Office 2016 Public Preview Is Now Available
Office 2016 Public Preview – Today Microsoft is expanding the Office 2016 Preview. This means it is available to Office users everywhere in preparation for general availability in the Fall of 2015. (more…)
DevExpress Document Server – Automate Office Without Microsoft Office Automation
DevExpress Document Server – A couple of years ago (long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away) I had to take over a project from a developer that had left the company I worked for. Unfortunately, she left in the middle of an implementation. The application was developed and installed, but there were many change requests and I had to develop these change requests into working solutions.
One of the biggest headaches was the fact that the application did some really funky Office Word manipulation. So much so that when the company upgraded to a newer version of Office, it broke many of the installed application features. More recently though we needed to give a customer the ability to export data to Excel. The only catch was that the customer wasn’t going to install Microsoft Office.
We could obviously not use Microsoft Office automation and DevExpress Document Server is a perfect solution for times like these. (more…)
Edit PDF documents with Office 2013
Being consistent with securing your digital life, be it at work or at play, will pay dividends sooner rather than later. If you don’t take your online security seriously, opportunists will take advantage of that fact and have their way with your data. How many of you create documents in Office and save them as PDF documents? Did you know that you can edit PDF documents in Office 2013? Well as part from being able to edit and create PDF documents in Word 2013, you can now also password protect the PDF documents you create.