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A bug in Excel? Conditional formatting for marking duplicates also highlights unique value

If I let Excel highlight two duplicate values PT_INTERNAL2859736, then also unique value *736 gets highlighted. Why this happens and how can I stop highlighting the unique value as duplicate? I ...
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Outlook 2016 ctrl-arrow key navigation not working

I have a problem in the email-editor in Outlook 2016. Normally I can use ctrl-left arrow and ctrl-right arrow to move the cursor in the editor by a word. This works in every text field on my PC except ...
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Outlook 2013 not showing emails older than aprox. 6months old in any folders

I migrated a VP of our company to Office 365 and now he's not seeing emails in folders that there should be. The problem seems to affect all folders but only emails after about 6-12 months old. Other ...
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Downloading a local copy of One Note from Office 365 Online

I have a One Note notebook saved through Office 365 Online. I would like to download a local copy but am having trouble. I've tried going to One Drive and downloading it through there, but it ...
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What is this 14-digit time format from Windows registry?

Microsoft Office 365 saves information in the registry about what time it last searched/downloaded/applied updates in a format like this: Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\office\ClickToRun\...
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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 enter Username of IMAP Account in Outlook 2016

I want to add a new email account to Outlook 2016. I cannot find any input field where I can add a username. Obviously Outlook takes the email address as username - but this is not accepted by my ...
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How to disable "clutter" feature in office 365

I'm using office 365 for business. A couple of weeks ago I got an email introducing the new "clutter" feature with a "click here to configure" button saying that if I didn't do anything, the feature ...
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How do I view outlook 365 calendar in gmail calendar [closed]

There appear to be a thousand articles on how to view gmail calendars in outlook365, but I cannot seem to find any on doing the other way around. I want to see an outlook365 calendar (my workplace) ...
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How do you show a list of attendees in an Outlook 2013 calendar event?

A coworker recently enabled an extra view inside Outlook, so that when he opens up a meeting on his calendar he immediately sees a list of the people attending the meeting. How do you enable this in ...
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Mount SharePoint Online (Office 365) in Linux

We have started using SharePoint Online included with our Office 365 subscription. Our windows users can install software that automatically syncs the Shared Documents from SharePoint to their ...
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How to filter Outlook email using a Rule with a VBA script?

Certain things are not possible using the default e-mail rules like searching subjects or message bodies with wildcards. You can do multiple words but it's not the same if you need the words one ...
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Disable animations in office 365

Is there any way to disable the animations that Microsoft has enabled by default in office 365? It seems that ticking 'Turn off all unnecessary animations (when possible)' no longer does the trick. ...
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Access Office 365-directory using LDAP

My company runs internal e-mail-traffic using Outlook 365. I prefer using a proper e-mail client (in my case: thunderbird) via IMAP and SMTP, which is no problem since the server adresses are provided ...
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Is there a way around being required to use GoDaddy as the registrar when using a custom domain with Microsoft 365 Family?

I want to use my own domain with my Microsoft 365 Family plan, but there is no way I am transferring it to GoDaddy. Is there way way around this “requirement” or am I stuck?
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How can I uninstall skype for business?

I would like to keep "normal" Skype installed. I have seen many options for "disabling" it such that it doesn't start online, but is there any way to simply uninstall it completely? edit: thanks to ...
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Can IMAP clients read my contacts from Office 365?

I'm using a Mac. I'm using Postbox as my email client (which is actually Mozilla Thunderbird under the hood). I'm connecting to my email that is hosted in Office 365 via IMAP. Email works great. ...
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What Does the "Use this account everywhere on your device" Dialog Do?

The following dialog is displayed after entering credentials in Outlook for an Office 365 subscription with multi-factor authentication enabled: Use this account everywhere on your device ...
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How to compare two Excel files with Microsoft 365

As file conflicts can easily occur in the new and shiny world of SharePoint/OneDrive-based Excel 365 it is important to be able to compare different versions of a file. All info I found online talks ...
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Spurious 0.0000000000001 added to formula result

My wife and I have a spreadsheet to work out our finances at the beginning of each month and this month has a strange figure in cell F9. The formula in cell F9 is ="+ £"&-'Sue''s ...
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How to View Email Count for Office 365's Outlook Online

How to view email count for folders such as Inbox, Sent Items, & custom Folders created in Outlook online? The reason I say Outlook online is because another way to check for mail on Outlook is ...
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Import event from ics into Outlook

I use Outlook web client, https://outlook.office.com/calendar, opened in a web browser (Chrome on Linux). I have a .ics file containing details of an event. The ics file was attached to a received ...
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How to turn off Outlook asking for it to be application for mailto links? [duplicate]

Every time I open outlook.office.com in my browser on Windows 10, I get the message: I have to close that manually every time. How can I turn that message off permanently? And no, I don't want ...
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Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (SxS) using high CPU

There are long running threads of Office Click-to-Run using excessive CPU (ie 30% or more) continuously, as per this post. The solution in that thread works perfectly for Office 2016, however the ...
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Office 2016: Disallow sign-in to Office, but continue using Office 365 email in Outlook

My organization uses Office 365 and Office-365-associated email accounts. At work, we have the option to use Office 2016, 365, or the browser-based version of Office. All of this works swimmingly. At ...
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Outlook 365: Display full email address of senders and recipients within organization

Similar to this question about Outlook 2016, but for Outlook 365 (aka Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise). I have successfully used this formula to display the sender's email address if they are ...
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Downgrade from Office 365 to Office 2010

I need install an Office 2010 into a relative new laptop with Windows 10 (64 bits) with a basic Office 365 installed. When I try to install Office 2010 SP 2, I get this error: "There are no ...
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How to update the Table Of Contents in Word Online?

