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DAISY, the Digital Accessible Information SYstem, is the world's most widely used assistive technology for reading. The DAISY Standard (officially ANSI/NISO z39.86 Specifications for the Digital Talking Book) has improved the reading experience for people
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Busted!

Full story at the SMH ... If I were responsible for this, I'd not be happy for a number of reasons: If they were using Word 2007, they could have inspected the document and stripped out personally identifiable metadata and the like, before saving as a
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Cool Download: Open XML Theme Builder

  Codeplex has lots of interesting tools. Here is one I stumbled on today - This is a much easier way of making Office 2007 themes and styles than manually doing it through the Word or PowerPoint interface: The Open XML Theme Builder is a tool that
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Frequently Answered Questions

Being a Technology Specialist at Microsoft generally means that you know some stuff about some of our products. And sometimes, that great power comes a great responsibility... answering technical questions. Most of the time, the trick is to be able to
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5 second Tutorial: Customise the Word Ribbon with Visual Studio 2008

1. Open Visual Studio 2008 and create a Word 2007 addin 2. Add a New Item of type Ribbon (Visual Designer) to the project 3. Now you can drag and drop buttons and controls on to the Office Ribbon to your hearts content. This includes all of those funky
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Top 5 Apps every Office developer should know

It seems like everybody is doing "Top x Predictions for 2008", "Top x Resolutions for 2007" and the like. So here is one of my own: 1. Visual Studio 2008 - Visual Studio Tools for Office included? Templates for Office 2007, Office

Making Big Word Docs out of lots of Little Word Docs

Generate a document from a database of snippets crack open the docx and chunk up the content.xml file just use the INCLUDETEXT field. Please use option 3 - ( or option 2 if you're hardcore ). There is a great article from some intrepid MVPs here: How
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Getting started with Microsoft Word(s)

I've been with Microsoft for about five weeks now (but only about 3 weeks of face time at the Sydney Office) - as a recent resident of Sydney, my whole life pretty much revolves around work at the moment - I haven't yet settled in. I had dinner with friends
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SharePoint and Office versions... huh?

I hear a lot of questions about which applications are included in which versions of Office. So, rather than rehash what is elsewhere, I'll point you to the Microsoft Office 2007 Suites page on Office Online. Each suite has a different set of products
 
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