It’s weird how people panic when something is slightly different to how they expect I client called me this morning as she was trying to do a mail merge but it was behaving differently to how her other mail merges work Basically when she opened the Word document with the mail merge in, Excel also
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Date formats incorrect after mail merge using Word 2007
I was asked to look at something by a friend yesterday She was doing a mail merge using Word 2007 with an Excel spreadsheet as the data source One of the fields was a date and was in the British DD/MM/YY format on the spreadsheet but when she did the merge it was in the
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Really Deleting a Sharepoint User (WSS v2)
Richard Tubb gave me a call a couple of days ago as he was having a problem with his user account in SharePoint (read about it here) He mentions I’d had a similar problem It was along the same lines but worthy of a blog post I think I have a client who uses an
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Outlook 2007, public folders and categories
I had an e-mail conversation with a client this week who uses Exchange public folders to share contacts. He initially was planning on creating sub-folders to group the contacts(suppliers, customers, etc) I suggested he used categories as it would mean it was still one place to go for their contacts but they could use a
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Group Policy and Office 2007
Just a quick one… I was looking for some information on Outlook categories for a client when i stumbled across this Group Policy Overview for Office 2007 187 pages of Group policy goodness! Very in-depth It’s from the Office 2007 resource kit Other similar documents are availble here
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Learning Office 2007
I’m always learning when it comes to the office suite. I consider myself a bit of an office power user but i’m always picking up new things it can do. The single phrase i hear time and time again when i’m doing something in office and someone is watching is “I didn’t know you could do that”
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Open Office 2007 on Apple Mac
One of our clients recently made the move to Office 2007. While they have been getting on with it ok i was asked a question the other day i couldn’t immediately answer They have a subcontractor who uses Office 2004 on their Mac and wanted to be able to open documents. I asked what they
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Error when clicking an email link
Got a call from a client today He was making some changes to the contact details on his website and when clicked on one of the email addresses in the page he got the following error message “Could not perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed” Bit odd. He is
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Infopath form template not upgrading after changes?
An Infopath solution wasn’t quite behaving as expected. I wanted to make some changes and try some things out so i copied some of their XML files into my sharepoint document library so i’d be able to test against real data I made the changes to the template but when i tried to edit one of
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Outlook Connector Fixed
After my post last week about problems with the Outlook Connector it appears to have all been fixed! I checked my mail this morning and it had sync’d correctly. I took another look at the Outlook blog and there are lots of reports of the issue now being resolved The comment from the Outlook Program