You can try to delete a registry key located at: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VSTA\Solutions\{GUID} The value of {GUID} will be different on your environment. Check to ensure that you’re deleting the right key. Confirm by checking the DWORD “Url” value at the key. Restart Excel and you should be good to go.
For Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Word 2010 (.docx) files you can use the Open XML SDK. This snippet of code will open a document and return its contents as text. It is especially useful for anyone trying to use regular expressions to parse the contents of a Word document. To use this solution you … Read more
Pandoc supports conversion from docx to markdown directly: pandoc -f docx -t markdown foo.docx -o foo.markdown Several markdown formats are supported: -t gfm (GitHub-Flavored Markdown) -t markdown_mmd (MultiMarkdown) -t markdown (pandoc’s extended Markdown) -t markdown_strict (original unextended Markdown) -t markdown_phpextra (PHP Markdown Extra) -t commonmark (CommonMark Markdown)
Yeah, it can get confusing, especially given the skip-level naming conventions, etc. Essentially, you’ll need: Full version (not Express) of Visual Studio and the .NET version you’re targetting. One of the VSTO run times (VSTO 2003, VSTO 2005, VSTO 2005 SE, VSTO 2008, VSTO 2010). For what your asking, VSTO 2005 SE is probably your … Read more
Apparently, when the addin project is created, debug information such as the MS Office version and the executable path used for debugging is saved in the .CSPROJ file. So debug is not guaranteed to work on another machine. This information is saved in following XML node of the project file: ProjectExtensions \ VisualStudio \ FlavorProperties … Read more
Rows(“2:2″).Select ActiveWindow.FreezePanes = True Select a different range for a different effect, much the same way you would do manually. The “Freeze Top Row” really just is a shortcut new in Excel 2007 (and up), it contains no added functionality compared to earlier versions of Excel.
There’s not a whole lot that has changed between VBA6 and VBA7. VBA7 was introduced to support 64-bit versions of both Office and Windows (see below on what those differences are). Here are the key changes: 64-bit support, primarily for API calls. This is both used to make your code work with your OS/Office version … Read more
Yes, you can. You will want to look into MSDN which has a pretty good introduction to it. I might give you a word of warning, Microsoft Office interop is compatible with an API which is now more than 10 years old. Because of this, it is downright nasty to use sometimes. If you have … Read more
From TechNet article on 64-bit editions of Office 2010: If you have installed Office 2010 including Microsoft Outlook 2010, Outlook sets a registry key named Bitness of type REG_SZ on the computer on which it is installed. The Bitness registry key indicates whether the Outlook 2010 installation is 32-bit or 64-bit. This may be useful … Read more
Microsoft has a kb article (link currently broken, Internet Archive snapshot) that covers Protocol Discovery in fine detail. Essentially, Office is trying to determine if your server supports WebDAV (or something like it) so that changes the user makes to the Office document can be pushed back directly to the server.