Is there a way to update the Table Of Contents of a document inside Word Online (Office 365)? The only solution I've found consists in clicking the button EDIT IN WORD to edit the online file with ...
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Default MS Word to single page view

Remember the good old days when MS Word defaulted to single page view when you'd open a document? I do. I prefer that, because I want to focus on what I'm working on, not what's 30 lines away from ...
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How do I install Visual Basic for Applications 2013 in Office 365?

I've recently taken out a subscription to Office 365 and have downloaded the desktop office programs. However, I'm trying to install an EPM excel addin and it's complaining that it needs "Microsoft ...
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Outlook rule to delete emails older than stipulated number of days

While setting mail rules, I want to be able to set them and forget them. But, I have an issue with one particular rule where I am using a before datespan rule. I have Before: ticked and specified a ...
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Windows 10 NTFS permissions for Azure AD account

I joined Windows 10 to Azure Active Directory and signed in with my Azure AD email address and password. whoami returns AzureAD\<Full Name> and the NTFS permissions of the user profile folder ...
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Outlook365 -- how to properly quote incoming email in response?

When I use the method below , and select 3 paragraphs and choose Quote, I get a response that includes the 3 paragraphs quoted. But I cannot figure out how to unquote my response under each paragraph. ...
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Is there a way to have an Office365 subscribed calendar show as busy for others

Are there any tools that allow you to subscribe to an ICS feed in Office 365, but in reality, SYNCHRONIZE that feed to a secondary O365 calendar? Use case: I've got my main calendar which I maintain....
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What is a quick way to write "dagger" sign in MS Word equation mode?

In MS Word equation mode with the Unicode converter, I write symbols by putting the "\" sign and then typing the specific Unicode, i.e., for the summation sign I write "\sum" and ...
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Configure Thunderbird to access Office 365 LDAP addressbook

I have already configured Thunderbird on Win10 to access my Office 365 account. Sending and receiving mail (via IMAP) works, and TB shows correctly the subscribed folders. Now I'd like to configure ...
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Word 365 / Word Online -- Insert Table of Contents disabled, how to insert a TOC?

I have headings at levels 1 and 2 in the document. How do I get a TOC?
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In Office 365 how do I get a direct download link for an Excel document stored in One Drive for Business?

My company uses Office 365 with OneDrive. I uploaded an Excel file there and shared via "guest link". Is it possible to generate a link which someone could use just to download the file without ...
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How to translate a full excel sheet to another language with the Microsoft Translator

Following the guide at Best Ways to Translate an Excel File - 2021 Update , clicking on the Microsoft Translator ribbon under "Review", I could not find the "insert" button to ...
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Find and Replace is not working

I was able to use "find and replace" to find out the specific text/number in excel sheet in the past. But recently the function is not working, look like... Alternately I need to copy+paste ...
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How do you "Edit As New" in Outlook Online?

I want to edit and send again a message that I sent with Outlook Online (in outlook.office.com, part of Office 365). This thread explains how to do it in Microsoft Outlook but the options in Outlook ...
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How to run PowerPoint off OneDrive in browser in loop?

I created a PowerPoint slideshow. I want it to run it on a TV screen that has a built-in web browser, auto-loop, and I also want users to be able to view it from their laptops. I currently can do ...
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How do I use (O365) Exchange Online custom attributes (1 to 15) when I have directory sync enabled and no exchange installed on-premises?

Here is my setup: Active Directory on premises - with no Exchange installed. DirSync tool to sync all users to Office 365 Now, I need to use CustomAttributes in Exchange - here is where the problems ...
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How do I send a recurring email on Outlook 365?

I'd like to schedule a recurring email to be sent every week from my Outlook 365 account, that will be sent even if I'm offline or don't user Outlook at the moment. Is there a way to do that?
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Outlook Notifications appear after a delay

I use Outlook 365. I like the fact that emails appear in Outlook Notifications (and I know how to turn them off if I wouldn't - see How to turn off Outlook Notifications?) However what irks me is ...
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Can't install "Skype for Business" with "Office Click-to-run" installer

My employer has Office 365, and I'm trying to install "Skype for Business" on my home computer (which already has office). When I try to download and install the software, I get the error message: We ...
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Outlook 2016: Multiple accounts, certificates only for one

This question has ben asked before but yet never answered. I have set up my Outlook 2016 with three different Mail accounts: [email protected] (commertial, office365) [email protected] (personal, ...
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How do I keep my installed Office when 365 expires?

Similar question here but that doesn't address the fact that I have a valid key. 4 years ago I purchased Office University 2010 and it included a free upgrade to Office 365 when it became available ...
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How can I link my Lightning (Thunderbird) and my Office365 calendars?

My organization has recently started using Office365. I hooked up to it for email, using IMAP and SMTP, no problem (except that it's slow). Now I want to have my Lightning calendar linked to it as ...
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Teams: "We couldn't sign you in. Please try again." in loop

I'm currently setting up my work system and totally lost at getting Microsoft Teams running. Other Microsoft Office products (like Excel, Office, Word) are working seamlessly for both native and web ...
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