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Join me and piles of others in the MVP vConference (online). See below for more details. Here is a high level overview of the event: World-class free online conference that features technical content presented by Americas’ region MVPs that is open to the public More technical content (Level 200, 300, 400), less marketing 5 tracks: …

According to this article from Microsoft, Office for the iPad is now available! http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/27/announcing-the-office-you-love-now-on-the-ipad/ All you iPad users out there can finally rejoice. 

The long awaited arrival of Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 is finally here.  What I’m really excited about is PowerMap is finally out of Beta as well, and now part of the Excel / PowerBI suite.  Also, not to be left out, Exchange also had it’s SP1 arrive today. http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2014/02/25/announcing-the-release-of-service-pack-1-for-office-2013-and-sharepoint-2013.aspx

If you want to be able to create a “running comment” in InfoPath (having on field concatenated to another, again and again), it’s actually pretty easy if you know a few tricks (which I’ll describe below).  To do this, you’ll need a few ingredients at your disposal.  For some reason tonight I feel like baking …

You may have come across the same disappointment as I did when trying to get the version of document while output it to Excel – i.e. the version column does not get exported. The post below goes through a technique for allowing you to capture the version history. https://blogs.technet.com/b/fesiro/archive/2012/12/01/how-to-include-retain-the-document-version-with-export-to-excel-spreadsheet.aspx This post has several gotcha’s regarding …

In Word 2013 sometimes you can sit there scratching your head about where things have gone.  Case in point, the document properties or document panel is sometimes a necessity, and if you’ve perhaps closed it earlier in a session, you may be wondering how to get it back.  Below, I’ll show you just how easy …

If you want to get a range of cells (say person names) concatenated together in a single cell, you’ll find that you’re not able to provide the concatenate function with a range.  However, you can tell Excel to expand that cell’s range quite easily.     A B 1 Bob   2 Sally   3 …

As posted by Eric Ligman (Microsoft Sales Excellence Program Manager) https://blogs.msdn.com/b/mssmallbiz/archive/2013/06/18/huge-collection-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-for-you-including-office-office-365-sharepoint-sql-server-system-center-visual-studio-web-development-windows-windows-azure-and-windows-server.aspx?Redirected=true [Below is a copy of Eric’s post] Last summer I put up a post that offered a collection of free Microsoft eBooks across a variety of topics and the response was incredible. Because of the phenomenal response, I followed it up with a second …

There are several tools out there which help you build mind maps, but the nice thing about this one is that it’s integrated right into your Word documents, PowerPoint, etc.  It does cost a nominal $2.99, so it’s not free, but it does come with a free trial, so you ultimately have nothing to lose. …