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The PBoC announced on Saturday that it will publish a new Loan Prime Rate, from today, following a State Council announcement last Friday.
A PBoC rate cut is looking increasingly likely. Policy is already on the loosest setting possible without cutting rates, but the Bank has little to show for its marginal approach to easing, with M1 growth still languishing.
The PBoC hiked its 7-day reverse repo rate by 5bp yesterday, stating that the move was a response to the latest Fed hike.
The PBoC late on Wednesday announced measures to provide medium-term funding for smaller businesses.
The PBoC has let up on its open-market operations after allowing bond yields to move higher again in October.
The PBoC managed to keep interest rates well- anchored around the Chinese New Year holiday, when volatility is often elevated.
China has undoubtedly been through a credit tightening, commonly explained as the PBoC attempting to engineer a squeeze, to spur on corporate deleveraging.
In one line: Not so much retaliation as housekeeping that the PBoC put off until now.
The PBoC left its interest rate corridor, including the Medium-term Lending Facility rate, unchanged last Friday, but published the reformed Loan Prime Rate modestly lower, at 4.20% in September, down from 4.25% in August.
The PBoC cut the reserve requirement ratio by 0.5pp for almost all banks on Sunday, effective from July 5th.
Over the weekend, the PBoC cut the RRR for the vast majority of banks. FX reserves data released shortly after suggested that the Bank already is propping up the currency.
The two major central banks of Asia have chosen hugely divergent policies. The BoJ has chosen to fix interest rates, while the PBoC appears set on preventing a meaningful depreciation of the currency.
In one line: PBoC tops up previous easing measures, and provides clarity on RRR policy intentions for the remainder of the year.
The PBoC finally moved yesterday, cutting its one-year MLF rate by 5bp to 3.25%, whilst replacing around RMB 400B of maturing loans.
Following this week's 25bp Fed hike, the PBoC hiked the main interest rates in its corridor by... 5bp. The move was unexpected so the RMB strengthened modestly; commentary is full of how this means the deleveraging drive is serious.
The PBoC doesn't publicly schedule its meetings, but in recent years has tended to make moves after Fed decisions.
The PBoC has left rates unchanged, so far, in the wake of the Fed hike.
China's money and credit numbers for April were a mixed bag. M2 growth merely inched down, to 8.5% year-over-year, from 8.6% in March, keeping its gradual uptrend intact.
The RMB has risen strongly in recent months, initially with the euro and the yen, but China's currency rose on a trade-weighted basis in August.
China's abysmal industrial profits data for October underscore why the chances of less- timid monetary easing are rising rapidly.
The two major central banks in Asia currently have hugely different aims, causing a policy divergence that won't survive the 2018 rise in external yields.
China was in lockdown ahead of the 70th Anniversary last week, as is typical around important political events.
In one line: A given, following the MLF cut earlier this month
China's November money and credit data were a little less grim, with only M2 growth slipping, due to unfavourable base effects.
Last week the Chinese authorities issued a series of new measures to help with bank recapitalisation, and, we think, to supplement interbank liquidity.
China's M2 growth surprised on the upside in July, rising to 8.5% year-over-year, from 8.0% in June.
The People's Bank of China cut its seven-day reverse-repo rate yesterday, to 2.50% from 2.55%.
In this Monitor, befitting these uncertain times, we set out the decision tree facing Chinese policymakers.
BoJ signals a package is coming in October. Waning construction tarnishes July's all-industry activity report. No PBoC move, for now, but it's coming.
PBoC holding still in the wake of Fed rate cut. China's Caixin manufacturing PMI was due a bounce. Inflation in Korea will soon take another nosedive, due largely to unfavourable non-core base effects. Korea's export slump turned less bad in July. Korea's two main manufacturing surveys aren't talking to each other.
BoJ remains in an alternate reality in order to avoid a rate cut, underlining its concerns over damage to the financial sector. Chances of a serious PBoC blunder are rising. No "Phase 1" sentiment lift for Chinese manufacturers. A sharp fall in China's official services gauge was due. This probably is as good as it'll get for Japanese industrial production. Korean industrial production remains volatile, but the trend is decisively up.
PBoC furthers efforts to push down real economy rates, signals more to come.
Slowing FAI growth underscores the urgency for more PBoC easing October was painful and the slowdown in Chinese IP growth is far from over and no, households in China won't come to the economy's rescue. Japan sneaks in a tax hike; GDP data unfazed. Japan's tertiary index jars with the GDP data.
The PBoC probably will start soon to run modestly easier monetary policy, but conditions have been tightening consistently for over a year, so a slowdown in economic growth likely is already locked in.
Bloomberg reported on Monday that the PBoC is drafting a package of reforms to give foreign investors greater access to the China's financial services sector. This could involve allowing foreign institutions to control their local joint ventures and raising the 25% ceiling on foreign ownership of Chinese banks.
Chinese monetary policymakers can rely on several different instruments to affect market and broad liquidity, ranging from various forms of open market operations to interest rates to FX intervention. The tool kit is constantly changing as the PBoC refines its operations.
China's main activity data for October disappointed across the board, strengthening our conviction that the PBoC probably isn't quite done with easing this year.
In an interview with Bloomberg on Friday, PBoC Governor Yi Gang hinted at the intended policy if the trade war escalates.
The PBoC will find itself between a rock and a hard place in the coming months, as CPI inflation creeps further up towards its 3% target but PPI deflation deepens.
The PBoC's reformed one-year Loan Prime Rate was published yesterday at 4.25%, compared with 4.31% on the previous LPR, and below the benchmark lending rate, 4.35%.
The PBoC reduced its 14-day reverse repo by 5bp to 2.65% in a routine operation yesterday.
The PBoC cut the Reserve Requirement Ratio late on Friday--as signalled at last Wednesday's State Council meeting--by 0.5 percentage points, to be implemented from September 16.
Guo Shuqing, head of the newly formed China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, has been named as Party Secretary for the PBoC.
China's interbank rates in February so far, on average, have been a little more than 20bp below the floor of the PBoC's corridor, the 2.55% seven-day reverse repo rate.
Freya Beamish, chief Asia economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, discusses the lack of inflation in Asia, PBOC policy and China's economy.
Chinese New Year effects were very visible in Japan's December trade data. Export growth slowed sharply to 9.3% year-over-year in December, from 16.2% in November.
