Questions tagged [microsoft-office]
Application suite from Microsoft which includes always Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Depending on what edition of Microsoft Office you have you can also have OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access.
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How do I change the language of all Powerpoint slides at once?
I want to change the proofing language of all my slides in a Powerpoint. I've tried setting the language via the Language Preferences menu, however this only changes it for new powerpoints.
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Disable Microsoft Office Upload Center
With Microsoft Office 2013 and 2016, Microsoft Office Upload Center runs automatically and shows up in the system tray. I don't use it and want stop it from running.
How can I remove that program ...
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How do I get rid of all caps ribbon titles in Office 2013?
Installed Office 2013 on Windows 8 today. It's great, except for one thing, the all caps ribbon titles are inconsistent with the title case titles everywhere else in Windows 8. Is there a registry ...
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Can I delete MSOCache?
I need more space on my SSD drive and I found that MSOCache is occupying 1.3 GB. I have Microsoft Office 2010 installed.
Can I safely delete MSOCache?
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Turn off Microsoft apps 'Microsoft AutoUpdate' app on a Mac
Microsoft used to just do a system notification you could easily disable. Now they launch the Microsoft AutoUpdate program process once per day.
This interrupts whatever you are doing to put the focus ...
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Excel Conditional Formatting Escaping a Question Mark
I would like to use a conditional formatting rule in an excel file that would color any box with a question mark in it red. It seems that Excel is using a question mark as a wild card and will turn ...
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Export PowerPoint to PDF with each animation on a separate slide
I have a PowerPoint presentation where I extensively use simple animations, only appear/disappear effects triggered by the mouse (not time based), without any smooth transitions.
Is it possible to ...
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What is the maximum allowed rows in a Microsoft Excel .xls or .xlsx
Is there a limit? I couldn't find one posted.
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Outlook does not show desktop notifications on a message receive if e-mail is transfered to another folder with a rule
I have a number of accounts in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, a folder for each and a rule which moves message for appropriate folder. Also it has to show a desktop notification.
But it doesn't!
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How to force the Outlook rule to be server-side?
Using Outlook 2010 with a corporate Exchange Server.
The rule I want to create is this:
After rule arrives from [email protected]
and with Passed in the subject
Move it to the SuccessBuilds ...
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Keeping a whole table on one page
I have a MS Word 2010 document with many small tables. I would like to prevent those tables from breaking up over pages. I know it is possible to prevent a single row to break up. But I would like the ...
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Tab key in Microsoft Word does not increase indent in bullet lists
I create a bullet list, of any type and after pressing Enter then Tab instead of increasing the indent it just injected white-space.
I'm using the default template (.dot), there's been no changes to ...
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How do you customize Excel 2010 keyboard shortcuts?
How do you customize Excel 2010 keyboard shortcuts? This article from microsoft.com provides instructions for "Microsoft Office 2010" but seems only apply to Word, not Excel.
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Where is a database shape in Visio?
I am trying to document an architecture in Visio, and I can't find a shape for a database. I see servers, clients, etc. - but no database.
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What type of file is ~$file?
When I had opened msoffice file that I had previously saved on my desktop, I saw another kind of file named ~$doc. What type of file is this ?
I have marked both the files.
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Stop the Research Pane appearing in Microsoft Office
How can I stop the Research Pane from appearing in Microsoft Office, for example when I am holding Alt and click somewhere in an email in Outlook?
This is unintentional and typically happens when I ...
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Is it possible to assign a specific style to all cross-references in Word 2007?
Nothing more to add, I would like to change the style of all cross-references I have in a Word 2007 document at once. But I have no idea how to do it. How can this be done?
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Microsoft Office alternative for Windows? [closed]
Is there something similar to Office for Windows but free? I am student living on a budget, Office is not an option at the moment.
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Office Word. How to open the same document in separate windows?
How to open the same document in separate windows in Microsoft Office Word? One solution would be to rename it, but is there other better solution?
It is the equivalent of my previous question which ...
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Microsoft Office document is "locked for editing by 'another user'"
A few of my users are in and out of various Excel 2007 spreadsheets all day. One of them reports that "50% of the time" she tries to open a spreadsheet from the file server, an information message ...
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How can I use custom colours in the Microsoft VBA editor?
I'm working on a few projects for work using Excel and VBA, so I have no choice but to use the Microsoft Visual Basic editor. I normally wouldn't mind, but I can't figure out how to set a custom ...
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"Security" Issue: Retained Cropped Screenshots
I made the worrying discovery today that after cropping a screenshot in Word, PowerPoint, and probably other Microsoft Office programs, the rest of the cropped screenshot is retained. This has made me ...
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How to write subscripts in Microsoft Office formulas
I have to write equations that have a lot of subscripts. What is the shortcut key in Microsoft Office to write subscripts in equations?
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Get Table of contents to include "title" style
I know Word automatically generates a table of contents using heading levels 1 and 2.
I was wondering if it was possible to make Word include the Title formatting also?
I am using both Word 2010 ...
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Disabling auto-hiding of vertical scrollbar in Word 2013
I'm wondering whether there is any option/control to disable the automatic hiding (fade-out effect) of vertical scrollbar that happens after few seconds of mouse inactivity in Microsoft Word 2013?
I ...
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How to uninstall Microsoft AutoUpdate on macOS?
