Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/25
Cool: now for download at the Computer History museum:
- We are today releasing the source code of MS-DOS version 1.1 from 1982, and of version 2.0 from 1983.
- We are today revealing the technical magic by releasing the source code to version 1.1a of Word for Windows.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/16
This is one of the things I tend to forget, as you do it once per machine, and the place to do it is not logical to me.
I mainly use it to quickly record a Macro (boy, I wish Office had a TemporaryMacro feature like Visual Studio had. Alas no more: Macro Recording/Playback has been removed in Visual Studio 2012).
The logical place for me would be to have a context-menu on the ribbon where you can enable the Developer tab.
Anyway, this is how to enable the Developer tab in Word 2007/2010/2013: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/31
One particular weakness of Microsoft is maintaining support for document formats they have come up with the past.
MDI is one of such formats, and I had quite some old scans and document exports (back when TIFF wasn’t common place, and Microsoft was advertising MDI as a “portable” way of sharing digital print similar to PDF that wasn’t commonplace either).
I’ve exported it to PDF now.
So here is to get it working in Office 2007; it probably works the same in Office 2010 and 2012:
- installing Microsoft Document Imaging Writer and its corresponding support for the file format.
- Go to Control Panel, select “Uninstall a program” link under Programs section.”
- High Microsoft Office 2007 (it may show Ultimate, Enterprise, Professional, Small Business, Home and Student, etc).
- Click on “Change” located on the navigation link near the top of the window.
- Select “Add or Remove Features”, then click “Continue”.
- Expand “Office Tools” section.
- Click on the drop down list for “Microsoft Office Document Imaging” and select “Run all from My Computer”.
- Click “Continue”.
- Click “Close” when installation done.
- A new virtual printer “Microsoft Office Document Imaging Writer” is created and allows you to print to MDI format (a TIFF variant). And from now onwards you should be able to open any MDI files by simply double click on them. If you still can’t, try to restart your computer.
–jeroen
via: How to Open MDI (Microsoft Document Imaging) Format with Office 2007 « My Digital Life.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/29
I wasn’t aware that Office Communicator supported keyboard shortcuts for text formatting in the chat window.
Since I normally use RDP/MSTSC connections to a work machine (the laptop often moves around which means that network connections aren’t
“persistent”), which means that every once in a while a key like Shift, Alt, Ctrl, or Windows hangs.
That’s how I found out why sometimes the font in the chat window changed a bit: most often the font became strike through, which corresponds to Ctrl-T.
Three things that Microsoft should improve here:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/25
The ones I use most:
–jeroen
via: 80 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Outlook.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/04
As with Office 2007 and up, quite a few features – including menus and keyboard shortcuts – have been removed or changed.
Microsoft has many posts on them, some of which are here:
The menu part can be remedied with ease: Bring Back Classic Menus and Toolbars to Outlook 2010 and 2013 [WayBack].
Works like a charm, and you can purchase for individual Office programs, or for 3 suite combinations [WayBack].
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/15
Every once in a while, a hidden POWERPNT.EXE consumes 100% of one CPU core (on a single core, that is deadly, on a multi-core system it drains your battery pretty fast).
This was the cause:
One reason is you have preview pane enabled and have selected a PowerPoint File. To preview it an invisible copy of PowerPoint is opened and may not close when you deselect. This doesn’t normally use much cpu though.
–jeroen
via PowerPoint high cpu usage.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/08
After having used the “classic” office since Office 95, there are still a few features that I can access blindly in Office 2003 and before, but have a hard time remembering in Office 2007 and beyond.
Most of those are the ones you rarely use, but the “classic office way” somehow made it in the autonomous nervous system.
It doesn’t help that the corresponding keyboard shortcuts fail to work in the “modern” Office versions any more either.
A few links on some PowerPoint features:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/30
If you install Office 2013 on Windows 8, be sure to transform the default Windows Update mechanism to Microsoft Update: that will get you the Office 2013 updates too.
Here are the one-time steps to accomplish that (which also work for other non-Windows products from Microsoft like Visual Studio, SQL Server, etc):
- Start the “Windows Update” window
- Click the link in “Get updates for other Microsoft Products. Find out more“
- Internet Explorer starts at the Microsoft Update page which detects you only have “Windows Update” configured and asks you if you want to configure “Microsoft Update” as well by agreeing to its Terms of Use.
- Clicking there refreshes the same page into “Choose how Windows can install Updates” page (I took the “current settings” choice)
- Click on the “Install” button
- In the UAC screen, confirm you are an Administrator
- Internet Explorer now refreshes the page to show “Find Windows Update using your Start Screen”
- “Windows Update” now will find updates for other Microsoft products like Office 2013 as well (some 300 megabytes in my case)
–jeroen
via: Office 2013 Plus on Windows 8 x64: how to force update? – Super User.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/16
So I won’t forget to research this:
Somehow this occurs with Excel and the .NET app only having a few dozen megabytes of memory in use, so the cause must be something a lot more simple than “out of memory”.
It is a complex export, but I might just be able to get this going using ADO.NET, and make sure it is not a 60+k rows or 60+k characters issue.
–jeroen
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