China's 2018 property market boomlet let out more air last month.
Korea's preliminary GDP report for Q3 will be released tomorrow.
In his opening speech at the Party Congress, President Xi received warm applause for his comment that houses are "for living in, not for speculation".
Yesterday's partial trade data for Korea showed that the downturn in exports softened to -13.3% year-over-year in August from -13.8% in July, based on the 20-day gauge.
GDP data for Q2 are due July 26; we expect the report to show a marginal dip in growth, to a seasonally adjusted 0.8% quarter-on-quarter, from 1.0% in Q1.
Chinese industrial profits growth officially edged down to 25.1% year-over-year in October, from 27.7% in September. This is still very rapid but we think the official data are overstating the true rate of growth.
It is often argued that the average weekly earnings--AWE--figures exaggerate the severity of the squeeze on households' incomes.
Industrial profits growth is closely watched by the Chinese authorities, even more so now that deleveraging is a prime policy aim.
Since the Party Congress last month, China has made a number of bold moves in multiple policy fields, with a regularity that almost implies the authorities are working through a list.
After the disruption in repo markets last week, theories are flying as to what's going on.
In yesterday's Monitor, we outlined how the government's plans to allow more migrants to register in cities could help counterbalance the effects of aging and put a floor under medium-term property prices.
The year so far in EZ equities has been just as odd as in the global market as a whole.
In yesterday's Monitor, we suggested that China's monetary policy stance is now easing.
In yesterday's Monitor, we laid out the prime causes of China's weekend announcement, cutting the reserve requirement ratio.
China's finance minister Liu Kun provided his report on China's current fiscal situation to the legislature last Friday.
China's industrial profits tanked in January/ February, falling 14.0% year-to-date year-over-year, after a 1.9% drop year-over-year in December.
China's property market is slowly finding its feet, following a marked and consistent moderation in monthly price gains from mid-2018 to early this year.
China's Party Congress is now less than one month away. Most commentators habitually add the words "all-important" before any reference to the event.
The past two days have seen a slew of data that should keep the hawks in the Bank of Korea at bay during the Board's meeting at the end of this month.
The Bank of Korea yesterday laid out its conditions for following July's rate cut with another.
At the end of last year, China's Central Economic Work Conference set out the lay of the land for 2019. Cutting through the rhetoric, we think the readout implies more expansionary fiscal policy, and a looser stance on monetary policy.
We highlighted in previous reports that the Chinese authorities appear to be making a serious pivot from GDPism--the rigid targeting of real GDP growth-- toward environmentalism, with pollution targets now taking centre stage.
China's September PMIs, most of which were released over the weekend, mark out a clear downtrend in activity since late last year.
The BoJ held firm, for the most part, during this year's bout of central bank dovishness.
President Xi Jinping started China's Party Congress yesterday with a speech setting out the priorities for the next five years.
EURUSD has been battered in recent months, falling just over 6% since the end of April, but almost all indicators we look at suggest that the it will weake further towards 1.10, in the second half of the year.
The big question left by the BoJ at yesterday's meeting is how, if at all, they will follow up in October.
Today's data dump will deliver the advance PMIs and the French INSEE business sentiment indices for February, all of which will be examined closely for signs of stabilisation in the wake of recent evidence that EZ growth is slowing quicker than markets and the ECB have been expecting.
The perfect world for equities is one in which earnings and valuations are rising at the same time, but in the Eurozone it seems as if investors have to make do with one or the other.
On the official gauge, China's real GDP growth fell minimally to 6.8% year-on-year in Q3, from 6.9% in Q2. Growth edged down to 1.7% quarter-on-quarter from an upwardly revised 1.8% in Q2.
CPI inflation in India jumped to 4.6% in October, from 4.0% in September, marking a 16-month high and blasting through the RBI's target.
China announced the appointment of key political and financial jobs yesterday.
We anticipated that the G20 meeting at Osaka over last weekend would be a potentially important mark of thawing relations between China and the U.S., with the hotly awaited meeting between Messrs. Xi and Trump.
China reportedly has offered President Trump a $200B reduction in its annual trade surplus with the U.S., engineered by increasing imports of American products, among other steps.
Officially, Japanese wages have been falling year- over-year since January, marking a break from the gradual acceleration over the past 18 or so months.
China is a collection of hugely disparate provinces and cities. Managing all these cities with one interest rate is always difficult but in this cycle it is proving to be nearly impossible.
The Monetary Policy Committee of the RBI ventured into the unknown yesterday, cutting its benchmark repo rate further, by an unconventional 35 basis points, to 5.40%.
The external environment was relatively benign for China in July. The euro and yen appreciated as markets began to question how long policy can remain on their current emergency settings.
China's authorities recognised, around the middle of this year, that activity was slowing and that monetary conditions had become overly tight.
China's Caixin services PMI for December surprised well to the upside, providing a glimmer of hope that the economy isn't losing steam on all fronts.
A growing number of economists have marked down their forecasts for Chinese growth next year to below the critical 6% year-over-year rate, required to ensure that the authorities meet their implicit medium- term growth targets.
The services sector in China is notoriously difficult to track, with the major aggregate statistics published only on a quarterly or even annual basis.
We hadn't expected the scorching 3.6% year-over- year growth rate in Japan's June average wages
China's FX reserves rose to $3119B in November from $3109B in October. But the increase is explained by simultaneous yen, euro and sterling strength, which raises the dollar value of assets denominated in these currencies.
China has a nuclear option in the face of pressure from U.S. tariffs, namely, to devalue the currency.
The first round of trade talks between the U.S.and China kicked off in Beijing on Monday, marking the first face-to-face meeting between the two sides since Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping struck a "truce" in December.
China's meagre cut is not enough. Broad slowdown in Chinese services activity continues. Japan's rate of QE is low but roughly stable.
Geopolitical tensions have risen sharply for Asia in the last few months, yet the RMB has appreciated sharply. China's currency appears to be playing some kind of safe haven role.
The RMB has been on a tear, as expectations for a "Phase One" trade deal have firmed.
One of the main reasons we expect the Reserve Bank of India to roll back at least one of this year's rate cuts before the end of the year is the likely further rise in food inflation.
China's FX reserves data pointed to an about-turn in net capital flows in May, with capital leaving the country again after two months of net inflows, and a current account deficit in Q1.
