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World Exclusive Excel 12 Announcement

1st October 2005, 12:52 pm by Dick Kusleika

Steven Sinofsky is a muckity-muck on the Office team at Microsoft. He said the next 15 minutes are not covered under our non-disclosure agreement. Therefore, I will be disclosing. Sinofsky announced that some of the Office apps, including Excel, will have a “Save As PDF” feature in the next version. Everyone in the room is quite excited with some notable exceptions. A fellow Excel MVP was heard to say “Big %&#$*-ing deal.” Of course he’s referring to the fact that there are numerous PDF printer drivers that provide the same feature for free. I use PDF995 and PrimoPDF is another good one.

Jake mentioned that it may improve the programmability of the feature, which is a good point. Staying out of the PageSetup object is always a good thing.

I’m first, so take that Woody and Mary Jo.

P.S. Ken quit pointing that thing at my groin.

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7 Comments

  1. Graham:

    Congratulations on the scoop, Dick. J-Walk must be green with envy right now!

    1 October 2005, 1:05 pm

  2. Chris_Pratley's OneNote WebLog:

    OneNote 12 to support PDF creation

    Today was a fun day. It was our last day with our MVPs visiting here at Redmond. This was one of the…

    1 October 2005, 7:44 pm

  3. Bastien:

    Great news!

    Did they mention anything about importing PDF files in Excel? This is a question I’ve got many time.

    Kind regards,
    Bastien

    2 October 2005, 3:09 am

  4. Billkamm:

    #3 I think part of the point of a PDF is security in that the author does not always want you to edit their document. If that was a feature there would probably be a feature in the PDF itself to disable to ability to import it.

    5 October 2005, 6:07 am

  5. Boris Merryweather:

    Afraid it’s not a scoop :-(

    David Gainer, the Group Program Manager for Microsoft Excel, has been posting about the new version at http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/default.aspx for a little while longer than here :-)

    Love
    Boris

    6 October 2005, 5:54 am

  6. jkpieterse:

    Well, since David’s post is dated:

    posted Wednesday, October 05, 2005 10:54 PM by David Gainer

    and this one October 01, 2005

    I guess Dick has won the scoop.

    6 October 2005, 8:00 am

  7. J-Walk:

    Yes, Dick got the scoop. In fact, I was present when he typed this message. It was online within 10 minutes of the announcement.

    BTW, the “fellow Excel MVP” quoted by Dick is not me.

    7 October 2005, 2:03 pm

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