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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 articles aren't available. If you use full text...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Tue, Dec 18 2007
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 will eventually understand how the options are configured...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Fri, Aug 10 2007
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, you will eventually understand how the options are...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Thu, May 31 2007
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 the "Information Bridge Framework" and...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Sat, Apr 14 2007
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 not I have a HTML editing control from writing...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Thu, Feb 15 2007
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 to jump throuhg numerous hoops and it all became...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Sun, Jan 28 2007
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 mentioned I also really like the third side...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Tue, Dec 12 2006
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 3 column view in Outlook that provides task and calendar...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Thu, Dec 7 2006
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 get the problem. I did a google when I got back home...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Wed, Dec 6 2006

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