China is facing a nasty mix of spiking CPI inflation and ongoing PPI deflation.
The economic slowdown in China is old news for Eurozone investors.
The first economic report of 2020 confirmed the main story in the euro area last year; namely a recession in manufacturing.
The Caixin manufacturing PMI picked up to 51.5 in December from 50.8 in November. But the jump looks erratic and we expect it to correct in January.
The forward-looking indices of China's Caixin manufacturing PMI for April attracted more attention than the headline, which was a bit of a non-event; it rose trivially 51.1, from 51.0 in March.
Korean trade ended the year strongly, salvaging what was shaping up as a dull fourth quarter for the economy.
China is set to ease reserve requirements for banks lending to small businesses. In a statement after the State Council meeting yesterday, Premier Li Keqiang said that commercial banks would receive a cut in their RRR , from 17% currently, based on how much they lend to businesses run by individuals.
China's total debt stock is high for a country at its stage of development, relative to GDP, but it is sustainable for country with excess savings. China was never going to be a typical EM, where external debtors can trigger a crisis by demanding payment.
Industrial profits in China dropped 3.7% year-over- year in April, after surging 13.9% in March, according to the officially reported data.
The Caixin PMI likely remained stable or even strengthened in January. The December jump was driven by the forward-looking components, with both the new export orders and total new orders indices picking up.
Chinese headline industrial profits data show that growth slowed to just 4.1% year-over-year in September, from 9.2% in August.
Korean hard data for December, so far, leave the door ajar for the possibility that the Bank of Korea will roll back its November hike sooner than we expect.
The BoJ has no good options, and its leeway for changes to existing policy instruments is limited.
So that happened.
Let's say we are right, and global yields go up this year. Somewhere in the world, imbalances will be exposed, causing financial ructions and damaging GDP growth.
Following the much-anticipated meeting between Presidents Xi and Trump over the weekend, the U.S. will now leave existing tariffs on $200B of Chinese goods at 10%, rather than increasing the rate to 25% in January, as previously slated.
Was this an isolated occurrence, connected to the graft investigation into Chinese billionaire Xiao Jianhua, and his financial conglomerate?
In yesterday's Monitor we suggested that China's profits surge has been party dependent on developers' risky debt issuance practices.
In the last few weeks markets have been treated to the news that euro area industrial production crashed towards the end of Q4, warning that GDP growth failed to rebound at the end of 2018 from an already weak Q3.
The big difference in this round of stimulus is in the complete lack of easing on the shadow banking side.
China's M2 growth stabilised in November, at 8.0% year-over-year, matching the October rate.
China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange-- SAFE--yesterday refuted claims, made earlier in the week, that senior government officials had recommended slowing or halting purchases of U.S. Treasuries.
China's 1.8% downshift in the RMB/dollar reference rate will make only a microscopic difference to the pace of U.S. economic growth and inflation. It will not deter the Fed from raising rates if the domestic labor market continues to tighten, as all the data suggest. The drop in the RMB merely restores the nominal exchange rate to its fall 2012 level, since which time the real exchange rate has risen by some 20%, according to the BIS.
Chinese exports grew by just 5.5% in dollar terms year-over-year in August, down from 7.2% in July. Export growth continues to trend down, with a rise of just 0.2% in RMB terms in the three months to August compared to the previous three months, significantly slower than the 4.8% jump at the p eak in January.
We have recently looked at China's capacity to grow its way out of the debt overhang--see here--and whether last year's deleveraging can be sustained; see here.
China's PPI deflation deepened in August, with prices dropping 0.8% year-over-year, after a 0.3% decline in July.
China's Q2 official GDP growth, to be released on Monday, likely slowed to 6.2% year-over-year, from 6.4% in Q1.
China's PPI inflation has been trending down since early 2017.
China's money and credit numbers were once again unspectacular in August. M2 growth edged up to 8.2% year-over-year, from 8.1% in July.
GDP growth in Japan surprised to the upside in the second quarter, although the preliminary headline arguably flattered the economy's actual performance.
Last week, the Chinese authorities were out in force, talking up the economy and markets, and bearing measures to support private firms.
We have downgraded our 2019 and 2020 China GDP forecasts on previous occasions because monetary conditions have been surprisingly unresponsive to lower short-term rates.
China's residential property market surprised again in August, with prices popping by 1.5% month- on-month, faster than the 1.2% rise in July, and the biggest increase since the 2016 boomlet.
Monetary policy loosening over the last year implies that China's M1 growth already should be picking up.
Business investment in Japan took a nasty hit in the third quarter.
China's unadjusted trade surplus collapsed in February, to just $4.1B, from $39.2B in January.
The year-long surge in CPI inflation in China will soon end.
Japan's regular wage growth continued to edge up in November, maintaining the rising trend. The headline is volatile, with growth in labour cash earnings rising to 0.9% year-over-year in November, up from a downwardly revised 0.2% in October.
China's CPI inflation rose to 2.1% in July, from 1.9% in June.
The BoJ yesterday kept the policy balance rate at -0.1%, and the 10-year yield target at "around zero", in line with the consensus.
The BoJ had two tasks at its meeting yesterday.
President Moon was elected earlier this year on a promise to rebalance the economy toward domestic demand and reduce export dependency. It's not the first time politicians have received such a mandate.
China's FX reserves were little changed in June, at $3,112B.
We wrote last month about how the Caixin services PMI appeared to be missing the deterioration in several key services subsectors.
PPI inflation in Asia looks set to go from bad to worse, following June's poor numbers, which showed that the weakness in commodity prices is feeding through quicker than expected.
The German trade data on Friday completed a poor week for economic reports in the Eurozone's largest economy. The seasonally adjusted trade surplus fell to €22.1B in May, from €24.1B in April, mainly due to a 1.8% month-to-month fall in exports. Imports, on the other hand, were little changed.
Yesterday's price data for China showed continued declines in both CPI and PPI inflation.
Chinese PPI inflation fell to 4.9% in December, from 5.8% in November. The decline was expected, but underneath the slowdown in commodity price inflation, the rate of increase of manufacturing goods prices is slowing sharply too.
Japan's labour cash earnings rose by 1.5% year-over- year in July, a strong result in the Japanese context, if it hadn't been preceded by the 3.6% leap in June.
