Frequently I find myself looking for one of the tools on a Microsoft Office 2007 application. The problem is I know I’ve seen it, I just can’t remember which “ribbon” in the new Office interface is the one holding the tool I’m looking for or needing.

Sometimes the challenge is that you know you saw it somewhere but you start looking at each ribbon set one-by-one and you forget what you’ve seen where and what else was around when you saw it. I think it’s similar to the same feeling you have when you’re lost and everything starts looking the same, …read more

I ran into a bit of an interesting issue today as we’re getting ready to launch a new application in an office. The application is an Access .ade file that’s hitting a SQL 2005 Express database on the server. The .ade file is located on a shared network drive. We wanted to email a shortcut .lnk file to all the users that they could drag from their email to their desktops and use.
Our first thought was that we could attach the shortcut file into the email using the standard attachment tool of clicking on the paperclip, but that attached the …read more