Friday, September 28, 2007

Vista and Outlook search

Search in Outlook 2007 not working on Vista

this was a known issue -if you had installed an Office 2003 product on top of Office 2007. the work around was quite easy: simply repair Office 2007 to reset the registry keys:

1.Exit all 2007 Office programs.

2. Click StartStart button, type appwiz.cpl in the Start Search box, and then click appwiz.cpl in the Programs list.
 User Account Control permission If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password, or click Continue.

3. In the Uninstall or change a program list, click Microsoft Office Version 2007, and then click Change.

4. In the Microsoft Office Version 2007 dialog box, click Repair, and then click Continue.

Published Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:29 PM by Charles_Sterling

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

TabletPC pen advances slides in Powerpoint 2007

Writing on slides in PPT 2007, which is enhanced from PPT 2003 as one now can write on the presenter view window, requires that "advance slide" using mouse click is set to off. It seem to be ON by default, which means that slides advance when you try to write. Unselecting the box takes care of this, but I have not found a default setting to "off".