Chinese monetary conditions remain tight. Systemic tightening through higher interest rates last year is playing a role, but intensified and ever- more public regulatory enforcement is becoming the primary driver of tightening credit conditions for businesses.
One critical point emerged from last week's otherwise uneventful BoJ meeting: Governor Kuroda said that the BoJ might "adjust" rates before hitting the 2% inflation target.
We can't afford the luxury of believing China's year-over-year growth rates. Real GDP growth was 6.8% year-over-year in Q1, matching the rate in Q4 and Q3, and hitting consensus.
We held our breath this month.
Chinese prices largely moved in line with our expectations in September, according to yesterday's data.
Chinese policymakers' calls to abandon the obsession with high GDP growth--GDPism--are multiplying.
China's money data, out last week, bode ill for real GDP growth in the second half. June M2 growth dipped to 9.4% year-over-year from 9.6% in May and 10.5% in April.
Chinese real GDP growth reportedly edged down to 6.7% year-over-year in Q2, from 6.8% in Q1.
At the end of last year, after October's Party Congress, the Chinese authorities came out with significant new directives and regulations on an almost weekly basis.
Chinese official headline data paint a picture of a strengthening economy in Q2. Our analysis shows a sharply contrasting picture. China's nominal GDP, real GDP and deflators are often internally inconsistent.
Our colleagues have been telling some unpleasant stories recently.
Markets have given the BoJ a break this month, with the 10-year JGB yield rising back into the implied band around the 0% target, and the yen snapping its appreciation streak.
Money and credit data released last weekend suggest that China's demand for credit remains insatiable.
Rapidly increasing food inflation is creating all sorts of dilemmas for policymakers in Asia's giants.
China's investment slowdown went from worrying to frightening in October. Last week's fixed asset investment ex-rural numbers showed that year- to-date spending grew by 5.2% year-over-year in October, marking a further slowdown from 5.4% in the year to September.
We had expected the batch of Chinese data released at the end of last week to disappoint.
Take China's data dump last Friday with a pinch of salt, as Chinese New Year--CNY-- effects look to have distorted January's money and price data.
Our view on the trade data last week was that U.S. tariff hikes have caused minimal damage, so far. China's tariff increases on imports to date have resulted in stockpiling, with little evidence in the CPI of any inflationary pressure.
China's trade surplus jumped to a six-month high of $46.8B in December, from $37.6B in November, on the back of a strong increase in exports.
Investors anticipate a shift up in the MPC's hawkish rhetoric today. After August's consumer price figures showed CPI inflation rising to 2.9%--0.2 percentage points above the Committee's forecast--the market implied probabilities of a rate hike by the November and February meetings jumped to 35% and 60%, respectively, from 20% and 40%.
China's monetary conditions remain tight, pointing to a substantial downtrend in GDP growth this year and next.
China and the U.S. are officially to restart trade talks, according to China's Ministry of Commerce, after previous negotiations stalled in June.
The National People's Congress yesterday announced a sweeping restructuring of Party/State architecture.
China's import growth in dollar terms slowed sharply to 4.5% year-over-year in December from 17.7% in November, significantly below the consensus forecast.
China's M2 growth slowed to 8.2% year-over-year in August, from 8.5% in July
China's money and credit data released last Friday reaffirm our impression that the tightening has gone too far.
A bad year is threatening to become a catastrophic one for Eurozone equity investors.
The Chinese authorities have been out in force in the last few days, aiming to reassure markets and the populace that they are ready and able to support the economy, after abysmal trade data on Monday.
China's March money and credit data, published last Friday, showed that conditions continue to tighten, posing a threat to GDP growth this year.
Chinese M1 growth has slowed sharply in the past year from the 25% rates prevailing in the first half of last year. Growth appeared to rebound in July to 15.3% year-over-year, from 15.0% in June. But the rebound looks erratic. Instead, growth has probably slowed slightly less sharply in 2017 than the official data suggest, but the downtrend continues.
We aren't convinced that China's recovery is in train just yet.
As promised, Mr. Trump retaliated earlier this week against China's weekend retaliation, after his refusal to back down on the initial tariffs on $50B-worth of imports of Chinese goods, on top of the steel and aluminium tariffs first announced back in March.
The PBoC and Ministry of Finance have been locked in a relatively public debate recently over which body should shoulder the burden of stimulating the economy as growth slows and trade tensions take their toll.
The sell-off in risky assets intensified while we were away, driven by China's decision to loosen its grip on the currency, and looming rate hikes in the U.S. The Chinese move partly shows, we think, the PBoC is uncomfortable pegging to a strengthening dollar amid the unwinding investment boom and weakness in manufacturing.
The PBOC is hesitant, but the case for an outright rate cut continues to build..
The PBoC's quarterly monetary policy report seemed relatively sanguine on the question of PPI deflation, attributing it mainly to base effects--not entirely fairly--and suggesting that inflation will soon return.
In one line: Phase One trade deal takes pressure off the PBoC to defend the RMB.
In one line: Don't count out a likely last-minute PBoC cut before the end of the year
BOJ is out of ammo; PBOC still has options...and is likely to fight back against RMB strength
In one line: Earth to Trump, the PBoC isn't devaluing the yuan
In one line: China's October money and credit data make a mockery of the 5bp PBoC rate cut
In one line: That's a bit better, but still no room for PBoC complacency
Are there any signs of a Chinese recovery yet? Freya Beamish discusses
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In my previous posts, I explored how to identify text in a PowerPoint slide and use the Google .NET API to translate it; let's put it all together in a simple VSTO add-in for PowerPoint 2007.
The translation functionality is displayed in a Custom Task Pane, where you can pick the language of origin, and the language to translate to. I used the same general design I presented in my Excel add-in tutorial, using WPF controls in the task pane with the MVVM pattern, leveraging the small yet very useful MVVM foundation framework. When running, this is how the add-in looks like:
I added only 3 languages in there, but it is fairly easy to modify the code and get it to work with any language pair supported by Google translate.
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Tags: PowerPoint, translation, Google, add-in, Office, OBA, vsto
Category: VSTO ∙ C#
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I am currently on a project which involves creating a PowerPoint VSTO add-in. I have very limited experience with PowerPoint automation, so before committing to the project, I thought it would be a good idea to explore a bit the object model, to gauge how difficult things could get, and I set to write a small PowerPoint add-in which would automatically translate slides. Sounds like a simple enough project, how difficult could it be?
