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As a very distributed engineering organization, our teams in Dynamics AX periodically schedule “workshops” that bring team members from our sites worldwide to meet at a single site and learn hands-on about our plans, features, and visions for our areas. The workshops are essentially run as small conferences that range in size from tens to perhaps one hundred people. Coordinating them is always challenging (and fun).

In this post I’m going to share a simple Visio 2007 diagram I use to communicate the conference schedule. There’s nothing special in terms of “smart” shapes in the diagram – just a straightforward set of shapes arranged to show a day-by-day schedule. Please feel free to reuse and repurpose.

The Visio file is on my OneDrive.

After I installed with the Windows 7 Release candidate, I discovered that Windows 7 comes with some additional variants of the Segoe UI font that first shipped in Vista. I love the Segoe UI (and original Segoe font) and so it’s nice to see that we now have more typographic options with Windows 7.

 

	IN VISTA	IN WINDOWS 7
Segoe UI (Regular)	YES	YES
Segoe UI Bold	YES	YES
Segoe UI Bold italic	YES	YES
Segoe UI Italic	YES	YES
Segoe UI Light	NO	YES
Segoe UI Semibold	NO	YES

 

THE WINDOWS 7 FONTS CONTROL PANEL

Let’s take this opportunity to explore the new Control Panel UI for fonts …

First launch the Control Panel

Click Appearance and Customization

Click Fonts

 

Now we can see all the fonts on the system

 

There are many of them, so type “segoe” in the Search Fonts box in the upper right

And you’ll see the fonts with “Segoe” in their name.

Right-click on “Segoe UI” and select Open

And now you’ll see the name Segoe UI fonts

You can right click on each one and select Preview to see the font in Action…

PREVIEWS

SEGOE UI REGULAR

 

SEGOE UI LIGHT

SEGOE UI ITALIC

SEGOE UI BOLD

SEGOE UI BOLD ITALIC

 

SEGOE UI SEMIBOLD