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Mon, Oct 12 2009 16:35

Office DevCon in Australia

For those of you who don't know, Office DevCon ( http://www.officedevcon.com.au) is the largest and most popular annual community-driven conference in the southern hemisphere. It allows Microsoft Office developers and power users to come together...
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Tue, May 12 2009 20:57

Office 2010 The Movie

Office 2010 The Movie Interesting video that. But notice the link to the Office 2010 blog .
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Tue, May 12 2009 20:25

Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview

The Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview is a limited, invitation only program which will provide you with the opportunity to experience early, pre-release versions of Office 2010 which will include the following applications: Word 2010, Excel 2010...
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Fri, Apr 17 2009 1:14

Access 2007 SP2

Interesting updates (among others) in Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office System due to ship April 28th : - The Microsoft Save As PDF or XPS add-in has been built into Office applications in SP2. Users no longer have to download and install the...
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Tue, Apr 14 2009 19:38

Test your VBA coding skills and win!

MSDN® is sponsoring a coding contest for Office 2007, named OfficePalooza ! This sweepstakes will run two weeks beginning April 20, 2009, and features ten fun Visual Basic of Applications™ (VBA) coding challenges in the form of puzzles and games. Each...
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Tue, Oct 28 2008 15:00

Microsoft to Extend Office to the Browser

Microsoft to Extend Office to the Browser , Office Goes to the Web and PDC: Microsoft to put Office online . Given that the Access 2007 runtime is free I think it would be awesome if you could run an Access app from inside a web browser. Let the user...
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Sat, Sep 13 2008 18:03

Microsoft Office Discount for Students - The Ultimate Steal

Microsoft Office Discount for Students - The Ultimate Steal $64. That website is for Canadians but if you reside elsewhere click on the Country/Region link on the upper right hand side of the page. Now this should really have been done up in the middle...
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Tue, Aug 12 2008 17:39

We really do value them

A very nice Office Offline Web Comic about MVPs. We really do value them I quite enjoy his web comic and am subscribed to them in my open source blog reader RSS Bandit .
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Tue, Aug 12 2008 17:33

OfficeDevCon 2008, Sydney, Australia - 1-2 November, 2008

Fellow Access MVP Graham Seach is organizing the following event after his very successful OfficeDevCon last year. "Office DevCon is an annual community-driven conference that allows Microsoft Office developers and power users to come together in...
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Tue, Jul 8 2008 23:14

Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a month (per user)

Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a month (per user) Interesting that. A fellow Access MVP has been playing around, err testing, Access 2007 and Sharepoint and quite enjoys it. I'm not so happy about the lack of referential integrity...
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Fri, Feb 22 2008 13:25

Bill Gates: Backstage at the Office Developer Conference

Thanks to fellow Access MVP Thomas Möller - Bill Gates: Backstage at the Office Developer Conference. He shares the history of Office as a developer platform, some hints on the future of Access, how he personally uses Office 2007, if he still writes code...
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Sat, Feb 16 2008 19:31

Microsoft Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) File Formats

Now isn't this interesting. The Microsoft Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) File Formats specifications are available for download. Although I suspect the Office 2007 XML based files would be much easier to work with. Will the MDB/ACCDB format ever be...
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Thu, Dec 6 2007 18:51

How is Microsoft Office licensed?

How is Microsoft Office licensed? is an blog posting clarifying some details of Office licensing.
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Sun, Nov 11 2007 16:24

2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide

The 2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide provides prescriptive Group Policy setting and security configuration recommendations to help strengthen the security of computers running the 2007 Microsoft Office release on computers that run Windows Vista or...
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Wed, Sep 19 2007 14:23

Learning Word 2007 if you're visually impaired

A number of techniques in the blog entry Learning Word 2007 if you're visually impaired should also apply to Access, Excel and PowerPoint.
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Tue, Sep 18 2007 13:53

Office SP3 is available for downloading

See Office 2003 sp3 for some details. Or you can download it directly here . Only 117.7 Mb. I'd suggest waiting a week or so just in case there are some surprises.
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Thu, Jun 21 2007 17:33

Another way to test drive Access 2007

You can download a Virtual PC VHD (Virtual Hard Drive) file containg Windows Vista and Office 2007, including Access 2007, from Microsoft Office 2007 Professional VHD . A link to download the now free Microsoft Virtual PC is also on that same page. Note...
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Mon, Jun 4 2007 14:56

Office 2007 format documents in Office 2000, XP and 2003

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats From within Office 2000, XP and Office 2003 you can "Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word...
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