Turns out, not too difficult, but not completely trivial either. I discovered quickly that the PowerPoint object model, unlike most Office applications, doesn't have much (any?) documentation for the .Net developer; the best I found is the VBA PowerPoint 2007 developer reference, which gives a decent starting point to figure out what the objects are about. So I thought I would share my exploration of the PowerPoint jungle, and hopefully spare some trouble to other .Net developers.
The objective is simple: write an add-in which allows the user to
The plan will be to use Google Translate to perform the translation. In order to do that, we will nedd to extract out all pieces of text that require translating.
Lets' start by identifying where we have text in the current slide. Let's first create a PowerPoint 2007 Add-in project in Visual Studio. To keep things simple for now, we will add a Ribbon control with a button, and when that button is clicked, we'll start working on the current slide:
Double-click on the Button (I renamed my button translateButton) to generate an event handler for the Click event, and get the current Slide:
private void translateButton_Click(object sender, RibbonControlEventArgs e)
var powerpoint = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application;
if (powerpoint.ActivePresentation.Slides.Count > 0)
var slide = (PowerPoint.Slide)powerpoint.ActiveWindow.View.Slide as PowerPoint.Slide;
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Time to wrap this series on VSTO add-ins for Excel 2007. Now that we have a working application-level add-in, we want to deploy it on the user machine. There are two ways to do that: ClickOnce and Windows Installer. In this post, I will go over creating a basic installer using Windows installer with Visual Studio 2008. Very soon, we'll have a VIP guest blogger who will tell you all you need to know about ClickOnce deployment and VSTO.
This post borrows heavily from the Microsoft white paper linked below, which is absolutely excellent. I mostly paraphrased it, focusing on the how and not the why. I strongly encourage you to go to the source and read it for more details:
Deploying a VSTO 3.0 Solution for Office 2007 System Using Windows Installer
The white paper comes with sample code, covering a few scenarios:
VSTO installer sample code
This post borrows heavily from the Microsoft white paper linked below, which is absolutely excellent. I mostly paraphrased it, focusing on the how and not the why. I strongly encourage you to go to the source and read it for more details:
Deploying a VSTO 3.0 Solution for Office 2007 System Using Windows Installer
The white paper comes with sample code, covering a few scenarios:
VSTO installer sample code
Note: the following applies to Office 2007 projects. If your add-in needs to run on Excel 2003, you should follow this guidance instead: Deploying VSTO Solutions Using Windows Installer (Part 2 of 2)
Surgeon General Warning: prolonged reading of material pertaining to msi deployment can cause drowsiness or confusion; absolutely no risk whatsoever of euphoria is to be expected.
This post is not going to be sexy. My goal is to have a check-list of what to do to get your add-in to install correctly. The steps require no thinking, and are frankly rather boring. I find some steps pretty obscure, and recommend patience and soothing music; you may consider also having some sacrificial offering ready to appease the Great Installer Voodoo deity (a nice chicken will usually do).
We will start from where we left off, with a working add-in (download the add-in here). Let's first fill in the fields describing our assembly, by right-clicking on the project:
ClearLines.Anakin > Properties > Application > Assembly information:
Next, let's set the configuration to Release, so that we feed the optimized release version to the installer. Right-click on the Solution (not the add-in project), select Configuration Manager, and set ClearLines.Anakin to Release instead of Debug.
Tags: excel 2007, oba, add-in, vsto, setup, install, msi, deployment, prerequisites
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I finally got to reviewing and scrubbing the code for the part 2 of my Excel 2007 VSTO tutorial; you can download the code here. Next chapter, we will venture into the joys of deployment.
In the meanwhile, please feel free to let me know in the comments what you think, like and dislike, and how I can make this better!
Tags: excel 2007, vsto, code, oba, office, add-in, code sample
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Today's post will be much lighter than the previous episode: we will display detailed information about the differences that have been found on the ComparisonView control. To do this, we will bind properties of the Difference to the control, and use a WPF Value Converter to dynamically format the control.
You can find the complete list of episodes, and a link to the source code of the Excel VSTO add-in tutorial here.
You can find the complete list of episodes, and a link to the source code of the Excel VSTO add-in tutorial here.
The add-in tracks cells where either the values or the formulas are different. We will simply display "side-by-side" the values and formulas of the cell that is being compared in the ComparisonView control:
To do this we need to provide a way to access the value and formula of each side of the comparison, so first we add the following properties to the Difference class:
public class Difference
public string OriginalValue
get; set;
public string OtherValue
get; set;
public string OriginalFormula
get; set;
public string OtherFormula
get; set;
Tags: excel 2007, mvvm, binding, converter, oba, vsto, add-in
Category: VSTO ∙ Excel
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Call for Street Traders
Organisers for the upcoming Festival of Illustration are calling for all street traders who would like to attend the three-day street market in Hartlepool to get their application in before 15th May.
The Festival of Illustration will launch on Thursday 4 June with a series of events including exhibitions by international artists, masterclasses with illustrators and cartoonists and a market with illustrators, print makers and other creative businesses. This is being supported with a lively street market in Church Square with a wide range of food, beverages and other stalls for visitors to enjoy.
Fees for a space at the open door event are £100 for three days and full traders packs are available on application to email@example.com or contact Pat Chapman on Tel: (01429) 858430. Cabins are 3m by 2.5m, are fully lockable and are protected by 24-hour security. Pitches must be set up by 4pm on 4 June and trading is from 5pm – 9pm on Thursday and 9am -5pm on Friday and Saturday. Applications for trading must be in by 15th May.
Pat Chapman, Head of Employability and Enterprise at CCAD, said: "This is going to be a very popular event and we encourage traders to get in touch and not miss out on this excellent opportunity to be involved."
Lead by Cleveland College of Art & Design, in collaboration with Hartlepool Borough Council and Seven Stories, the Festival of Illustration is a free month-long event in Hartlepool which will bring world-renowned illustrators, cartoonists and comic artists to the town with exhibitions, a symposium, illustrators market, masterclasses, street market, storytelling and workshops.


