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  • How do I - Get Ticks and Crosses in an Excel Table?

    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 the character which the corresponds to the tick...
    Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 01-11-2008
  • 2008 is going to be a busy year! - Events

    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 a Microsoft event on deploying Vista and Office 2007...
    Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 01-11-2008
  • "Orcas" March CTP Released

    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 be for the Virtual PC image, which will save all...
    Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 03-01-2007
  • WSS 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Comparision Features

    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 WSS 3.0, SharePoint Server 2003 and the different...
    Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 02-12-2007
  • Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

    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 Update site, but nothing came through. I did a...
    Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 09-29-2006
  • Save to PDF Features in Office 2007

    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. According to Brain Jones: Open XML Format...
    Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 06-09-2006
  • Testing the blogging features of OneNote 2007 Beta

    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 to your users profile template directory. Once this...
    Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 06-08-2006
  • Test Blog from Word 2007

    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
    Posted to Simon Phillips (Weblog) by Simon Phillips on 06-05-2006
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