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he word processor was invented to simplify the preparation of words to be printed on paper. It offered font management, layout management, and the ability to type words onto a
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he previous article in this series discussed how to use the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) platform to build a custom alerting application that used Outlook as the alerting
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