Category: Office 2007

I had to prepare a table for a client showing the purchase dates of some of their older computers. I copied the dates out of my hardware inventory database and pasted them into Excel. They looked like this: 37210 37279 37432 37553 37553 37553 37729 37729 What that shows me is the number of days [...]

Microsoft has published a new document, dated March 21, 2007, with instructions for installing a database for Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager on a remote machine, such as a Small Business Server. The previous version had a typo in it that was bound to frustrate all who tried to follow it. The new version contains [...]

I found out last night after Googling myself (which I recommend to everyone with a reasonably distinctive name) that I was quoted in an IT trade journal back in January, right after the Vista / Office 2007 launch. Unfortunately, the quote doesn’t really make much sense. The article is about a panel presentation at which [...]

Today I tried to edit a document using Word 2007 that I had created as a protected form in Word 2003. Forms are great if you’re creating document templates that have a lot of standard text and only a few items that change. The obvious example is a standard contract in which you just need [...]

A new week, already a new crazy error message. I got this one while trying to link a contact from my Business Contact Manager contacts to one of my Business Contact Manager accounts: When I click Details, I get the text below. I’ve clicked Continue and Close (X) multiple times with no effect. I have [...]

Microsoft has released add-ins for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 that add a Get Started tab to the Ribbon (the space formerly known as menu). They are free downloads, although Office validation is required.

I’ve been having such problems with Outlook 2007 on my desktop that I decided to uninstall the entire Office 2007 package and try again. While attempting to uninstall Microsoft Office Accounting 2007, I got this friendly note: That’s the kind of message that makes even seasoned computer consultants say “holy crap!” Fortunately, when I clicked [...]

Microsoft came out with instructions for installing Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager on a server last September. It’s a great document, but (a) it was written for the Beta version of Outlook 2007 and hasn’t been updated to show that it also applies to the RTM version, and (b) more importantly, it has a [...]

Warning: This is long. Really long. Like 17,000+ words / 30+ pages long. You might not be able to take it all in one sitting. But I thought it was important to consolidate a lot of information into a single post. Microsoft has a relatively new software bundle that they’re pushing hard. It’s called the [...]

This is slightly old news. The FAQ has been up for a week. There’s not much else on the BCM blog yet, but I hope they keep it up. If you’re interested in BCM, you should also check out the microsoft.public.outlook.bcm newsgroup.