Saturday, February 24, 2007 - Posts

Office 2007 Document Information Panels - Part 4

If you've worked through my previous posts here, here, and here, you'll now have an InfoPath form template that you've signed and published, and you'll have imported the signing certificate into the Trusted Publishers store on at least one machine. To Read More

Office 2007 Document Information Panels - Part 3

In my previous post I talked about how a custom Document Information Panel (DIP) is actually an InfoPath form.  I said that, in order to use it as a DIP, the InfoPath form template must be published to a network location, and it must be digitally Read More

Office 2007 Document Information Panels - Part 2

In my previous post I talked about the standard Document Information Panel.  Now I want to start talking about designing your own.  First - why would you want to...? Document properties have always been about capturing some non-content values Read More

Office 2007 Document Information Panels - Part 1

In the 2007 versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint we have a new feature called the Document Information Panel (or DIP).  The standard panel is a new way to present the document properties that were there in previous version.  Even this is a Read More