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SharePoint 2007 Master Pages Trick
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IE8 and the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
When I read today in an email from Microsoft that IE8 was at RC1 status, I thought I’d give it another try. (I’d downloaded an early beta and it got in the way of me getting things done.) Once I’d installed IE8, rebooted, and launched it, much to my chagrin I was informed that the…
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Branding can often be an anathema to technical types. We often think that we can’t do anything with it unless we have a designer working with us. I proved to myself recently that it’s not actually that complicated. Here’s how it went. All of the changes I outline below happened in Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007…