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Microsoft has released the Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 file formats. You can install this on your computer running Office 2000, XP, and 2003 and create/open/edit/save the new Office 2007 formats (aka EMCA Open XML formats). If you are planning to phase in Office 2007 into your business, I would recommend that [...]

The Daylight Savings Time changes are coming quickly. Hopefully you have already been addressing updates to your compuster systems. If you need assistance one where to start I have posted soome resources below. Microsoft Daylight Savings Time Help and Support Center KB 931667 – How to address the daylight saving time changes in 2007 by [...]

In Outlook 2007 you have the ability to quickly preview office documents (Word, Excel, etc) in the message window. Unfortunately out of the box you could not preview PDF documents, even if you have Adobe Reader installed. When you do try to preview a PDF you get the message “This file cannot be previewed becaue [...]

The problem with Outlook E-mail disappearing after being Read, is due to a filter being applied. I have run into this a few times where a user receives email in the Inbox and has Preview turned on, the email marked as read after a few seconds, and disappears. Often times the user does not know how the filter [...]

Outlook keeps a list of all the names and email addresses of people you have sent mail to in the past. Microsoft calls this the “nickname” and “auto completion cache” of Outlook. There are two ways you can delete these names… Search for the *.N2K file on the workstation and delete it. This is the [...]

Got this graphic from Mart Muller’s SharePoint Weblog. It great for showing what comes in each edition of SharePoint 2007… (click for a larger view)

Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 Released to Manufacturing (RTM) today. You can download it directly from Microsoft Downloads here. There is an upgrade path from the Beta 2 Technical Refresh release. If you have Beta 2 installed without the TR, you need to apply the TR before you can install the release version. The required [...]

I recently ran into a problem when trying to uninstall the Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh from a computer. Not all of the software would uninstall using the Add/Remove Programs applet. After searching the web and the news groups for a way to manually remove (force and uninstall) the Office 2007 beta suite, I [...]

During the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2006 held in Redmond in May 2005, Bill Gates outlined the “Top 5 Thing Bill Gates Loves About SharePoint 2007″ in his key note address. Here they are: SharePoint for Composite Apps Search and the Business Data Catalog Client Integration Excel Services Community (Wikis, Blogs, RSS)

Mary Jo Foley of Microsoft Watch commented on Microsoft’s changes to Office 14 in Office 14 to Get the ‘Role’ Treatment, Too, which is based on this article in InfoWorld. Office 14 is going to have SKU’s for Role Based workers. It looks like Microsoft is moving in the right direction with the ‘role based’ product suites. [...]