Blog e.g. No Categories and I am unsure on how to upload images using this. But I’ll see if this works :S

Filed under: Office 2007