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Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Released: June 1st 2014
My Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5
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When Selkie goes in search of the mother she's never known, she gets more than she bargained for. It turns out that her mother is faerie royalty, which would make Selkie a faerie princess—except for the part where her father is an ogre, which makes her only half of anything. Even more confusing, there's a prophecy that Selkie is going to destroy the tyrannical Seelie Court, which is why her mother actually wants to kill her. Selkie has been kept hidden all her life by her adoring aunts, with the help of a Salem wizard named Will. And Ben. Because the boy she thinks she's in love with turns out to be a faerie whose enchantment has kept her alive, but also kept her in the dark about her own life.
Now, with enchantments dissolved and prophecies swinging into action, Selkie finds herself on a series of mad quests to save the people she's always loved and a life she's learning to love. But in a supernatural world of increasingly complex alliances and distressingly complicated deceptions, it's so hard to know who to trust. Does her mother really wish to kill her? Would Will sacrifice her for the sake of the prophecy? And does Ben really love her or is it all an elaborate ruse? In order to survive, Selkie realizes that the key is learning—and accepting—who she really is. (from Goodreads)
There was a lot I liked about The Girl Who Never Was, but I did have a few issues with it as well which are difficult to put into words. But overall, I enjoyed it and will probably read the next book.
The main character Selkie was fine, but I feel she lacked personality. We didn't find out much about her and her existence was very much defined by other people; her mother who wanted to kill her, her aunts who were trying to hide her, the boy who enchanted her...I can't really describe Selkie herself because the book didn't actually tell me much about her personality. All I really knew about her was that she was ridiculously loyal to Ben, who she actually didn't know that well. That being said, Selkie's story was very interesting. She was half faerie, half ogre, and a child of a prophecy with potential to bring down the Seelie court - where her mother was Queen. Her own mother was hunting her down, and it was for this reason that her whole life has been enchanted to protect her from anyone trying to harm her. This part was a little confusing; apparently Selkie telling Ben her birthdate was the first step to breaking the protective enchantment, but I did question how she'd managed to get by her whole life without mentioning it to anyone. Why did she feel seventeen was such a big, important age? However, once the enchantment was broken, things got a lot more interesting. We found out that Selkie was a powerful namer; in the faerie world, names had power and Selkie could exercise more than the average faeries. I really liked the way naming was used in this book and the way Selkie could manipulate what she was saying to change its effect, and I am definitely interested in seeing how she will use this power in the future.
Ben was a powerful faerie, the one who created the protective enchantment, and was the last faerie of his bloodline. Before Selkie broke the enchantment, he was just a boy she met at the park that she had a crush on, but after, things got a little more complex. First of all, Selkie's crush on Ben developed into "love" in no time at all for no reason, so this book was a little insta-lovey, though it wasn't that bad because there wasn't actually too much romance and there were other things the characters had to worry about. I did think Selkie going to the Seelie court to save Ben was a bit much when she barely knew anything about him, had absolutely no plan AND knew that he only got captured because he was trying to protect her, so that was a bit odd. But I did enjoy reading about the Seelie court and everything that happened there, plus after that ending, I am intrigued about what will happen next.
Kelsey was Selkie's best friend from the human world, and while I liked her, it was kind of odd the lengths she was willing to go to help Selkie, because I never got the feeling that they were that close friends. I think this may have been a writing issue, because the writing at the beginning was a little disjointed and I felt disconnected from the characters and everything that was happening (though it did get better as the book went on). We were told that Kelsey and Selkie were meant to be close but I just didn't get that feeling at all so when Kelsey was willing to do all this dangerous stuff, it was a bit weird. But then again, this could just be me! One thing I did love was the fact that all the immortal (well, I assume immortal because they were hundreds of years old) characters kept bringing up all these things that had happened in their love lives ages ago and were holding grudges and it was just kind of hilarious to see people like the wizard Will, the Threader and one of Selkie's aunts all get into an argument about who ruined whose relationship hundreds of years ago.
Overall, I did like The Girl Who Never Was despite the problems I had with it, and would recommend it, especially if you enjoy books about faeries.


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Here at Perishable Press, the number of posts listed in my archives is rapidly approaching the 700 mark. While this is good news in general, displaying such a large number of posts in an effective, user-friendly fashion continues to prove challenging. Unfortunately, my current strategy of simply dumping all posts into an unordered list just […] Continue »


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In the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is this fascinating lock made in 1680 by British locksmith John Wilkes. Known as the detector lock, the brass and steel mechanism would have been fitted to a door where valuables are kept. The lock features a numbered dial that shows how many times a door had been opened. On the left side of the dial is a figure of a man holding a pointer and each time the key is turned in the lock, the engraved dials rotates and the pointer indicates a number. To reset the counter back to zero, just push the tiny button on the man's jacket. The keyhole is concealed by the man's front leg, which operates on a pivot and to reveal it, another button is pressed which swings the leg forward. The door-bolt is released by tilting the man's hat.
The inscription on the front of the lock reads:
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can you clarify on the frame not being the same as it used to be?turlutu wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2018 10:14 pmI don't have ridden nor the CAAD12 nor the Allez Sprint or Spooky .
A friend of mine had a caad12 and is now on the allez sprint ,he's a mtb racer powerfull and uses road training and race to prepare mtb races .
The caad12 was confortable due to the 25,4mm seat post but no it hasn't quality ride .
The gap between the headset and the fork is a shame I think .
And yes lot of BB finish ovalized on the caad10 and 12 .
The Allez sprint felt 90% as good as the SL5 tarmac . It's definitely harsher than the caad12 but you have the same tires clearance as on the caad12 so go wide and play with pressure). It's fast
I think if you ride hard enough , long enough and frequently after one season you can feel your alu frame isn't the same as it used to be ( valid for caad12 , allez sprint , spooky all of aluminium frames ... no matters what treatment or tubing are used it's inherent to the material itself young modulus , elastic limit that sort of thing) . ( 8000 9000 km ? don't know
So he thinks of his alu frames as disposables items
So do I
That's why I have more interest in cf,steel, stainless steel , or titanium
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Make teens illegal. Make fans illegal. Make Twitter illegal. That's pretty much the only reasonable response to seeing FKA Twigs tweet that she's been subject to a stream of racist harassment online over the weekend. At least a good percentage of the comments in question seem to come from fans of Robert Pattinson, who she is dating.
Jezebel screencapped some of the worst offenders. See more over there.
I am genuinely shocked and disgusted at the amount of racism that has been infecting my account the past week.
