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Open your Outlook Calendar in any view you want...

Now this is something that I think that even the great Allister hasn't mentioned on his blog.. If you want to look at your Microsoft Office Outlook calendar a day, a week, or a week and a half at a time. With your calendar open press ALT+ the number

User groups leaders for user groups

We're hosting a community leaders day today on campus, where we invite all of the people in the UK who run User groups, either online or offline.  They come from all technology areas, but in the IT Pto space, there are a number of gaps. In the UK

Sharepoint 2007 resources

You may have been playing with the Beta of Office 2007, and it may have inspired you to start looking at SharePoint 2007.  I use this quite a bit internally at Microsoft - especially the wiki software and the blogging software. Yes I have an

Windows Live Local addin for Outlook

I really had high hopes for this.  What a fantastic idea.  Windows Live Local for Outlook.  Just the thing to add maps and directions to my meeting requests.  One of the most useful things is that I'll now be able to calculate

Beta 2 of Office 2007 now available

Ok, so I missed this announcement when it came out last week (I was having a break scuba diving, looking at wrecks in the northern Red Sea).  But lots of other bloggers picked this announcement up and passed this arround so I thought I'd

Office Developers conference

There's an Office Developers conference coming up in the UK in June (the venue is close to London Heathrow by the way so you can fly in, attend, and fly out).  With all of the changes to Office 2007, the new file formats and the cool new things

Outlook signature formatting problems

TS (he didn't leave his real name on his email), contacted me through my blog to ask me why his signature files had become corrupt.   My signature file on new messages only works in rich text format, not html.  It used to but one

The Crabby office lady talks about Office 2007

I noticed that the Crabby Office Lady has started to comment on the funky bits of Office 2007.  With Beta 2 of Office just around the corner, and all the webcasts starting to talk about Office, the ball has really started to roll  for the 2007

Word 2007 and blogging

I was having a play with this new Word feature which allows me to publish this post to my blog. All you do is click on the Office logo in the corner, Publish and then blog. Voila! Now that’s impressive. Nino won’t be able to send me mails complaining

Sharepoint webcasts for June

TechNet Webcast: Integrating SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Outlook, and Exchange (Level 300)Wednesday, June 07, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific TimeScott Jamison, Information Worker Architect, Microsoft CorporationMicrosoft Office SharePoint Portal

Office Webcasts for June

TechNet Webcast: Benefits of Deploying the 2007 Version of the Microsoft Office System (Level 100)Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific TimeMark Mueller-Eberstein, Director, Office Deployment, Microsoft CorporationThis webcast explains how

Preview the 2007 Office system

Actually Kevin blogged about this a month ago - but I've only just got around to looking at the video on the Office preview site.  I know, I don't even have 13 minutes free in my day.  I'm herding cats the rest of the time with my team and events,

Portals werbcasts for May

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Top 10 Tips to Save Time in SharePoint (Level 100)Thursday, May 11, 2006 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific TimeAndy Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Pacific Technical Consulting (PTC)When Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services

Office Webcasts for May

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft Corporate IT Plans to Migrate an Internal Decision Support Application from Excel 2003 to Office Excel 2007 (Level 300)Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific TimeSergei Gundorov,  Senior Applications Developer,

Folder share - no hassle...

Allister introduced me to a fabuous little tool the other month that I use all the time here.  It's called FolderShare and it's really really good.  I mean REALLY good.  No synchronising, no messing, all the files you need in one place
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