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Posts from the ‘Office’ category

  • When adding emoticons to your PowerPoint slides, sometimes the rendering might not be as expected. For example, PowerPoint renders the emoticon only in a textual, monochrome variant on the slide. So, how can we influence this behavior?
  • Learn how to stack emoticons in PowerPoint to create engaging and visually appealing slide titles. Bring your presentations to life with this quick and easy tip!
  • Last week I received an invitation for a social work meeting about "Pixel art in spreadsheets". I thought: "How hard can it be". Well, it is about 25 lines of C# 9.0 hard! 😁
  • This will be my second post about Bing for business: “the new intelligent search experience for Office 365 and Microsoft 365, which uses AI and the Microsoft Graph to deliver more relevant search results based on your organizational context”. In this post, we will be focusing on “People Search”.
  • At the Ignite conference keynote Microsoft announced Bing for business. Winvision is one of the partners participating in the current preview. With the public announcement of Bing for business, I’m now allowed to show you what the service is offering our company. In the coming days I will be posting about several parts of Bing for business, starting with “branding”.
  • I've been running my own mail server at home for years. But it requires a reliable connection and some maintenance once in a while. And of course it always breaks when I'm on the other side of the world. To free myself of that burden I decided to make the move to Office 365. However I discovered there is no way to set my account as a catch-all account. This is not possible at all! So I made my own scripts to add all email addresses I used in the past as an alias on my mailbox.
  • The other day I attended a meeting where the presenter switched from a PowerPoint slide to demonstrate an application. When he made the switch it was quite obvious the beamer was setup to only display the 4:3 slides to the maximum of the white screen. Since his desktop was in a 16:10 resolution the application was falling of the screen on both sides. While I was preparing a presentation myself I wanted to be sure my presentation would be in the same resolution as my desktop as I would be switching between my slides and Visual Studio.
  • This week I gave a presentation at Winvision and recorded it in Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007. The resulting recording is a webpage with multiple streams: desktop video, presenter video and audio. The problem is that the codec used doesn't work on x64 systems or Windows 7 (Server). Watching the separate streams isn't really an option because there is no audio included in the video streams. But I got lucky as it seems Microsoft has released a new tool called “Recording Converter for Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007” only last month.