— FKA twigs (@FKAtwigs) September 28, 2014
Racism is unacceptable in the real world and it's unacceptable online.
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Here are 2 tricks I use on every Bootstrap-based Drupal website to make sure top-level menu items work correctly on all devices.
Drupal's Bootstrap theme makes developing responsive sites streamlined. But the way it handles menus can be problematic. Moreover, if you are using the Special Menu Items module, its out-of-the-box configuration will make the links nonfunctional on touchscreens. Here are 2 quick tips I use on almost every website to make menus work across devices.
Special Menu Items - which is great for creating placeholder links - will automatically create a span around your placeholder links. In order for the links to work (that is, to actually trigger the dropdown) on touchscreens, this needs to be changed to an anchor link. At admin/config/system/special_menu_items, change the "HTML tag for nolink " from
<a href="#">
The default Bootstrap menus are designed to work with touchscreens, and as a result, the top level menu item - whether a placeholder or an actual link - is unclickable. To fix this, a simple solution is to create a javascript file containing:
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function DropdownToggle() {
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What Is The Wellness Model?
At The Transformation Center, we operate based upon a therapeutic paradigm known as the wellness model. This is distinctly different from the twelve-step approach some programs utilize.
Why use EMDR?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one of many therapies that we employ at the Transformation Center.
Alejandra's Story
The powerful story of one woman's life-saving experience at the Transformation Center. Alejandra bravely shares her struggles with trauma and eating disorders.
What Is The Difference Between Trauma & PTSD?
What do we mean when we refer to trauma and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)? Are they the same thing? How are they related?
Does My Trauma Really Warrant Treatment?
Many people worry that their trauma is not serious enough to warrant treatment. They think PTSD can only come about as a result of combat or physical violence. The truth is quite different.
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A past eating disorder client at the Transformation Center shares her story and encouragement for those like her.
What Happens During an Assessment?
The Transformation Center offers free assessments to see if you are a good candidate for the eating disorder program or the Trauma/PTSD program. This is what you can expect.
What is entailed in IOP and PHP Treatment?
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In the market for an iPhone? Here's a breakdown of all the currently shipping iPhones from Apple.
OnLive Intros Virtual Windows 7 Desktop With Office for iPad
GigaOm has details about how the service will work:
Since applications are running on high-end computing clusters in OnLive's data centers, the only thing holding back performance is the network. Which means that in today's world of pervasive broadband connectivity, Windows applications running on an iPad could potentially be faster than those running on a standard Windows 7 laptop.The Verge notes that when they tried the app at OnLive HQ, there was "a little bit of perceptible lag, it's pretty impressive manipulating objects with our fingers and flipping through PowerPoint presentations on a desktop miles away."
OnLive is making the Desktop app available in a freemium model through which users will get 2GB worth of cloud storage and the ability to use Windows 7 applications such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint, as well as other utilities and games. Documents can be stored in the cloud and accessed from any device with a web interface. In the near future, OnLive expects to launch Onlive Desktop Pro, a more robust service that will offer up 50 GB of storage, priority access, additional apps and other features for $9.99 a month. It also promises collaboration features for enterprise users such as sharing documents or working on virtual whiteboards.
OnLive previously announced iPad and iPhone support for its gaming products, though those apps have yet to be publicly released.
Available this Thursday in the U.S. and "soon" in the UK, OnLive Desktop for the iPad will be free on the App Store.
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I don't even want a real Windows POS. Why would I want a virtual one? :p
LOL! More like...
I love Macintosh Computers Made By Apple. :thimb:
Worst...video game.....EVER!
I don't want a real Windows POS. Why would I want a virtual one? :p
It's free. You don't have to use it you know.
So how fast would that broadband connection need to be, to be faster than a laptop?
It'll be as fast as whatever computer they've got it running on on their end. Your connection is only responsible for how fast the screen updates between commands.
I think this is really cool, a virtual windows 7 desktop? thats amazing
Yes, RDP was so Amazing when it got introduced... back in Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server edition. :rolleyes:
I am curious as to how this is working out with Microsoft licensing-wise.MS has terminal service licenses for uses like this.
They are a bit cheaper than the traditional desktop license as you only have to license the number of sessions per server, not the number of users.
(per seat licensing).
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Document Type: Research Paper
1 PhD Student, University of Science and Technology Tehran, Iran
2 Faculty of Chemical Eng. Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
3 Faculty of Chemical Eng., Tarbiat Modares Univ. Tehran, IRan
4 Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology group, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
5 Microbiology Group, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
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What is the Bicheno Blowhole? Good question, because it gets lots of mentions in promotional material about the town on the east coast of Tasmania. So it must be significant. And do you know what else (or should I say who?) gets mentioned a lot when people find out you're heading that way? The butcher and the baker! We're firm believers in the adage: when in Rome, do as the Romans do. So while in Bicheno, we thought we'd check out the Big B trio.
Bicheno Blowhole
Originally, we had planned a title along the lines of Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker. Yes, we are hilarious. And yes, we spend way too much time on our articles. But in the end, we couldn't find a suitable candidate in the latter category, so we've adapted. And really, the Bicheno Blowhole is definitely worthy of an article.
Usually on holidays in Tasmania, you hope for a calm day. If you're going out fishing in a boat, you want minimal swell. But if you're going to visit the Bicheno Blowhole, you want a really big swell, because that's when you see the best action! Along the esplanade, not far from the Gulch, is a huge boulder on the foreshore, shaped a bit like a diamond. As if it's been strategically placed, to mark the spot!
I don't think that would be the case, because the signs from the road do an equally good job of pointing the way. But once you're at the Bicheno Blowhole, approach with caution. Because if the ocean swell is big enough, water can shoot 20 metres in the air; and it's very hard to escape as it rains down over the lichen-covered rocks. If you time it right, you can capture some terrific photos or videos.
Shopping in Bicheno: Butcher
The Blowhole is a stone's throw from the Bicheno holiday house we told you about earlier. Rob and Louise gave us a list of things to do for the weekend, and they made particular mention of the local butcher, Rob Breier. Debbie from Bicheno Ocean View Retreat also gave a glowing endorsement of Sir Loin Breier Gourmet Butcher, Deli and Seafood. Both times, we took heed of local knowledge, and sampled some of the delicacies. With smoked quail, gourmet hand-made sausages, fresh crayfish and local wines on the menu, why wouldn't you?
