Copying a chart from a spreadsheet to a presentation

Body: Needing to copy a chart from a spreadsheet into a presentation is probably a common scenario for many of us. Luckily the Open XML SDK makes this remarkably easy

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Case-Sensitive string comparisons

Today’s guest blogger is Michael Groh, co-author of the popular Access 2007 Bible . The VBA language is not, by default, case-sensitive. A statement such as   CBool("XYZ" = "xyz") will always return True

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A Note on Recent Phishing Attacks Against Outlook Users

As you may have seen, in the past week there have been various reports of a scam / phishing e-mail that targets Outlook users by falsely claiming that it is an official message from Microsoft, asking users to visit a phishing website where they are prompted to enter their e-mail server information, user name, and password. Do not click on the link in this e-mail, or enter any of your personal information on the corresponding site. We wanted to let all of you know that this message is absolutely not from Microsoft , and to take the following precautions: Microsoft (and the Outlook team) will never ask for your personal information via e-mail.

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A Note on Recent Phishing Attacks Against Outlook Users

A Note on Recent Phishing Attacks Against Outlook Users

As you may have seen, in the past week there have been various reports of a scam / phishing e-mail that targets Outlook users by falsely claiming that it is an official message from Microsoft, asking users to visit a phishing website where they are prompted to enter their e-mail server information, user name, and password. Do not click on the link in this e-mail, or enter any of your personal information on the corresponding site. We wanted to let all of you know that this message is absolutely not from Microsoft , and to take the following precautions: Microsoft (and the Outlook team) will never ask for your personal information via e-mail

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A Note on Recent Phishing Attacks Against Outlook Users

A Note on Recent Phishing Attacks Against Outlook Users

As you may have seen, in the past week there have been various reports of a scam / phishing e-mail that targets Outlook users by falsely claiming that it is an official message from Microsoft, asking users to visit a phishing website where they are prompted to enter their e-mail server information, user name, and password. Do not click on the link in this e-mail, or enter any of your personal information on the corresponding site

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Copying a Document to the End User Computer after a ClickOnce Installation (Mary Lee)

Starting in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, you can perform additional tasks after an Office solution is installed known as a post-deployment action. For example, you can copy a customized Office document and create registry keys on the end user computer

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Here is a Way to Get the ID of a Built-in Outlook Command Bar Menu (Norm Estabrook)

Recently, a forum poster asked us how he could add a submenu item to a built-in menu item in Outlook.  Note that these are not controls that appear on the Ribbon of an Outlook item, but rather the menus that drop down from the top of the Outlook Explorer such as the View menu and the Tools menu. So one way to do this (In fact the only way that I know of) is to use the example shown in the following MSDN topic – How to: Add Custom Menus and Menu Items to Outlook . You can’t just use the example as is

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Here is a Way to Get the ID of a Built-in Outlook Command Bar Menu (Norm Estabrook)

Signing and re-signing manifests in ClickOnce (Saurabh Bhatia)

ClickOnce manifest signing can be a little confusing for someone going through the process the very first time.

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Slipstream Office 2007 with SP2

While Microsoft made big promises for Windows Vista slipstreaming (and then failed mightily), it really came through with Office 2007: All you need to do is extract the updates from the service pack and then copy them to the Updates folder in the Office install folder structure. (And then optionally burn it to disc, though I just keep it up on a network share.) And because Office service packs are cumulative, you only need the latest service pack

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Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 Is Out, Boasts Serious Performance Boosts [Updates]

Windows only: Microsoft is pushing out Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, promising significant performance improvements and support for the OpenDocument format, among other things. Photo by Sunfox . In all the update packs in hundreds of bug fixes and improvements for Microsoft’s suite of office applications, which you can see in their entirety in this Excel doc

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