One of the struggles with the new 2007 Office System User Interface, inclulding the Ribbon UI, is the change in location of menu items. I still struggle with simple things I did in Office 2003, such as Help | About (you have to go to the Windows Menu, click Word Options, Resources, About) and changing the slide backgrounds of a PowerPoint presentation. I found these Interactive Guides linked to on Erika Ehrli's blog. They are very cool ... Interactive: Word 2003 to Word 2007 command reference guide Interactive: Excel 2003 to Excel 2007 command reference guide Interactive: PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 command reference guide Hope these help some of you

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As most people who read this blog know, I spend a fair amount of time writing about games. Games I like to play, game news, game info, game pictures, etc. I love the ability to do something or be someone that you can not do or be. Gaming allows you to experience things that are not possible in the real world. Both positive and negative. As many of you know, I am slowly 'unplugging' myself from the raiding guild lifestyle of World of Warcraft, but I have not stopped playing altogether. I love the game too much. What I could not do any more was the scheduled raiding of 5 or 6 hours a night for multiple nights a week. Too much effort, planning, and coordination mixed with real people's personality and drama just wore me down. It felt more like a job or school than a game. What I find interesting is at the same time I am walking away from my second job, IBM is taking gaming seriously. Not just about hardware (IBM does make the processors for all 3 gaming consoles) or software, but how g

The quote of the day ... "Sweep yourself down to the edge of the platform" heard on the Sox / 35th L platform, said by a secruity guard, after the Cubs fans where chanting "Sweep" in glee after the game today ... grrrrr ... only thing worse than a Playstation 3 is a Cubs fan.

As I slowly unjack myself from the gaming of World of Warcraft ... yes, I need to not plan my life around the raiding schedule of a game ... I find myself looking for games that can play in short moments or while watching TV. Enter the world of the games of TD. Tower Defense, otherwise known as TD, is a gaming style that is as much strategy as shooter. The TD gaming style started with a custom map in Warcraft 3 and Starcraft. The map is designed to send waves of baddies (or creeps) down a fixed path. The waves get progressively harder. If the creeps get to the end, they do damage to your base/castle/etc. When you base hits 0 the game is over. To stop the creeps, you build towers or people. They are in a fixed position and do different things. They can be upgraded over time to be stronger. You get a certain amount of money at the start. For every creep you kill, you get money, and for each successful wave you survive. So what you have is part strategy ... how do I build a mix of tow

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One of the things that I showed at Lotus Developer 2007 in my Advanced Office session was the Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map. As big and overwhelming the 2007 Office Developer's roadmap is, this little gem gives you a great way to explore. It is a live application that you can click around. It contains links and it reads feeds to give you current information. Here is what it looks like: The Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map helps developers visualize the different programs, servers, services, and tools that will help you build solutions. It allows you to drill down to each product and technology and learn about new features, objects, Web services, namespaces, and schemas required to extend Microsoft Office and build custom Office Business Applications (OBAs). This map provides links to MSDN portal pages, technical articles, and key pointers to SDK and reference documentation topics. When you download the map you can see an overview of the Office developer roadma

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All of the demo databases from my 3 sessions at last week's Lotus Developer 2007 have been posted. Please find them at the links below: Unlock the Power of the Desktop with Microsoft Office/Lotus Notes Integration Give your Notes users functionality and capabilities that they depend on including: mail merge, charting, exporting, pdf generation, and reporting all within a familiar interface. This session will provide you with a solid introduction to working with Microsoft Office as well as different uses of the unique Office Integration capabilities available to Domino developers. Learn new techniques to organize Mail Merges for the Personal Name & Address Book, chart any view with a single click. For those that prefer to use supported applications in their environment, we will review products that provide Office Integration to easy reporting and document generation. In addition, leave this session equipped with a functioning Mail Merge Application, a charting of any Notes View ap

So today Apple kicked off WWDC07, otherwise known as the World Wide Developers Conference. As usual, Steve kicked it off with one of his presentations. Yes, he introduced the feature set for 10.5 aka Leopard. He also talked about Web 2.0 on the iPhone. We also go Safari for Windows. But more importantly, Steve was joined by lots of gaming news! EA recommitted to the Mac platform and talked about games coming to the Mac. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Madden 08, and Battlefield. John Carmack was on stage to talk about the new id Software engine technology, called id Tech 5, and give a demo. WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW I can not find any screenshots, but rumor is that Spaces, the virtual screen feature, was shown with World of Warcraft in one of the screens. I wonder if Steve plays a mage :-) My two favorite images: Read more at Engadget here. Interesting times over at Apple. And I can not wait for E3 to hear about the new id game and engine!

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