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Taking a Few Days Off

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You may have noticed that I haven't posted for the last week.

I wish I could say that I've been on a fabulous vacation, but in reality, I spent two weeks on the road, talking to people about the Office 2007 UI.

That trip, combined with an extremely busy time trying to help finish up Office and getting it ready to ship, means that I've had less time to write as of late. So, I decided to take a little break after the flurry of posts around the release of Beta 2 Technical Refresh.

I'll be back posting regularly in a few days.

In the meantime, if you're looking for some reading material, check out the new Word team blog. They've posted six articles over the last two weeks; hopefully they'll keep up that pace and write much more about one of Office's most-used programs.

Many of you have also written to me asking where you can get support for Office 2007 Beta 2 TR. The best place to ask a question or get help with a problem is in the Office Discussion Groups on microsoft.com. There's a group for just about every program and area in Office, so give it a try if you're having a problem.

Probably the most common problem I've seen reported is a known issue in B2TR: a dialog box on the launch of Word stating that "Building Blocks.dotx" is corrupt, followed by many of the Word galleries being empty.

Fortunately, it's easy to fix this. Close Word, navigate to the "%appdata%\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks" folder and delete "Building Blocks.dotx." You can find the solution to this and many other common problems on Patrick Schmid's blog.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 27, 2006
    Have a great time, Jensen!

  • Anonymous
    September 27, 2006
    Jensen, is there any reason why in Excel (and probably in all other Office applications too) "View > Arrange All" opens a dialog rather than a popup?

    Yes, I've noticed the "Windows of active workbook" checkbox, but the popup could just stay open if you check or uncheck this item.

  • Anonymous
    September 28, 2006
    Hey Jensen,

    hope you had a great time! When you're back please let the VBA-Team have a look at this:

    I tried one of our company macros on B2TR and compared to Word 2000, it really ran at slow motion!!!
    I traced it down to be the r.Information(wdWithInTable)-Property. Here's an example code for time measuring this:

    Sub ttest()
       Dim t As Single
       Dim r As Range
       Dim i As Integer
       
       Set r = Selection.Range
       t = Timer
       For i = 1 To 100
           If r.Information(wdWithInTable) Then
           End If
       Next
       MsgBox Timer - t
    End Sub

    I let this run with the selection being in the first cell of an empty 5x5 table (that's the only content of the test document)

    Result on Word 2000: 0,015625
    Result on Word 2007 B2TR: 0,765625

    That's about 50 times slower!!! The PCs used for the tests were Pentium 4 with 3 Ghz and 2 GB memory.

  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2006
    Same for "Zoom" in Excel, why is that a dialog rather than a popup? "Custom" would have to open a dialog, but I guess it is rarely used.

  • Anonymous
    October 05, 2006
    I am having a problem with Outlook Beta TR and my posts on the discussion forum go unanswered. I'm not real thrilled about that.

  • Anonymous
    October 07, 2006
    What is beeing done to ensure Office products are accessible with products such as the above assistive technology talking software?

  • Anonymous
    October 16, 2006
    "I'll be back posting regularly in a few days."

  • September 27, 2006 What happened?  Where are you, Jensen?  I miss your insightful posts.

  • Anonymous
    October 16, 2006
    Me too! Everything allright? or getting a bit more of the much deserved free time?

  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2006
    So what happened to Jensen...?

  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2006
    Um, MORE than a few days have passed. Are you even considering of returning to your blog?!

  • Anonymous
    October 23, 2006
    So, what's up Jensen? Hope you are back soon...

  • Anonymous
    October 23, 2006
    Sure do miss you in my regular news feed, Jensen!  I hope things are going well as you wrap up (if not done already) for Gold.   I look forward to when you regain your blogging energy.  ;)

  • Anonymous
    October 23, 2006
    I have a feeling heads are rolling at MS. At least I hope they are. Vista delayed. SP for XP delayed. The sorely needed Visual Studio 2005 SP is going into beta after over a year of waiting (a beta for a SP?... is there going to be an SP for the SP too). IE7 is a complete disaster. All that and I still can't (easily) see two Excel documents across two monitors in Office 2007 because it still uses the deprecated (for 10 years now) MDI.

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    September 01, 2008
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