Don’t get your hopes up, Office 2010 is a done deal. A few weeks ago a curious campaign started, mostly via Twitter, to ask Microsoft is ‘fix‘ Outlook 2010. The complaint is about the way Outlook creates HTML formatted emails, which is the way most people send emails with ‘full’ formatting like fonts, headings, images […]
A first in-depth look at ribbon ‘hand weaving’ in the next Office. Microsoft’s second attempt at the ribbon interface is coming in Office 2010 and this time we’ll not be stuck with Microsoft’s ribbon – you can weave your own. Office 2007 gave us the ribbon interface but no practical way to change it. There […]
Microsoft says they are ‘entering’ Technical Preview, two months after it actually happened. You have to hand it to Microsoft, if they can’t announce something new, they announce something old knowing most people won’t realize any different. We were amazed, but not really surprised, to see Microsoft announce that Office 2010 was ‘entering Technical Preview’ […]
We’ve just heard a talk about ActionBase in Office 2010 and still don’t know what it is. UPDATE: Though it’s not at all clear from the conference video. ActionBase is a non-Microsoft product, not a part of Office 2010 or any upcoming Microsoft product, or indeed the VBA class called ActionBase. The ActionBase Class is […]
A new ebook on using Microsoft Access to make great Word documents. Office Watch and Helen Feddema are delighted to announce the publication of a new Office Watch ebook especially for Microsoft Access users. Access Archon – Working with Word by Helen Feddema, editor of Access Watch. Like other Office Watch ebooks – […]