Microsoft Expression Studio is a suite of tools for designing and building web and Windows client applications and rich digital media contents.

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How do I properly vectorise a bitmap using Expression Design 4?

I have a BMP converted from a PDF; bank statement to be precise. I would like to change some text (not figures) using Expression, then export a new PDF. I attempted following the instructions given ...
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Creating paragraphs in Expression Web?

If I press enter, I get a line break (it shows up as <br> in code). How do I make a paragraph (it should show up as <p> bla bla </p>)?
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How to select text on Microsoft Expression Web 4?

I want to select a long text. First I insert the cursor at the beginning. Then scroll down a couple of pages then hit shift & click the end of the part. Expression Web 4 doesn't support this ...
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Windows Experience Index doesn't complete, HAL error in event viewer

So, I was just randomly digging around my laptop and found a couple of weird things. First, the Windows Experience Index goes through its motions, completes all the tests and then throws up this ...
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Microsoft Expression Encoder capture directly to WMV

Hello I use Microsoft Express Encoder 3 Screen Capture to take quick videos of things on the computer. Because of how frequently I do this, I was wondering if there was a setting I was missing to ...
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Why is my Output distorted after encoding with Expression Encoder?

I'm a "n00b" when it comes to re-encoding files. I'm trying to re-encode an AVI into a silverlight container via Encoding Video using Expression Encoder 4.0. As you can see in the video, the left ...
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Microsoft Blend 4 Crashes On Splash Screen [closed]

Recently I encountered a big problem: Blend 4 always crashes immediately after a splash screen ends. No error numbers mentioned, just a crash window saying "Blend has been crashed, debug or close". ...
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What is the latest on Microsoft Expression Studio licensing?

In the past, there's been an issue with Microsoft not allowing you to deactivate an Expression Studio key. Basically, you get two keys per license. If you assign both keys (say one to a desktop and ...
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Internet Explorer 8 still edit html in Expression?

In previous versions I could click an edit button on the toolbar and open up a copy of the web page I was viewing in a specified HTML Editor. Can I still do this-with one click-in IE 8? I have set ...
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Export Sketchflow prototype in an accessible way?

(I'm not sure if this is the correct Stack Exchange for this.) I have a prototype I've built in Sketchflow. I would like to export it so people without Expression can see it. I don't have a webserver ...
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How to get the “New Website” menu item in Expression Web 4?

I have Expression Web 4 installed but I cant see the "New Website" menu item show in this tutorial. http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/dd939172.aspx Any ideas how to get it?
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Application Screen Repainting Issues

I have this issue lately at work. It drives be nuts, and I finally stopped to ask this question. It's quite often that an application I've been running just randomly fails to repaint itself for a ...
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Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Ultimate license problem

I have installed a volume licensed version of Expression Studio 4 Ultimate. When I contacted support, I was told that a product key is not required for volume license version. But after I installing ...
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Can't uninstall Expression Studio 3

Regardless of whether I start the uninstall from the Add/Remove Programs applet or from the original setup executable, I always get this exception on startup: How can I uninstall Expression Studio ...
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The contents of a FrontPage component have been modified

I get this message intermittently with Microsoft Web Expression 3: The contents of a FrontPage component have been modified. These contents will be overwritten when you save this page. I have ...
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Is it possible to change expression blend keyboard shortcut

I'm using Microsoft Expression Blend 3. I need to change mouse wheel zoom command to up down scroll. How to change this?
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Why does a pre-pidded installation of Microsoft Expression Studio 3 ask for a key?

I've downloaded Microsoft Expression Studio 3 from MSDN and installed it. However, after installation, I start the app and it asks for a valid product key, despite the fact that it's pre-pidded (e.g. ...
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Can't uninstall trial version of Expression Blend 3, error writing to file Config.msi

I can not remove a trial version of MS Expression Blend 3 from my pc. I am always getting the same error: "Error writing to C:\Config.msi\6e6288.rbf." The name of the file varies. On the error message ...
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Expression Web 3 - Set Thesaurus

I have recently upgraded from Expression 2 to 3. It's much better, but I cannot get the Thesaurus to work. It worked fine before the upgrade. Precise error message 'No thesaurus is available for ...
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Expression Studio not prompting for serial

I had a msdn registered copy of Expression Studio installed on my machine and recently got a paid licensed copy. I uninstalled it and removed what I could find in the registry that looked related. ...
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Cannot Install Expression Studio 3 on Windows 7 x86 in VMWare 6.5

Cant seem to find help with this problem. Expression Blend 3 setup dialog is not displaying correctly (one button, missing background etc) which prevents me from installing it. I have tried setting ...
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Problem with Expression Blend crashing [closed]

I've recently installed Microsoft Expression Blend 3. I've started the program but I now get this message Microsoft Expression Blend 3 has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop ...
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Themes for the Microsoft Expression series of programs?

Expression Blend, Web, Design, etc all have two themes--Light and Dark. Can I has more?