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A lot of organisations have had a chance to play around with Office 2007 for a while now, and are now walking down the road of deployment.  But where to start?  Deployment has changed a little from previous versions of Microsoft Office, so it might be a good idea to brush up on a few things before kicking off that Office 2007 deployment project.

First step is to visit the 2007 Microsoft Office System Plan and Deploy with Confidence site.  This site includes Webcasts (from level 100 through to 400), Virtual Labs, and Podcasts to help you get you complete your deployment successfully.

Secondly, check out some of the articles on deployment from media outlets such as Computerworld.  These start to give you a real world perspective on the types of issues you might face during your deployment.

Thirdly, if you are ready to go now, check out articles from experts in the community, just like Aaron Parker’s post on Deploying Office 2007 with Group Policy Startup Scripts.

Finally, once your deployment is complete, make sure you let everyone in your organisation know about Thenewpaperclip.com – so they can get up to speed quickly with the new features of Office 2007!  Remember… the key to a successful deployment is not the deployment itself, but the training and adoption that takes place afterwards.

’till next time,
TNP

Are you a systems administrator charged with deploying and maintaining an Office 2007 environment? You can now download some key sections for the 2007 Office Resource Kit.

There are four different titles available, Planning and architecture for the 2007 Office release, Deployment for the 2007 Office release, Security for the 2007 Office release, and Technical reference for the 2007 Office Release

You can download each of them from the Microsoft Office System site on Technet

Ask your Office 2007 questions at The New Paperclip Forums – http://forums.thenewpaperclip.com

Do you have questions about Word 2007, Excel 2007 or Outlook 2007, but don’t know who to ask?  Are you stumped by something in Access 2007, OneNote 2007, or Visio 2007?  Do you know what to do with SharePoint Designer 2007, Publisher 2007, Groove 2007 or Communicator 2007?

If you have answered yes to any of those – you need to start asking your Office 2007 questions at The New Paperclip forums – http://forums.thenewpaperclip.com.

Not only are their forums for all the desktop programs that are in Office, there are also forums for the server programs that make up the Microsoft Office System – SharePoint Server (MOSS), Performance Point Server, Project Server and Groove Server. 

I will be on hand when I can to answer your questions – and most importantly members of the community will also be there to help out.

I look forward to answering all your questions in the near future – start posting them today! http://forums.thenewpaperclip.com!

’till next time,

TNP

Thats right… 23 Sleeps, thats 552 hours, or  33120 minutes until Office 2007, and Windows Vista will be available in the shops.  January 30 is not that far away!

You can pre-order your copy of Windows Vista or Office 2007 now on Amazon.com!  They can even gift wrap it for you!

Over the next three weeks I will be in overdrive making sure that you have all the tips, tricks and tutorials you need to hit the ground running as soon as you take off the shrink wrap on your own copy of Office 2007.

Make sure that you subscribe to the feed, and if you have any areas that you would like me to focus on… make sure you leave a comment!

’till next time

TNP

tags: launch, office 2007, windows vista

Exciting news!!!  My sources at Microsoft have all been spruiking that Microsoft Office 2007 has now reached the magic milestone that is RTM.

If you are a MSDN subscriber, you can expect the gold code to be available in the next few days.

If you are a consumer, we still need to wait until early next year to purchase Microsoft Office 2007 from the shops!

So now that Office 2007 is available, are there any areas that you need me to cover?  Over the next week or two I think I will get back to basics and build tutorials that cover the products (Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007 and Outlook 2007 to start with) from the ground up!

If you have any suggestions… please leave a comment and let me know.

TNP

tags: office 2007, rtm, tutorial

There are a few screencasts starting to appear on the Microsoft Office 2007 Developer Center.

For those of you who don’t know what screencasts are, they are basically videos showing you exactly how to do something in an application.

This screencast details exactly how to extend the Office 2007 UI by building a custom ribbon!  Great if you want to customise the ribbon in Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, or Outlook 2007 with some menu options specific to your business, or your business systems.

tags: office 2007, ribbon, screencast

Does the Word 2007 Splash Screen distract you too much when you are waiting for Word to load?  There is a solution.

1. Create a shortcut on your desktop (right click on the desktop, go to new, and select shortcut).
2. Type the full path of Word 2007 on your computer (the default is probably “c:\program files\microsoft office\office 12\winword.exe”
3. After the full path, add a space, and then /q (so it looks like “c:\program files\microsoft office\office 12\winword.exe /q”
4. Click finish.

Now, double click on the shortcut to load Word 2007, minus the splash screen

’till next time

TNP

tags: splash screen, tutorial, word 2007

Ever imagined being able to check in and check out OneNote pages and notebooks from your favourite Document Management System?  My good old friends at Microsoft have put together a technical article which runs through what you need to know to get started.

You can find the article, funnily enough called “Integrating OneNote 2007 with a Document Management System” by Alex Simmons on MSDN

’till next time

TNP (The New Paperclip)

tags: document management, onenote 2007, records management

You thought I was gone… think again… I am back with a new Outlook on life!  I dumped my old style, bought some new fashionable glasses, and use some new fancy metal polish… it is not what you are thinking… I prefer to call myself a metrosexual paperclip!  Take my Word for it.  I Excel at all things Office 2007, especially when I Access my Tablet PC.  The battery on it is a bit flakey though, so I need to plug it into a PowerPoint.  The New Paperclip is my first Project after being shown the door at Microsoft.  For a while there I was on a long and winding Infopath, trying new things (I applied for a job as a shape in Visio, but didn’t get an interview!).  I guess I need to work on my resume to Project a better image.  After that setback I decided to follow my dream to become a world famous Publisher.  That would have been Frontpage news a while ago… but for some reason whenever I look at the cover of the newspaper, all I see is SharePoint Designer.  What a strange world we live in!

I hope you continue to read my prose on Office 2007.  I will be serving up all my favourite tips and techniques for all your favourite Office 2007 applications.  Plus I might even show you some video so you can follow at home or in the office… that is if I get my web cam to work!

Peace out

TNP