{"id":161,"date":"2005-03-17T19:47:24","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T00:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/17\/microsoft-office-x-project-gallery\/"},"modified":"2005-03-17T19:49:38","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T00:49:38","slug":"microsoft-office-x-project-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/17\/microsoft-office-x-project-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Office X Project Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found that one of the worst &#8220;features&#8221; of Microsoft Office X 2004 is the project gallery that launches every time I launch an Office application.  For example&#8211;when I launch Powerpoint, I get this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/images\/images\/projectGallery-1.jpg\" title=\"Microsoft Office X Project gallery\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/images\/images\/projectGallery-1.jpg','popup','width=712,height=486,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/images\/images\/projectGallery-1-tm.jpg?resize=300%2C204\" height=\"204\" width=\"300\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Projectgallery-1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf I just launched Powerpoint&#8211;not Excel or Entourage, why in the world am I presented with the option to write an email or start a spreadsheet? I mean&#8230; really, at least start by showing me recent documents or do like most other programs and just give me a new, blank document.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a preference to turn this off, but whose ideas was this anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found that one of the worst &#8220;features&#8221; of Microsoft Office X 2004 is the project gallery that launches every time I launch an Office application. For example&#8211;when I launch Powerpoint, I get this: If I just launched Powerpoint&#8211;not Excel or Entourage, why in the world am I presented with the option to write an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-2B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}