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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:52 PM

Photosynth

I like the idea of virtual roaming.  To be able to go on tour without leaving my house is a bizarre way of passing the time - but gives me the opportunity to travel without having to book too much holiday.  Photosynth builds on this idea. 
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:32 PM

Creating a line in a document in Word

This is a nice tip and one I didn't know...   Create a line across the page of your Microsoft Office Word 2007 or Outlook 2007 document with just a few keystrokes. At the beginning of a new text line, type three consecutive hyphens and press
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:06 AM

Office webcasts for September

    Microsoft Office System Webcast: A First Look at Office Project 2007 (Level 100)Wednesday, September 06, 2006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific TimeKeith Wilson, Senior Consultant, Project Management Practice Inc.http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032305752&Culture=en-US
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:04 AM

Sharepoint webcasts for September

MSDN Webcast: Extending the Web Content Management Features of Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)Tuesday, September 05, 2006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific TimeJim Masson, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporationhttp://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032304828&Culture=en-US
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Monday, August 07, 2006 2:26 PM

Microsoft at work

I've been receiving this newsletter for some time now.  Sometimes it's got some cracking tips that I've never heard of before.  Some a little bizarre, some that I add to my repertoire.  Like these: Powerpoint:Navigate slideshows with ease.    Go
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:48 PM

Download 2007 Office System beta for $1.50

There's been a lot of comment in the press about the fact that we're charging $1.50 if you want to download Office 2007 Beta 2.  We've had more than 3 million downloads of Office and over 1 million downloads of Vista.  Some of this press has
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Monday, July 31, 2006 4:50 PM

Office System videos

If you're keen to get the best out of Office 2007, Sorry, the 2007 Office System(!), here are some videos showing you how the office "back-end" products can help you to become more productive at the "front end".  They're developer focused, and
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:36 PM

Starting all over again - with Vista

It's amazing how much stuff you tend to accumulate over a lifetime.  Memories from when you were a child, mementoes from your youth, things that you've purchased and used extensively, things you've bought and now wonder what the heck you bought them
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Monday, July 17, 2006 5:29 PM

Office Webcasts for August

MSDN Webcast: Introduction to Visual Studio Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Level 200)Tuesday, August 08, 2006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific TimeEric Carter, Development Manager, Microsoft CorporationIn this webcast, we introduce the Community
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Friday, June 30, 2006 6:41 PM

Starting the new year with a clean Outlook

It's the end of our financial year today, we're starting FY07 tomorrow, and I'm tidying out my mailbox.  I do this every year, to keep myself in some sort of structure, although my Inbox gets a bit chaotic for the first couple of weeks
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 6:56 PM

2007 Office system: Take it for a test drive and send us a smile...

Well you can't wait for the beta.  You've heard all about the ribbon and how it changes the way you work.  you've heard about the XML file formats and how your Developers will thank you as they develop applications for Office.  You've registered
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006 5:45 PM

Moving towards truly Unified Communications

***edited with working link*** I had to miss the live streaming show from San Francisco last night as I had to sit  on an online Chat between the IT Evangelists and the UK MVPs.  My participation in the chat kept me too busy to truly multi
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Monday, June 19, 2006 5:27 PM

Office Webcasts for July

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Be One of the First to See Tips and Tricks for the 2007 Office Release (Level 200)Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific TimeStephanie Krieger, Author and Document Production Expert, arouet.netJoin us as noted
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:21 PM

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
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Friday, June 02, 2006 3:08 PM

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
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