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Gray Knowlton's blog on Microsoft Office

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106 from 14 Dec 2007 to 22 May 2014
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2014 1

  1. Thank you and farewell.

2013 5

  1. A comment about September and October 2013 Patch Tuesday
  2. Today is Patch Tuesday
  3. How Office Updates - The Basics
  4. Office Updates: Weighing Currency vs. Cadence
  5. 3 years later

2010 17

  1. RSA: What Motivates Us
  2. A Company of One
  3. Office Round-up
  4. How to present to an executive
  5. Updating the Custom XML Scanning Tool
  6. Welcome Back
  7. A New Challenge
  8. Open XML SDK 2.0 Released
  9. Office Developer Atlas
  10. Office 2010 Application Compatibility Tools Bug Hunt
  11. Office 2010 Application Compatibility Tools Bug Hunt Sweepstakes Official Rules
  12. Open XML SDK Code behind the Custom XML Markup Detection Tool
  13. Scanning Tool to Detect Custom XML Markup in .DOCX and .DOCM files
  14. Off Topic: Check out the Office Ribbon Hero
  15. Associating Data with Content Controls
  16. Regarding Custom XML Patch distribution and availability
  17. Using Content Controls vs. Custom XML Elements

2009 39

  1. What is "Custom XML?" ... and the impact of the i4i judgment on Word
  2. 2010 New Year's Resolutions & Beer Selection, Simplified + 2009 blog in review
  3. Office 2010 Questions Answered for new Office developers
  4. Office 2010 System Requirements
  5. Office 2010 Application Compatibility Tools Beta Now Available
  6. 5 Years at Microsoft
  7. Outlook 2010 for Developers: New Shutdown Changes for Outlook 2010
  8. Office 2010 for Developers: Transcript from my training session
  9. I get your strategy, but where are you hosting your data?
  10. Office 2010 for Developers: Outlook 2010 MAPI reference and a hint for the PowerPoint Developer
  11. Office 2010 Application Compatibility: Deep dive on the Code Compatibility Inspector
  12. Office 2010 & SharePoint 2010 Developer Workshops
  13. PowerPoint VBA and the Purpose of Thursday
  14. Office 2010 Application Compatibility: Deep dive on Environment Assessment Tool
  15. Office and SharePoint 2010 Highlights from SharePoint Conference
  16. Announcing the Office 2010 Application Compatibility Program
  17. Open XML and the SharePoint Conference
  18. Resurfacing
  19. A big day for Office 2010
  20. Compatibility Pack for Open XML passes 100 million downloads
  21. Data Portability for Office 2007 – the first 3 examples to read
  22. Office 2010 for Developers: Office Developer Conference moving to SharePoint Conference 2009
  23. Blog and Comment Policy
  24. Leaked Office 2010 Build and Staying Safe
  25. Rethinking ODF leadership
  26. Office 2007 SP2 and PDF version support - @Pot&Kettle
  27. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 Kiosk, with more staples
  28. Service Pack Uninstall tool example
  29. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 Kiosk
  30. VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) in Office 2007
  31. TextGlow Silverlight Open XML Viewer Source Code available
  32. DAISY Translator for Word gets an update: Save as MP3 from Word?
  33. The value of a checkbox as defined by a standard
  34. Microsoft Employees Give $87.7M to Charity in 2008
  35. Open XML Tools Index
  36. Q & A For Gray
  37. “Interoperability” = Solutions?
  38. Advertising for two blogs that I read
  39. Bits on Boxes

2008 41

  1. Breaking down the 4th wall; the typical end of year fun
  2. Gartner: Open XML “would have been a better choice than ODF as the single standard”
  3. Interesting adoption data for Open XML and ODF
  4. Whoopsie
  5. Document Encryption in Office 2007 with Open XML
  6. Redmond ODF workshop feels pretty good
  7. Regarding the future of Open XML
  8. PowerPoint Producer 2007 Beta
  9. Microsoft adds “Save as ODF” to Office 2007 Service Pack 2
  10. DAISY Translator Released!
  11. Rested, relaxed
  12. Unification of ODF and Open XML: An army without a general
  13. Bill Gates at the U.S. House of Representatives
  14. Critical questions for national bodies considering OOXML/DIS 29500
  15. Open Office to support Open XML?
  16. Ooh’s and Aaah’s for March 19th
  17. Shamelessly out of context
  18. St. Patrick’s Day Letter from Chris Capossela
  19. Open XML Scorecard for St. Patrick's Day 2008
  20. “Someone is wrong on the internet”
  21. A disappointing surprise from the SFLC
  22. Within Minutes
  23. Silverlight viewer for Open XML
  24. What a difference a week makes
  25. Friday Afternoon Fun
  26. Microsoft on Interoperability: “Significant, Strategic Change”
  27. “Harmonization” vs. “Unification”
  28. Open XML in the world
  29. Interop Vendor Alliance Tests Open XML Interoperability
  30. ODF Alliance: The widening gap between fact and fiction
  31. “I am rubber, you are glue…”
  32. Balancing the opinions on ODF TC Members
  33. On “motivation” and commitment to open file formats
  34. Gearing up for TechEd U.S. 2008
  35. Useful Open XML Information for January 30th
  36. Does Office 2007 work on Windows XP? Yes, it does.
  37. “Notes” from the Open XML Battlefront: IBM vs. IBM, part 2
  38. Virtualization Progress
  39. Speaking of odd contradictions…
  40. NOOOXML says: “Down with XML”
  41. More on the Open XML to DAISY Translator

2007 3

  1. Compatibility pack for Open XML: 20 Million downloads and counting
  2. File size reduction for Open XML
  3. Welcome to my blog