Posts Tagged ‘Office’

Office Newswire: Is Office dead? Developer news, tips and tricks – 12.9.2011

Last week I shared news of rumors that Microsoft plans to release an Office version for the iPad. I remain skeptical, but hopeful, they will do it. After all, as Bill Gates often says, Microsoft "is a software company". If they are a software company, then they should work to have their software on every platform and devise possible... Read the rest of this entry →

How to create a custom event when Excel calculation mode changes

You should be aware that no such event exists. Let's create it. In Excel 2007 - 2010, you can change the calculation mode using the buttons shown in the screenshot below... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: Office for the iPad – 12.2.2011

I've been itching to write about this news since Wednesday. It's a rumor… not news but lots of people wrote articles about it so that makes it news. Here are some of the better articles that report the rumor... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire: Office 15 Beta to Debut January 2012 – 11.26.2011

I'm a day late with the Office Newswire for this week. I am without excuse but I will still lay blame on the tryptophan-induced coma I had as a result of all the turkey I ate during Thanksgiving. That and the 2 pieces of pecan pie... Read the rest of this entry →

Office Newswire – 11.18.2011

This post starts with a mind map...a diagram that attempts to document what went through a person's mind as they brainstormed or went through a series of tasks. In this case, the mind map is from one of my favorite blogs which typically covers the sport of baseball... Read the rest of this entry →

Outlook and Word Toolbars mixed: problem and solution

Have you ever run into the issue when an Outlook toolbar created by your add-in shows up in Word? Or maybe, a Word toolbar gets displayed in Outlook? This article describes the issue and provides a workaround; the source code is supplied in VB.NET, C# and Delphi... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Use Restrict method in Outlook to get calendar items

I described how to use the Find and FindNext methods against calendar items in my previous post. Today I would like to take closer look at how to deal with calendar items using the Restrict method... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Retrieve Outlook calendar items using Find and FindNext methods

In my previous articles I described how to use the Find and FindNext methods of the Items class against mail and contact items. Today we will have a closer look at calendar items... Read the rest of this entry →

Outlook NewMail unleashed: writing a working solution (C# example)

In the previous part we looked at using Extended MAPI to handle new mails in Outlook and despite the fact that is does a pretty decent job of it, it still has some serious limitations. In this, the fourth and final part of the series, we will write our own solution to the problem ... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Create a new recurring Outlook Appointment item

In my previous article I described how to create a new Outlook Appointment item. Now I want to show you the way to create a new recurring appointment item in Outlook. Unfortunately the Outlook Object Model doesn't provide any intuitive property or method for such a task... Read the rest of this entry →

Why doesn’t Excel quit?

From my experience, Excel doesn't quit because there's a COM object left unreleased either in your code or in the code of a COM add-in loaded in Excel. That is, to debug such an issue, you need to start with turning all COM add-ins off... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Create a new Outlook Appointment item

There are three ways of creating a new appointment item in Outlook. Today we will examine each of them in depth... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Get a list of Outlook contacts

A while ago I described two ways of getting Outlook Contact items from a folder: by using the Find/FindNext and Restrict methods of the Items class. Today I am going to show you the way of getting a list of all contacts of a certain Outlook user... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Retrieve Outlook Contact items using Restrict method

In one of my previous articles I demonstrated the way of using the Restrict method against mail items. Now I am going to use this method against Contact items in Outlook... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Use Find and FindNext to retrieve Outlook Contact items

Not so long ago I described how to use the Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder. Today I am going to replace a mail item declaration with a contact declaration. There is no difference between mail and contact items in case we use the Find and FindNext methods... Read the rest of this entry →

How To: Send a Contact item in Outlook programmatically

There are three ways of sending a contact in Outlook. Today we will examine them in detail. Please note that the ContactItem class doesn't provide the Send method like the MailItem class does... Read the rest of this entry →

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