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Office and SharePoint Developer Discussion from a Documentation Point of View
OneNote: An In-Depth Look at the OneNoteImporter Managed Assembly (Part 2 of 5)
In part one, we started to take an in-depth at the OneNoteImporter manage class, which provides an...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 02/15/2005
OneNote: An In-Depth Look at the OneNoteImporter Managed Assembly (Part 1 of 5)
A while back I wrote a series of entries dealing with how you can use Donovan Lange's...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 02/14/2005
SharePoint: Office Developer Conference, Day One
Man, my brain is full. For those of you who don't know, yesterday was the first day of the Office...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 02/03/2005
PowerPoint: Launching Other Applications with Command Line Switches
Here's something I meant to mention a while back: did you know that when you set a shape's action...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 01/28/2005
Publisher: 'Using Tags in Publisher' Article Now Live
My latest article on programming Publisher, Using Tags to Store Custom Information in Publisher 2003...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 01/24/2005
PowerPoint: A Codeless One-Slide Timer (Part 2 of 2)
Read part one here. Next, we need to create custom animation that controls the order in which...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 01/23/2005
PowerPoint: A Codeless One-Slide Timer (Part 1 of 2)
Yesterday, a co-worker asked a few of us in PowerPoint user assistance how to create a timer to use...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 01/23/2005
OneNote: XML Reference Schema Download Now Live
For those of you who have been waiting for an actual copy of the OneNote schema, wait no more. MSDN...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 01/13/2005
SharePoint: Brave New World
So I moved into a new assignment last week. After spending the last two years writing about...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 01/11/2005
PowerPoint: Using Tags to Store Custom Data
So, after blogging several times about the Tags functionality in Publisher, I finally took a look in...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 12/07/2004
Publisher: Formatting Text Across Multiple Text Boxes, or in the Overflow Buffer
Here's an interesting quirk in Publisher's object model. It's by design, and it makes sense if you...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 11/22/2004
PowerPoint: No Action Settings for Group Shapes
Here's something I just found out the other day: did you know that you can't assign action settings...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 11/11/2004
Publisher: Creating a Linked Picture from an Embedded Picture (Part 2 of 2)
Read Part 1 here. In the last entry, I showed you how to write a function that creates a separate...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 11/08/2004
Publisher: Creating a Linked Picture from an Embedded Picture (Part 1 of 2)
A lot of the time, entries that I post here end up inspiring me so that I expand them into articles...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 11/08/2004
OneNote SDK Now Live on MSDN
Here's something that was published on MSDN last week that you might have missed: the OneNote...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 11/08/2004
Publisher: Using Tags to Store Custom Properties (Part 3)
First, I discussed the tags collection, which you can use as generic holding bins for whatever data...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 10/31/2004
Publisher: Using Tags to Store Custom Information (Part 2)
In my last entry, I talked about the Tags collection, which you can use as generic holding bins for...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 10/29/2004
Publisher: Using Tags to Store Custom Information (Part 1)
Today I'm going to talk about the Tags collection, a feature in the Publisher object model that...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 10/29/2004
Publisher: Working with Multiple Open Documents
Here's something I didn't notice until I'd been programming with Publisher for awhile: You might...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 10/27/2004
Publisher: Writing Macros to Save Time and Effort
Just a quick, shameless plug: Do you have things that you do repeatedly in Publisher? Do you find...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 10/26/2004
Publisher: Programming Made Easy Article Now Live
The first of my five part series, ‘Programming Microsoft Office Publisher Made Easy’ went live...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 10/06/2004
PowerPoint: Pause a Sound File During Slide Show
Here’s one of my rare post concerning things you can do without using code. I got an email the other...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 09/29/2004
Publisher Programming Made Easy: Types of Visual Basic Statements
I’m writing a series of articles for beginners on how to program the Publisher object model. These...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 09/28/2004
Publisher Programming Made Easy: Why Program with Objects, Anyway?
