Those of you involved in developing electronic forms, should take a look at this article from James Morgan. “The 2007 release streamlines data collection through integration between InfoPath 2007 and the core applications. Electronic forms can be presented as standalone forms in the InfoPath 2007 client or in the browser, imported into Groove 2007 workspaces, [...]

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Andre Da Costa provides a very detailed review of the new Office 2007 package. Based on his experience, it was awarded the following scores: Installation: 95% Ease Of Use: 85% Features: 93% Improvements: 95% Design: 94% Options: 95% Help/Documentation: 90% Price: 85% Overall: 91.5% He highlights that the “ribbon in the core applications is a [...]

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The Australian publication IT Wire has an interesting angle on the new Office release. Dr Steve Hodgkinson, the recently departed Deputy CIO for the Victorian State Government, believes that Office 2007 could well be a disaster that Microsoft has created for itself. “The new version Microsoft Office… is headed for a giant obstacle with major [...]

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Techsmith (the people who make SnagIt) have launched a website focussed on their new screencasting tool. It’s worth a look if you’re interested in web content development and/or technical documentation. Screencast.com is targetted at professionals who want to share multimedia content online. Screencast.com does not resize your video! You retain the original quality of content. [...]

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For those who want to know more about the Microsoft Office Activation Wizard, please take a look at this FAQ on the MS support site. “The 2007 Microsoft Office suites include an Activation Wizard. To fully use a retail version of a 2007 Office suite or program, you must activate it. If you do not [...]

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Todd Bishop discusses some v interesting differences between Office 2007 and previous versions, in particular the reduced mode options.“The reduced functionality mode in the 2007 Office programs differs from Windows Vista by applying only to the initial retail product activation process. Windows Vista goes further by reducing functionality if the software doesn’t pass an additional [...]

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1. Login Screens2. Transaction details.3. Creating reports There are several types of document requires here. I’ve selected three articles (some are for newbies while others are more advance) that are worth printing out and reading carefully.Login Screen – instructions for the user to login and outWeb Writing: Create Writing Flow With Four Uncommon Connectors from [...]

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There are many things to consider here, especially if you are new to tech writing.So, what I’ve done is highlight some of articles on the Klariti tech writing site that might help you. If you search for ‘user guides’ you’ll also find other tutorials that may be of use.How to write a User Guidehttp://www.klariti.com/technical-writing/User-Guides-Tutorial.shtml How [...]

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John Durant on MSDN announces the WordProcessingML Transform Inference Tool.Why should you get excited about this?“Say you have a bunch of XML files that get pumped out of system every day. You often have to do a lot of busy work to take the data, copy/paste it into a Word document and then do some [...]

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Lars Munch writes “On Monday the 17th November the xml schemas for the Word Document ML along with documentation, was uploaded to the Infostructurebase (ISB). With the Word Document ML specification anybody can generate, view and process Microsoft word documents on any format.” Legal terms are here: http://rep.oio.dk/Microsoft.com/officeschemas/LegalNotice.htm It its own words “Permission to copy, [...]

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You may get this error message “Microsoft Word has encountered a problem and needs to close” when you start Word 2002 or Word 2003.This may occur if the global template (Normal.dot) is a Word document named Normal.dot.To fix this;1. Click Yes on the message that follows the error message: “Word has detected a problem with [...]

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MS have published an answer to this error message on their Knowledgebase. First, select another Word template before you process the document, and then delete the original template that causes the error. 1. In Small Business Accounting, open the document that you want to process.2. On the File menu, click Print.3. Select the Word template [...]

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Developers might be interested in DENG, an open source Modular XML Browser, capable of rendering subsets of XHTML, SVG, XForms, XFrames, arbitrary XML (e.g. RSS) and any other custom XML application, styled by CSS 3. According to the site, “the footprint of the DENG Modular XML Browser is 76 KB, allowing zero-install, cross browser and [...]

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