I deleted the Office suite from my MacBook, but I receive notifications from Microsoft AutoUpdate that there are software updates. How can it be if I deleted Office? How to uninstall Microsoft ...
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How can I make Word print a one-page document multiple times on one single sheet?
Office 2007 and 2010 have a setting in the print dialog that allows you to print multiple pages per sheet:
However, when I try to print 4 copies of a single page with 4 pages per sheet, I get 4 pages ...
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What the heck have I done to my Excel sheet (and how to undo it)?
I have a lot of Excel sheets for all sorts of things - but none has ever acted up like this one here:
This used to be a totally normal Excel 2007 sheet which I was able to resize, maximize etc. - but ...
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Turn off auto complete /auto correct on Lync on Mac
We use Microsoft Lync as the chat application in my work place. Recently we migrated to using macs and I am seeing this problem which i didn't see on the windows version of lync which was the auto ...
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"Incompatible Office products are installed on your machine" when opening Office documents or browsing OneDrive or SharePoint Site
I'm running Office 2013 Pro Plus 32-bit (MSI-based) on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. When trying to open an Excel, Word, or PowerPoint documents I get this error message:
Sorry, we can't perform this ...
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How to insert empty rows in Excel when I have copied rows in my clipboard?
This seems like something which should be painfully simple to do but I can't figure it out. So with an empty clipboard I can right click on a row header and say insert row, no problem, it inserts a ...
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How to convert Excel file with multiple sheets to a set of CSV files?
I have an Excel file with 20 sheets on it. Is there a way to quickly convert the file into 20 CSV files - one for each sheet?
I can do it manually of course, but I'll have to be processing these ...
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Setting up a column of "enum"-fields in Excel
I'd like to setup a column in excel with several fixed possible values (like 'in-progress', 'done', 'canceled').
I'd like to set it up so the only possible values in these column are from the fixed ...
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Uninstall individual Office 2016 programs
I installed Office Professional Plus 2016 on my windows 10 system. When I installed it, it didn't give me an option of which office programs to install, like it did in the 2010 version (ex. word, ...
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Disable Autocorrect for a certain style sheet
Is it possible to disable auto correct (such as fixing capitalization) for a specific style template only? I'm interested in a solution for Word 2013.
This is specifically for auto correct, ...
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Console window keeps popping up
I keep seeing a console window pop up for a fraction of a second every couple of hours. Seems random, I can't pin it to any one particular event. Is there any way I can trap the window and see what it'...
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What is this partial box with angled arrow icon called?
Does this icon have a specific name?
It is formed of a vertical line on the left and a horizontal line along the top, and then an arrow at 45° pointing towards the bottom right - a horizontally ...
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How to remove table in MS Word while retaining the text inside of it
Is it possible to remove table in MS Word, while retaining the text inside of it? I'm using Word 2010.
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Change default slide layout in Powerpoint
How can I change the default layout for a new slide in Powerpoint?
When I go to View -> Slide Master, I can edit and add new layouts (sometimes I can also delete a layout, but not always, which is ...
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How to open Office 365 documents in "Viewing" mode by default?
Is there a way to open Word, Excel, or Powerpoint documents in 'Viewing' mode by default? This option seems to be in online apps only and working in the context of Microsoft Teams (i.e. part of an ...
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How to open doc, ppt, or xls files with Google Drive with double clicks from my desktop?
Google Docs is handy for editing documents online, and can serve as a complete MS Office alternative.
However if you don't have MS Office installed you can't view those files without right click it ...
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How do I add VBA in MS Office?
I've seen posts showing answers which use VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) code/macros, however, I've also noted additional comments afterwards about how to use the VBA (how to implement and ...
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Automatically resize picture/image in Word?
I'm using Microsoft Word 2007. I have several large screenshots that need to be inserted into the document at various places. When I paste the pictures, I have to manually resize them to fit within ...
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How to place a shape on top of another shape in Visio 2010?
Okay this is driving me nuts. I'm using Visio 2010 in a completely blank template. Here is what I'm doing:
I'm drawing a simple rectangle
I draw a second simple rectangle
I'm trying to drag ...
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Undo send email in Outlook
Is there an equivalent of Undo Sent Gmail feature in Microsoft Outlook?
I believe that once that feature is enabled in Gmail the sending of email is postponed by 5 to 30 seconds (depending on settings)...
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How to stop Microsoft Office apps ignoring click on unfocused window
Microsoft Office applications on Windows behave like Mac OS - if a window does not have input focus, then clicking one of its buttons only focuses the window and you have to click again to activate ...
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How do I disable specific windows 10/Office Keyboard Shortcut (CTRL+SHIFT+WIN+ALT+D)
it seems that Office has decided to hi-jack the keyboard shortcut CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+WIN+D.
That might not seem like a problem, but I have assigned that keyboard shortcut in AutoHotKey and have been ...
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How to get multi-row sort/filtering headers in excel
I have a spreadsheet which uses 2 rows for header information. Filtering by selecting a column is implicitly assuming only 1 row of header information. Sorting has a header row checkbox but that ...
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How to change office shortcuts?
My office is not in English, so to save the document the shortcut is Ctrl B.
For me this should be bold, how can I change the mappings to the same as the English version? Is there a file I can ...
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disable spell check when sending code in Outlook
Sometimes I send code (or stack traces) via email (Outlook) and it's very annoying to see the red spell check squigglies. What's the best way to deal with this?
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