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18 December 2007 23:08

Office 2007 iFilters are now available

The ifilters needed to index office 2007 documents are now available for download from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C92A37-719C-4077-B5C6-CAC34F4227CC&displaylang=en At the time of writing some of the related KB...
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10 August 2007 21:08

Office - Excel impressions and tip

I've been using Excel 2007 for quite a while now and am I am starting to love it. Ok so I suffered from the "Where the hell do I find option x" syndrome due to the new ribbon bar, but as I had heard before this is a short term issue, you...
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31 May 2007 20:08

First impressions of Office 2007 - Excel

I've been using Excel 2007 for about a month now and am I am strarting to love it. Ok so I suffered from the "Where the hell do I find option x" syndrome due to the new ribbon bar, but, as I had heard before, this is a short term issue,...
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14 April 2007 13:52

EXCEL 7 hangs when using pivot tables and other external data sources

I have found Excel hanging a lot when doing something with pivot tables or external data sources. This happended today and so I killed Excel on doing so the application error reporting kicked in, I reported the error and was taken to a KB article about...
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15 February 2007 23:35

Word 2007 double spacing - how to have normal spacing

The biggest thing that has bugged me about Office 2007 was that with Word when you type and press entre you end up with a double line space between the paragraphs. I've hunted up and down how to change this behaviour but just couldn't find it. On a seperate...
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28 January 2007 18:18

Excel 2007 Functions

One of the great aspects of the Excel 2007 is the new functions. I have used COUNTIF and SUMIF numerous times and often found I wanted to do multiple criteria, i.e. sum if revenue is for this month and for this store. To achieve this before 2007 you had...
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12 December 2006 09:10

Outlook 2007 Nice touch

One thing that always bugged me was that reminders set on emails didn't appear with the tasks I had set up. Well in Outlook 2007 they have not got a To-Do list which incorporates all the tasks and emails with reminders in one view. As I've previously...
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07 December 2006 08:20

Office 2007 - First thoughts

I've finally taken the plunge and installed Office 2007 and thought I would blog my first thoughts (I still have Office 2003 just in case) As always with a new version there are some things that you think "thats neat". An example is the...
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06 December 2006 22:11

The 2007 Microsoft Office system does not support upgrading from a prerelease version of the 2007 Microsoft Office system

I've just come across this when trying to install Office 2007. The Office 2007 readme says this is a known issue due to having Office Web Components (OWC) installed. I have scoured by system for installs of OWC and removed all of them and still I...
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