Outlook SP2 fails to upgrade the Outlook Identity

There are a number of posts in the MS forums from users who had significant issues upgrading their Outlook identity for Office 2011. The upgrade process begins, then you get a message telling you that it failed and you need to repair the identity with a previous version of the Database Utility. My take on the warning is that the identity had some sort of corruption that the new Database Utility doesn’t know how to fix. MS posted a Knowledge Base note about the issue…

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Office for Mac 14.2 changes the location of Support folders

Office for Mac SP2 just came out. The new update brings a horde of corrections and improvements. As always, I’m sure people will notice a few new problems here and there, and I just found one such change that prove problematic for some. In the process of updating your installation of Office to the latest and greatest, the updater moves some folder to a new location. Most files and folders previously in ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft and in the ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/ folder are now migrated to ~/Library/Application…

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Office 2011

I know I haven’t been posting much on the blog lately. There are several reasons behind it and being completely unable to find any free time to do so might be the main one unfortunately. I still wanted to mention that Office 2001 for Mac had been released and is also — for the first time — available on MSDN (Premium and Ultimate accounts) and Technet. Once the dust settles, I’ll try to be more diligent at posting here :-\ Corentin

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Messenger A/V beta

Just out on the MacTopia blog: A beta of Messenger with A/V support should be out in 2009. It doesn’t say when in 2009, but at least it’s coming 🙂 A demo should be up and running at MacWorld. Thanks to Nadyne for pointing this out to me, Tout frais (en anglais) sur le blog de MacTopia : une version béta de Messenger avec supprot A/V devrait être disponible en 2009. Ça ne dit pas quand en 2009, maius au moins ça vient 🙂 Une démo…

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Antidote RX v8

(in French since the application is mostly directed at people who at least understand French) Antidote RX vient d’être mis à jour en version 8. J’avais parlé précédemment de cette excellente application permettant de corriger le français en s’intégrant dans de nombreuses applications (dont Office). Au menu, de nombreuses nouvelles locutions, des corrections de bogues divers et une intégration améliorée à de nombreuses applications. Les notes de la mise à jour sont ici.

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Extract media files from PPT, Word, etc, / Extraire des fichiers multimédia de PPT, Word, etc.

Once in a while, I am send a Word or Excel document with a bunch of pictures in it. Sometimes, I need to get these pictures (usually to modify them, or reduce the file size, etc). There is no really easy way to do this in Office. Of course, you can copy and paste the image from Office to whatever image editor application you want to use, but you never know what format the image was in, etc… It’s usually not a lot of fun.…

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Silence…

(en français plus bas) I’ve been rather silent lately. It’s a bit sad since there was a lot of things to talk about. It’s just that I’ve been really overwhelmed and I just could not find the time to sit down and post here everything that was going on… One of the most important news is that VBA is coming back in the next version of Office. That means that everybody who relies on VBA (and I know quite a few) will benefit from a…

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Word 2008 blog (in French/en français)

(Since this is about a site in French, I’ll post the rest of this post in French too) Yves Cornil, un des MVP pour Office:Mac vient de lancer un nouveau blog sur Word 2008 Beauoucp d’information sur Word (qui restent pour beaucoup également valables pour les précédentes versions). Vous trouverez notamment des informations pratique sur la façon dont on peut effectuer un nombre important de mises en page. À visiter donc 🙂

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