Master Data Management Initiative at Microsoft

Metadata consolidation across the enterprise is a challenge that most larger corporations face. After working in the ECM and EDRMS industries for a while, I am very excited at Microsoft’s Master Data Management (MDM) initiative and the value that an integrated offering would bring to a Solution Architect’s toolset and enterprise strategy. 
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Copy MS Word tables to MS Excel

When you copy table data from MS Word to MS Excel, line breaks in MS Word tables are replaced with new cells in MS Excel.
This can be quite annoying when you are copying and pasting large tables. A work-around is described below:
In the MS Word Table

Replace the string ”^p” with “#”.
Replace the string ”^l” with “#”.
After the above [...]

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