I’ve been waiting (patiently) for 6.1 for a while now, and today I looked on www.my-xda.com (see as they didn’t Email as requested), and there it was the download for my XDA Stella. Read more

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I had a problem at work recently, some appointments being sent to people via meeting requests were appearing in the Outlook diary but not on the handheld device. It took a while but eventually…

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Finally after a very very long wait, Microsoft Office Accounting uk edition is here.

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Just seen this, Microsoft are reportedly adding a feature to media center to allow users to watch TV via the Internet…

Engadget state that during a ‘chat’ with Microsoft they got wind of a new feature being added to Media center that will allow us to watch Internet TV through our Media centers and Xboxs!

The feature will be supported by adverts which should mean the service will be free to!

Engadget say that we should expect to see the update (check Windows update) around 27th September, as long as there is plenty of content available this should be just what is needed to make the Xbox the perfect home entertainment system.

***UPDATE*** Please see the comments below.

I was just asked how to insert the automatic file name and path in to the footer using Word 2007. Admittedly I hadn’t used this feature in Word 2007 yet, but was sure it wouldn’t be difficult.
How wrong I was!

I am still trying to figure out why it is now three times as difficuilt to do this than it was with every other version of word!!!

… Anyway I have found a way of doing this, but if anyone else finds a better way please let me know by leaving a comment!!!

In Word 2007 you have to use ‘building blocks to add file name and path. To do this;

1. Go to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC300002951033.aspx?pid=CT101446261033
2. Download the template on this page (Validation is required)
3. The template will open up and the instructions are on the page

I really can’t see why Microsoft have made this more difficult. If anyone knows please enlighten me!!

Got my TV tuner installed, media center picked it up. All is going well, but…
A should fill in a little history first…
I have my new PC (Dual core 2.8ghz bla bla bla…), installed Vista Ultimate. Everything installed fine, Vista liked all my hardware and started updating itself straight away. I got Media Center working straight away, again all was going well! My Xbox 360 was detected as soon as I turned it on, installing was very simple. I even found a way of getting my DivX movies decoded on the fly when streaming to the XBox. My pictures and music also sharing nicely and I was happy!
This was all a few weeks ago. This week I decided to treat myself to a TV Tuner for my PC. I picked up a WinTV NOVA T 500 card. I choose this mainly becuase it has two Freeview tuners on one card. This allows you to record one channel whist watching another, and pause rewind features.
I brought the card home, installed the hardware and started Vista. The card was recognised and installed within 3 minutes. When I started Media Center it detected the new tuners straight away, and asked me if I wanted to use them? I choose yes, and the ‘wizard’ walked me through scanning for channels and setting up the TV guide.
Everything worked fine, and for a few days we have been watching live and recorded TV through my XBox in the living room. The only problem was the Media Center was displaying “no data available” when you check the listings for ITV1 or 2. I gave it a few days to see if maybe there was a problem with ITV’s data or something. It wasn’t! So this morning after waking up at 8.00am and not being able to get back to sleep! I thought I’d try and sort it. It didn’t take long, mainly becuase I’m a believer in the ’simply’ things first.
If your getting the same problem, here is what worked for me.
1. Go to your Media Center
2. Go to Tasks - Settings
3. Choose TV then Guide
4. Add listings to Channel
5. Go to the channel causing a problem (in my case it was 3 ITV) and select it
6. A list of replacements are shown, simply select the same channel again (in my case it was 3 ITV Meridian)
The above is simply  the ‘take it out and put it back in’  but it works!
If anyone knows a better way or a reason for the problem please leave a comment and let me know!

Today I was training on Microsoft Outlook and was asked if Act! (The CRM Offering from Sage) can synchronise its Calendar with Outlook.

After a quick Google I found a couple of solutions…

1)      The first is a bit of a quick fix. It allows you to manually start a sync from within Act!

a.       Choose Outlook Activities from the ACT! Tools menu.

b.      Choose Update to display the Update dialog

c.       Choose the middle button, Outlook calendar with ACT! activities

d.      Select a Date Range

e.       Click Update to begin updating your Outlook calendar with your ACT! activities

2)      The second option is to purchase some software to do this for you. I did come across some free software available to do this, although after reading some reviews I would advise against using it. Below is what I have found, if anyone does know of any free products that can do the job well please let us know via the comments button.

a.       http://www.actaddons.com/products/2005/doublelook.asp

(Got this one from the Act! Website)

b.      http://www.personalcrm.com/act-outlook-synchronizer.htm

For those of you who have attended one of my Office training courses you will know that I prefer to use the keyboard instead of the mouse. If you’ve attended recently you’ll also know I have been saying I’ll get an office keyboard shortcuts post on here for a while, well here it is…

(By the way, sorry it took a while)

I’ve still got some more to do (Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher), and I’ll get them up soon.