I’m writing a series of articles for beginners on how to program the Publisher object model. These...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 09/27/2004
OneNote: Positioning Imported Content on Right-To-Left Pages
Here’s something I found in a code comment in the OneNoteImporter managed assembly source...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 08/04/2004
OneNote import Managed Assembly: Customizing How OneNote Launches
Here’s still more functionality packed into the OneNoteImporter assembly: You can also modify...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 08/03/2004
OneNote Import Managed Assembly: The Quick Rundown (2 of 2)
In part one, we discussed how to use the OneNote managed class assembly to import content into...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 07/28/2004
OneNote Import Managed Assembly: The Quick Rundown (1 of 2)
If you haven’t already seen this, get over to Donovan Lange’s blog. Donovan, Omar, and...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 07/27/2004
Visio Update and PIA Issues
I received a question from a user the other day in regards to the samples contained in the Visio...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 07/26/2004
Animating Shapes in PowerPoint 2000 and 97 (Part 4 of 4)
(Previous entries in this series: part one, part two, and part three.) Creating Animation Effects...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 06/22/2004
Animating Shapes in PowerPoint 2000 and 97 (Part 3 of 4)
Today, we talking about build effects. If you’re just joining us, you can find the first two...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 06/21/2004
Animating Shapes in PowerPoint 2000 and 97 (Part 2 of 4)
So yesterday we started talking about how to animate shapes if you’re programming for...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 06/18/2004
Animating Shapes in PowerPoint 2000 and 97 (Part 1)
So, while I was out of town, my first article dealing with PowerPoint animation made its debut:...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 06/17/2004
OneNote 2003 SP1 Preview Documentation Live On MSDN
The title pretty much says it all. The final versions of the OneNote SP1 Preview documentation I...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 06/10/2004
Playing Invisible Sound Clips Revisited
So, it turns out there’s still more to report on how to programmatically control your media...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 06/01/2004
Creating Personalized Thank You Cards with Publisher 2003 (Part 4 of 4)
(Previously: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) Perform the Merge Now you’re ready to actually...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 05/21/2004
Creating Personalized Thank You Cards with Publisher 2003 (Part 3 of 4)
Now that we’ve got the card exterior designed, we’re ready to work on the catalog merge....
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 05/20/2004
Creating Personalized Thank You Cards with Publisher 2003 (Part 2 of 4)
Now that we’ve covered the basics of the project, let’s jump into the details:...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 05/19/2004
OneNote Namespace Change for SP1
Here’s a heads-up for developers that are using the SimpleImport interface available in the...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 05/12/2004
Customizing OneNote 2003 SP1 Using New Command Line Switches
The last aspect of the OneNote SP1 developer story that we should talk about is the half-dozen or so...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 05/04/2004
OneNote Import Example: Generating GUIDs and XML
One thing I didn’t have time to include in my OneNote SP1 Preview article entry was a simple...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 04/27/2004
Importing Content into OneNote 2003 SP1 Preview
The OneNote Service Pack 1 Preview is currently available for download. This Service Pack includes...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 04/22/2004
The OneNote 1.1 SimpleImport XML Schema
The Office 2003: XML Reference Schemas download is now available. The download includes a copy of...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 04/22/2004
Working with multimedia files in PowerPoint
My first two developer articles for PowerPoint are now available on the Office Developer Center: How...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 04/12/2004
Final 'Automating Prepress Tasks' article now live
The final article in my three-part series on how to automate prepress processes in Publisher 2003 is...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 04/12/2004
Assigning Build Levels to Text
So, as I may have mentioned, I’m currently writing a few articles dealing with PowerPoint...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 04/02/2004
How Not to Animate Your Slide
Hey, remember that nifty tip in my last blog entry about how to set up a sound file so that’s...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 03/24/2004
Playing Sound Clips Without Seeing the Icon
So here it is, my first official blog entry dealing with programming PowerPoint presentations....
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 03/05/2004
Print Preview: what you see and what you get
Ever print something and have it be slightly different than what you saw in Print Preview?...
Author: Andrew May -MSFT Date: 02/24/2004