http://blog.momsoftco.com creators of productivity enhancing utilities for Windows and Office Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:56:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After many months in the making and an extensive beta test we are pleased to release our latest addition to our line of Microsoft Office productivity add-ins. As its name implies, PowerMerge is a "mail merge" utility for PowerPoint. It is used to create presentations from a template ... http://blog.momsoftco.com/2009/12/powermerge-new-add-in-for-powerpoint-released/ I have been blogging about PowerMerge lately but, where is it? In a nutshell, the program was finished about a month ago and it seems to work quite nicely (see my previous post to see what it is capable to do). There are just two small issues pending: I ... http://blog.momsoftco.com/2009/11/powermerge-where-can-you-get-it/ This is the continuation of the Case Study showing how to use PowerMerge and QueryCell to automate the creation of personalized presentations using PowerPoint and data contained in Excel. First of all, I create a template for the presentation that will be sent along with the email. This presentation will ... http://blog.momsoftco.com/2009/11/new-books-this-season-a-powermerge-and-querycell-fictional-case-study-part-ii/ Allan and Wilson books is going to be presenting information about their new titles to distributors and book stores all around the country. Read how PowerMerge and QueryCell help them do it quicker, easier and with less mistakes. My name is Jenny Malhouse and I’m the general IT manager ... http://blog.momsoftco.com/2009/11/new-books-this-season-a-powermerge-and-querycell-fictional-case-study/ I have changed the theme for the blog. I hope you like it better. I am also moving the domain from www.monasoftware.com to blog.momsoftco.com. I believe it makes much more sense. http://blog.momsoftco.com/2009/11/new-design-for-the-blog/ On my previous post, New interface for Office 2003 add-ins, I commented that I was excited by the prospect of using the exact same UI in PowerPoint 2007 and previous versions. In fact, I have been able to implement this new concept in my upcoming add-in, PowerMerge in just a ... http://blog.momsoftco.com/2009/09/advanced-task-panes-not-so-easy-as-they-seemed/ As I have mentioned before, I was intending to replicate the look and feel of the ribbon interface in previous versions of Word and PowerPoint. It's official now. I can implement ribbons on Office 2003 After working on this idea, I think I have got a good solution ... http://blog.momsoftco.com/2009/09/new-interface-for-office-2003-add-ins/ Email is not reliable anymore! I get very frustrated when I receive messages from the web site mail form, answer them but it seems my answer gets lost. I can imagine my customers feeling an even greater frustration, because they don't even know that their message reached us. For example, a user ... http://blog.momsoftco.com/2009/09/contact-momsoft-using-the-blog/ I can confirm that the problem reported in my previous posts has been definitely solved. This means that I will be able to use task panes in all my add-ins, maintaining the compatibility with previous versions (specially 2003, which is still the version used mostly by my clients). I ... http://blog.momsoftco.com/2009/09/advanced-task-panes-for-office-2003/ I thought I was done with the customer support series, but a recent blog post on one of the blogs I monitor, Software Marketing News is so related to my own posts that I have to comment on it. On the one hand, I totally agree with them. Generally, ... http://blog.momsoftco.com/2009/09/about-customer-support-part-iv/