Saturday, April 14, 2007 - Posts

EXCEL 7 hangs when using pivot tables and other external data sources

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I have found Excel hanging a lot when doing something with pivot tables or external data sources. This happended today and so I killed Excel on doing so the application error reporting kicked in, I reported the error and was taken to a KB article about the "Information Bridge Framework" and that it doesn't work with .Net 2.0 and Office 2007.

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posted Saturday, April 14, 2007 1:52 PM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

Whats the quickest way to get a hotfix?

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I just blogged about an incompatibility between Office and the Infromation Bridge Framework which causes Excel to hang when using pivot tables. EXCEL 7 hangs when using pivot tables and other external data sources

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posted Saturday, April 14, 2007 1:51 PM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

live maps work with UK postcodes

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One thing that has bugged the hell out of mt with maps.live.com is that when you put a postcode in you didn't get an exact point on the map. When searching for something in London or a big town, it was absolutely useless.

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posted Saturday, April 14, 2007 1:42 PM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

Whats happening with forums and newsgroups

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There is a strong feeling about NNTP, personally that argument is mis directed as one for NNTP, when it is actually a requirement for a rich offline application. This is what is going to be possible with the new incarnation of the microsoft communities moving forward. Those that use the forums often prefer them because of the personal aspect, questions can be marked as answers, it works over http and the information displayable is greater than NNTP.

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posted Saturday, April 14, 2007 11:42 AM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments