Author: Ken Puls

Office PDF/XPS Addin

One of the big things that Office 2007 was supposed to bring was the ability to save to a PDF file, without getting extra software. Somewhere along the line, they decided to make this feature an Add-in, which can be

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700 pages

A couple of days ago, Johan asked how it was possible to write almost 700 pages on the Ribbon... I figured that this was probably as good an opportunity to tell what is in the book (RibbonX - Customizing the

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I am officially an author!

I got confirmation this morning that RibbonX - Customizing the Office 2007 Ribbon was sent to the printers on Wednesday. 🙂 (I blogged that it was coming here.) The publishing of this book, which happens officially on December 17, 2007,

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New tool for Excel users

One of the big tools missing from my coding arsenal has been a place to store code that I've written.  Jon Peltier claims that one of his most important tools for developing is Google, and I can't argue with that. 

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Force User To Enable Macros

Introduction: There are times when you may need to force your users to enable macros to work with your files. Maybe you've programmed some special functions to work with your file, for example. Unfortunately, Office's security settings can get in

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Virtualizing a desktop

I saw that Ross was a little curious about virtualization at the Smurf on Spreadsheets blog, and figured I'd share my reasons, some experiences, and methods for working with this tool. I might even post more on this, as VMWare

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The value of a backup…

To quote my friend John, "The value of a backup is not in the backup.  It's in the restore."  I got to feel this first hand last night. I've been having some performance issues over the last week with my

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