Excel 2007: Locating Data Entry Form Button

If you used the data entry form in Excel 2003, you might recall that it was easily available from the Data menu.

 

In Excel 2007 you won’t find a button anywhere within the ribbon. You will have to add it manually for example to the Quick Access Toolbar.

To get the Form button visible, follow these steps:

1. Click on the down arrow on the Quick Access Toolbar
2. Select More Commands

3. Select All Commands

4. Locate and select Form from the command list on the left

5. Click Add
6. Click OK
7. Now you can find the Form button at the end of the QAT

Excel Error: Error 800a0011 When Trying to Add a Control to UserForm

When adding a form control to a UserForm you might get the following error message:

Excel could not complete the operation due to error 800a0011

When this occurs, your VBA code is most likely currently in break mode.

Click OK in the error dialog and reset your VBA Editor (Run->Reset). Now you can add the form control to your UserForm.

Works at least for Excel 2007.

SP2010: Features and Their GUIDs

A list of SharePoint 2010 features with associated GUIDs is also available. Thanks Norwegian Information Worker Team!

MOSS 2007: List of Features With GUIDs

I needed to locate a MOSS 2007 feature based on its GUID, and found Robert Bogue's (MVP) great list for the purpose. Thanks Robert!

This might just save your day too!

New Office 2010 Certifications Available

We've had Office 2010 available for a short while now, and for IT pros Microsoft has already released two Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) on Microsoft Office 2010 certification exams:

• MOS: Microsoft Office Word 2010 (Exam 77-881)
• MOS: Microsoft Office Excel 2010 (Exam 77-882)

Other applications' exams will follow, as well as the Expert level exams. I will reach for the Excel Expert certification and I'm looking forward for the rest of the exams to be released - just in case I'll go after the Master certification. Will keep you posted on my progress :)

A slightly funny detail of the MOS certifications is that Excel 2007 Expert and Word 2007 Expert exams seem to be still in development, and they are not required for the Microsoft Office 2007 Master Certification. I wonder what's the real status of these?

They managed to release a new full Office version meanwhile but these exams for previous version are not done yet :)

Are you planning on taking the MOS certification(s)? Are you going for the fresh 2010 version or for the 2007?

Outlook Social Connector: LinkedIn for Outlook is for 32bit Office Only

Hey LinkedIn, thanks for not mentioning your Outlook Social Connector plugin - called LinkedIn for Outlook - is for 32bit Office only.

I spent a while trying to install the plugin for my 64bit Outlook 2010. There's no indication on the LinkedIn for Outlook website that there is such a limitation.

I assume it's a too big task to add a few numbers and letters close to the Office version list.

Check the buzz around the 64bit issue from The LinkedIn Blog. As you can see, it took LinkedIn quite a while before answering the related questions.