Category Archives: Office 12

What about feature parity?

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Rick Lobrecht

I was attempting to review a work spreadsheet on my Mac, when this little gem of a message popped up. Oh well…  

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UI paradigms – Microsoft Office – Mac vs. Windows

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

While at my parent’s this weekend, my mother asked me about setting the font to Bold in Word 2008 for Mac.  She claims to have turned on the Formatting toolbar, but wasn’t seeing the ability to Bold her fonts.  Not … Continue reading →

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Entourage – the second class citizen

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

We use Exchange for Lobrecht.com’s email.  i was counting on the fact that Entourage was supposed to work with Exchange.  Well it does, sort of.  It isn’t even as complete as Outlook Web Access. My first problem is with the … Continue reading →

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Shift-F3 change case in Word

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

I searched all over for this a week or so ago (Google and Word’s help.)  Windows Keyboard Shortcut of the Day explains how to correct the case of selected text in Word (and presumable Powerpoint.) “Select some text in Word … Continue reading →

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The required file naCmnLib71.dll cannot by found in your path.

Posted on August 3, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

In the last couple of days, I’ve been getting the error “The required file naCmnLib71.dll cannot be fouund in your path.  Install Microsoft Office Outlook again.”  When I click OK, Outlook 2007 crashes.  A quick Google turned up only one … Continue reading →

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Bizarre Outlook 2007 behavior

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

I’m the kind of person who keeps all their email, even junk.  I archive manually, including deleted items.  Lately, I’ve started to notice that when I move a message from my IMAP inbox into a Deleted Items folder in a … Continue reading →

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Move your OST?

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

My employer is very into the C:/D: partitioning scheme on our laptops (its a side effect of their policy to reimage a machine if it takes IT longer than 30 minutes to fix a problem.)  Yesterday, I went to defrag … Continue reading →

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Comparing the Office Suites

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

I’ve had a heck of a time finding a comparison table of the Office 2007 suites.  There are a lot of pages with text describing the suites, but what I was looking for was a table showing which products were … Continue reading →

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OneNote programming tip

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Rick Lobrecht

Daniel Escapa posted a few code snippets to determine the currently viewed One Note page.  Good stuff.  

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My One and Only OneNote

Posted on September 7, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

This is just brilliant.  Chris Pratley points to Mike Tholfsen’s upcoming smash hit “My One and Only OneNote“.  Ok, so smash hit is probably a bit far fetched, but Mike is definitely talented.  The music is good, and he has … Continue reading →

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