Bicheno Baker
And you can't eat sausages from the BBQ without some lovely fresh bread to wrap them in. So we also ventured into the Blue Edge Bakery, which is almost next door to the butcher. The baker (Ian Cunliffe, who is also the owner) sells the things you'd usually expect to find in a bakery, such as award-winning pies, cakes and loaves. But you'll also find a few extra specialties, like raspberry and rhubarb tarts and choc-filled croissants. Pretty hard to resist, even if you do set out just to buy bread.
So there you have it. The Bicheno Blowhole, Butcher and Baker. Not your traditional trio, but a worthy collection all the same. We would visit all three again next time. Actually, we'll probably visit all three EVERY time we visit Bicheno. And we still have more things to share with you about the east coast seaside town. Maybe this will be a series by alphabet? Stay tuned.


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gmail/weather docklets dont connect Bug #661923
Hi, I'm using Mint 9 LXDE on a Thinkpad 600E......it struggles!
Today, I installed Docky and Python-Docky, and then had to install composite Mgr.
All way too complicated or a newb like me.
You can imagine my elation when it eventually worked....or didn't in the case of weather and Gmail docklets.
Investigating led me here, and I'm annoyed to find that the version of Docky I downloaded today March 3rd (it's now 2 hrs into the 4th!) was out of date, (release 2.0.6) and there are later versions that have this bug fixed. Grrrr
Do I have to start all over again, or is there some shortcut to update my installed version....I'm totally lost and need advice!
Also, is there a WiFi docklet? I can't find one.
Three days in and rather perversely, for the first time (of approx 8 "boots") Docky has loaded both the gmail and weather docklets perfectly, the gmail one announcing the question has been answered by Robert Dyer.
I think that communication has put Docky on it's best behaviour!.....lets see how long it lasts, then I might try his suggestion of a "ppa" ,..........that will be a scary experience!
Do I have to update to 2.1.0 first?
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Shopping for a man
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Marie-Claude Pelletier earns her living turning the fashion-challenged into Beau Brummels
Marie-Claude Pelletier is shopping for a man. Actually, she likes to browse around for several guys every week. Insatiable, you think? Maybe so, but she does her job so well that these men end up paying her.
Pelletier, 30, runs Les Effrontés, a clothes-shopping service for men who don't have the time or the interest to shop on their own. These days, she makes her living at it, but her business began as a game about a year ago, when she went shopping on behalf of a friend's boyfriend.
« My friends were telling me, 'Men's fashion is so boring. My boyfriend looks like s–t – he's always wearing jeans and a T-shirt, and there's nothing for him in stores,' » she said.
Pelletier whose background is in men's fashion design, was shocked -not at her friend's harsh criticism, but at their ignorance about men's fashion.
« You have all different styles for all different types of women. It's the same for men. »
The upshot: Pelletier and her friend's boyfriend went shopping. The result: « His girlfriend called me the same night to say, 'He'll never go shopping alone again. It will be always with you.' »
Pelletier, who charges $50 an hour for her service (most jobs take two or three hours), has dressed more than 50 men since then, and now has four or five clients a week.
About a month ago Marc Prévost, an associate producer at the television network Réseau des Sports, found out on a Thursday that he was going to an awards ceremony the following Sunday. He worked in jeans or Gap pants.
Prévost doesn't like shopping, and had no time to do it anyway. His girlfriend phoned Pelletier at 11:30 Thursday night. « The next day, she had two suits for me, » he said.
« I had little hesitation before I tried the pants on », he said. « They were sort of stretch pants. It's a new style, supposedly. I don't follow that much. But they were very comfortable, very chic, very clean. »
Prévost says he felt great in the clothes, and got lots of positive comments from co-workers at the ceremony. His girlfriend, Julie Rochette, said that when she saw him in his new suit, « I felt in love again. » The bill came up to 755$, plus one hour of Pelletier's time. « But I was so happy I also gave her a bottle of wine, » Prévost said.
Dissatisfied girlfriends scheming to transform their fellas from schmoes into beaus should take note – Pelletier is not running a boyfriend-improving service. True, she only shops for men, but if the guy's not into it, Pelletier won't take the case.
Personable, unpretentious, and adamantly non-judgemental, Pelletier is good at putting people at ease. She generally begins by meeting her clients for coffee.
« After 15 minutes, it's just like talking to a friend. They don't feel that I will laugh at them or judge them. They just talk, and it gives me a lot of information to go shopping for them, » she said. « Sometimes we don't even talk about clothes. »
She does need a few crucial pieces of information -she has to know, for instance, where he'll wear her wares- does he need clothes for work, the week-end, a wedding, a wild night on the town? Other big determining factors are body type, personality and job -an architect dresses differently from an accountant.
Armed with this information, Pelletier finds it unnecessary for the client to accompany her to the stores. All the clients has to do is try the clothes on, either at his workplace or at her studio in Old Montreal.
Stores such as Harry Rosen and Holt Renfrew offer a shopping service for men, but Pelletier has the advantage of not being affiliated with a particular store. She has an extensive network of distributors and suppliers, but she is not a wholesaler. Her cheapest jobs end up costing the client about 700$, but a boy with a bigger budget can get more options.
Another of Pelletier's rules: No saying no until you've tried the clothes on. Usually her clients are enthusiastic, but if they do balk, it is when they first see the clothes. Pelletier will not accept refusal at this point.
« There's a lot of fabric they don't know about, like pants with stretch in them. You'll never know how comfortable it is unless you try it on. And then you'll say, 'Oh, I like that!' »
With the enforcement of this rule, Pelletier hasn't had a dissatisfied customer yet.
So, for their money, her clients save time, and end up with a coordinated wardrobe suited to their lifestyle.
She also keeps records, so when the client comes back to her six months later (as many have) she can expand on what they already own.
Pelletier has begun selling gift certificates, and has plans for a Web site, but she doesn't want to expand Les Effrontés too quickly. You get the impression that her life is kind of ideal right now. She spends her weeks shopping, and sitting in cafés with men. And she generally leaves them feeling better about themselves than when she found them.
« I like to go shopping, but it's nothing compared to seeing the guy feel very happy about himself, and when people notice that he has style, I'm happy about that. »


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