Category Archives: Office 12

RSS in Outlook

Posted on August 8, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

I love reading RSS in Outlook.  The individual items method works really well for me, as well as all the great tools you have for tagging Outlook items.  I used to use intraVnews, but with the RSS support built-in to … Continue reading →

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Quick and easy address bok searching in Outlook 2007

Posted on June 13, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

I just found a really cool feature in Outlook 2007.  I had highlighted a name, and right-clicked on it to copy it.  There was an item that says Who is.  I decided to click on it instead, and it ran … Continue reading →

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Outlook, Windows, and the bizarre way it picks location

Posted on June 5, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

I’ve been creating a bunch of new Outlook contacts lately, and its been really frustrating.  If I didn’t put a + in front of the country code, Outlook was assuming that the phone numbers were for New Zealand.  I checked … Continue reading →

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One Note 2007′s ability to OCR images

Posted on April 12, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

One of the hottest new features in One Note 122007, is its ability to optically recognize characters in images.  The new print driver for One Note uses this technology to make the text in a printed page searchable.  Well, I … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Releases Office 12 Beta 1 Technical Refresh to testers

Posted on March 15, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

Downloading now.  

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One Note on Oragami

Posted on March 13, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

One of my questions about the Oragami devices has been somewhat (ok, not so satisfactorily) answered by Chris Pratley.  He doesn’t really adress the ink question very well.  We’ll see if he responds to the comment I posted. It seems … Continue reading →

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Office 12 now officially 2007 Microsoft® Office System

Posted on February 16, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

Christ Pratley announces the not so terribly surprising name for Office and One Note 12.  Interestingly enough, One Note will be included in the $149 Home and Student SKU of Office, but Outlook will be excluded.  We have that similar … Continue reading →

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Outlook 12 To Do bar customization

Posted on January 5, 2006 by Rick Lobrecht

One of the really cool things that is included in Outlook 12 is the To Do bar (which Melissa MacBeth talks about here.)  On my machine, it displayed my Tasks with the ones that have no due date, and then … Continue reading →

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