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Please be sure to mention the version of Office you are using when you send your question.
I answer all e-mails that I receive via this form, as long as they are polite :)
Since disabling comments on this site, I'm actually hearing from more of you with questions ... so, as it seems people prefer to email rather than comment, I'm going to leave comments disabled. As always, you can ask me any Office-related questions you have. If the question is outside of my expertise, I'll try to direct you to where you can get an answer.
Follow-up on yesterday's advanced Word webcast
Hello everyone. Thanks to everybody who joined me for yesterday's advanced Word 2007 webcast! If you didn't get a chance, or if you want to review any part of it again, following is the link to the webcast recording:
Advanced Tips and Tricks for Word 2007 Documents
At the end of that session, I promised some additional links specifically related to learning about Open XML and VBA. If you click the Genius Resources link at left, you'll find a ton of Office 2007 links for all levels - and the last section of those are next-level resources for Office, such as the marvelous Office Developer Center and Open XML Developer.org.
- As also mentioned, if you have my Office 2007 book - Advanced Documents Inside Out - that book contains extensive primers (written for advanced Office users, not for developers) on both Open XML and VBA basics.
Additionally, I have given webcasts on Open XML basics, VBA basics, and the basics of customizing the ribbon ... and here are the links to those recordings (like yesterday's session, these are all advanced (level 300) events:
Breaking Into Your Open XML Format Documents
Using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Every Day Is Easier Than You Think
Customizing the Ribbon Using Open XML
Finally - I mentioned in yesterday's session that you can create an entire document theme from scratch, including theme effects. The tool I mentioned for helping to create theme effects without writing the XML is the Open XML Theme Builder that is freely available on CodePlex, thanks to some folks on the Office 2007 product team. If you are going to check it out and start building complete themes from scratch, the following article gives you some basic background on the components of themes and how theme effects translate from the choices you can make to what you see in the Office programs ... Behind the Scenes with Document Themes.
If I forgot to mention a resource I promised, or if you have questions that didn't get answered, you can (as always) use the Click to Contact link at the bottom of this page for a form that will enable you to send me your question or request by email. When my work schedule is hectic, it can take me a couple of days to reply ... but I reply to all polite e-mail messages that I receive :)
Happy Wednesday everybody!
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