October 2012 archive

Office Reaches RTM

On October 11th Microsoft announced that the latest version of Office has been released to manufacturing. From the Microsoft Office blog: “by Kirk Koenigsbauer on October 11 Today we reached an important milestone in the development of the new Office. Moments ago, the Office engineering team signed off on the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build. …

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Tricks for creating dropdown lists that let you select multiple items

Here is a post from the official Excel Blog over at Microsoft on creating dropdown lists that let you select multiple items in Microsoft Excel: “Our guest blogger Debra Dalgleish is a consultant specializing in Microsoft Office programming and development. She offers her Excel wisdom every week on the Contextures blog and has received the …

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OEMs Introduce Innovative New PC Designs for Windows 8

Microsoft posted a blog entry highlighting some of the new PC designs that OEM’s (Dell, HP, Samsung, ASUS, Sony, etc) are showing off as part of their initial round of  Windows 8 computers. Microsoft works closely with these OEM partners to ensure a great user experience and that the designed meet strict standards in order …

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