Mike Kelly's Blog
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Showing a Checkmark in Excel
I had a problem that was surprisingly not easy to do in Excel, and since it seems like a pretty...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 08/30/2007
Visual Studio 2008 "Orcas" Beta 2 and Silverlight
OK, have passed one hurdle in getting Scott Guthrie's Silverlight samples to work with VS 2008 Beta...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 08/11/2007
Playing with VSTS 2008 Beta 2 and SilverLight 1.1
I've started playing around a bit with Visual Studio Team System Beta 2 release with SilverLight 1.1...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 08/10/2007
Troubleshooting a Local Network
I just spent a few hours on the phone with my friend Mike Loftin diagnosing problems with his...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 07/01/2007
Problem installing "Form Fill" add-in for Windows Live Toolbar
I like the Windows Live Toolbar, but one thing I miss from its predecessor, the Desktop Search...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 04/22/2007
Adobe Reader 8 and Vista Install Issue
Good post on resolving a problem I also had with installing Adobe Reader 8 on Vista. There seem to...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 01/16/2007
Setting up a new computer
Yes, even those of us at Microsoft sometimes struggle to set up our new computers at home. Read on...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 12/27/2006
IE Detectives
Great post on using his tool, Microsoft Fiddler, to track down a web site issue by my friend and...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 10/18/2006
Desktop Search Saved me $20
I recently bought PartitionMagic, a tool for divvying up my hard drive so that I could have multiple...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 10/18/2006
Check out our beta Office Online site!
With the release of Office 2007 Beta 2, we've got an Office Online beta site. It's accessible to...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 05/30/2006
Technorati
I'm setting this blog up to be tracked by my Technorati Profile
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 05/30/2006
Super Tooltips
JensenH has written some about a new entry point for help - Super Tooltips. In general, we're trying...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 12/30/2005
Learning to Love C#
At heart, I'm a programmer. I've been a programmer for 30 years; my first programs were persisted (a...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 12/07/2005
Office Version Numbers
Good posting on Jensen's New UI Blog on how to decode Office version numbers.
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 11/15/2005
Help Viewer and Programmability Help
One of the questions I've heard is about help for the object models Office programs expose. In...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 10/28/2005
More about the Help Viewer
I have some preliminary screen shots of the "Office 12" help viewer. Remember that this is all...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 10/04/2005
Office 12 and Assistance
We've started unveiling some of the features in the new upcoming version of Office, code-named...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 10/04/2005
Offline and Online
The Bet is the ‘Net. That’s a common slogan in my group. What it means is that we’re increasingly...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 02/20/2005
Office Online and "Content Watson"
Hmmm... it's been a while since I've been here, hasn't it.. Guess I've been busy... One of the...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 02/03/2005
MVP Summit Feedback
I'm Mike Kelly, Group Program Manager for Office Assistance - you probably know my team best as the...
Author: Mike J Kelly Date: 04/06/2004