World Exclusive Excel 12 Announcement
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.
Congratulations on the scoop, Dick. J-Walk must be green with envy right now!
OneNote 12 to support PDF creation
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Great news!
Did they mention anything about importing PDF files in Excel? This is a question I’ve got many time.
Kind regards,
Bastien
#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.
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
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Boris
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.
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.