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PowerPoint 12's Eye Candy

Brendan Busch, the Group Program Manager for the PowerPoint and Office graphics group (my group)...

Date: 12/23/2005

Company Store

ActiveWin has up some pictures of the Microsoft company store. One of the nice benefits of working...

Date: 04/27/2004

Nudging

Need to move a shape or a picture into an exact position but can't get it positioned just right...

Date: 04/22/2004

OneNote SP 1

A preview of OneNote Service Pack 1 is out on the web. For those who haven't heard, OneNote is a...

Date: 04/21/2004

Programming Jokes

The only good programming joke I know: My other car is a cdr. As you may know, car and cdr are from...

Date: 04/20/2004

PowerPoint Viewer Requires Installation?

Mike Niedringhaus and I had a short thread yesterday about whether the PowerPoint Viewer really...

Date: 04/16/2004

Frontpage Isn't Just For Novices Anymore

The last version of Frontpage I used was Frontpage 2.0 back in... 1997? Lisa Wollin, a Microsoft...

Date: 04/15/2004

Presenter View

Another question from Superman: Can I view notes while presenting in PowerPoint? Answer: If you have...

Date: 04/14/2004

Multimedia in PowerPoint

Figuring out how PowerPoint plays movies and sounds can be perplexing to say the least. Andrew May...

Date: 04/13/2004

Where are the Fill Effects?

Why fill your autoshapes with just a boring single color when you can do so much more? In the...

Date: 04/12/2004

Slide Master

Superman asked me yesterday: In PowerPoint, I have a bunch of slides and I want to apply one font to...

Date: 04/09/2004

Is Washington better than California?

Someone I know is considering moving up to the Seattle area and asked me about my Washington...

Date: 04/07/2004

Entourage history

Omar Shahine and Dan Crevier wrote some very interesting articles about the history of Entourage...

Date: 04/06/2004

Positioning objects in Word

If you have objects like shapes or pictures in your Word document, and then move the document text...

Date: 04/05/2004

Gmail and Hotmail

Google's Gmail was announced last week on April Fool's Day. It's free email with a gigabyte of...

Date: 04/04/2004

Dead Laptop Battery

Dennis Cheung's rant about PC laptops reminded me of some battery problems I've been having with my...

Date: 04/03/2004

New PowerPoint Viewer

A big focus of the PowerPoint team for the 2003 release was working on a brand new PowerPoint...

Date: 04/01/2004

Ellipsis

An ellipsis can be useful to have in a diagram: [diagram picture] I've been asked on several...

Date: 03/31/2004

Slides From Outline

PowerPoint is great for creating and presenting a presentation, but you may not feel comfortable...

Date: 03/30/2004

The Apprentice

Two of my coworkers, including our dev manager, got up at 3 AM Saturday morning to audition for The...

Date: 03/30/2004

Need a Job?

My team is hiring Software Design Engineers. In addition to PowerPoint and OfficeArt, my focus in...

Date: 03/29/2004

Audio notes

For almost as long as I can remember, laptops and computers have included microphone jacks. But,...

Date: 03/28/2004

Mac Office HTML

A short follow-up on my Office HTML post. Rick Schaut, a long-time Mac Word developer (with a really...

Date: 03/27/2004

Office HTML

As a web developer, one of my biggest gripes with Office used to be the bloated HTML it would save...

Date: 03/27/2004

Command-line and PowerPoint Show files

PowerPoint supports a handful of command-line parameters. Use these to create special Windows...

Date: 03/26/2004

Linked Excel text boxes

One cool feature in Excel is the ability to link any OfficeArt textbox's value to an Excel cell....

Date: 03/25/2004

Outlook ink signature

One of the major pieces of work the OfficeArt team did for Office 2003 was add Tablet PC ink...

Date: 03/24/2004

Slideshow shortcut keys

PowerPoint has a bunch of shortcut keys you can use while presenting in slideshow mode. A few of my...

Date: 03/23/2004