Office Palooza

Hello! My name is Stephen Oliver and I'm a programming writer at Microsoft. From time-to-time, I'll post Office developer-oriented tips—specifically around Word.

Today's post is simply to alert you to a great resource for sharpening your Office automation skills—Office Palooza . Office Palooza was a two-week event (April 20 – May 1, 2009) but the content that came out of it is an excellent store of tips, How Tos, and even full-scale solutions for automating Office applications.

Office Palooza targeted "advanced business users" (most people call them "power users"); that is, people who have a great deal more than a beginning knowledge of the Office applications (like Word!) but aren't professional programmers. So even if all you've ever done with Office automation is record a macro in Word, this is just the place for you! If you look through the list of articles, blog posts, "How To" videos and book excerpts, you'll find things like:

…and many other topics.

But don't just take my word for it. Stop by and check out the Office Palooza content for yourself!

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  • I have recently discovered the joys of blogging for more insider hints on software classes I teach. I am glad to have found your page and I look forward to learning extra goodies from the tips you share!

  • I just need to figure out how to back up QAT and building blocks in case of crash, without buying 3rd party software. Can you help? It seems Microsoft did away with the back up wizzards for office 07. I am using OS XP.

  • Simply trying to find out what the compatiility differences are between Word 2010 and Word 2007 as Word 2007 documents open up in compatiility mode when opened in Word 2010.  What will NOT work?

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