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Excel VB Convert sheet text to unicode chars

I need to enter a function in an excel sheet that converts all cells values, that are texts, to it Unicode values. For example I want ΓΌ to be ü and so on. How can I achieve this, is it ...
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What is the difference between Re-installing Microsoft Office on the same computer again vs. another PC?

Reinstalling my OS. Will I have any trouble reinstalling Office 2010 with the same key on the same PC? Is there a difference between installing it on a second PC vs. what I am doing? (does ...
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How to find Group Policy settings for related Microsoft Office options ?

I have been looking for a mapping between the options you see on the Office 2010 applications and the equivalents for setting through group policy but I have been unable to find something that is at ...
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Microsoft Word 2010 not spell checking some paragraphs / sections

Microsoft Word 2010 (Professional) is not spell checking some paragraphs for some reason but I would like it to do so. If I crtl a > under review tab, language, set proofing language dialogue box > ...
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is there any word add-in that can do this?

I'm looking for a word addin that can allow the user to create a triple list of words and associations and show a line under words or phrases that have matches in the list. For example, lets say I ...
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Resolving Chinese font differences on Mac and Windows versions of Office

My wife's office uses a certain standard Chinese font (Fang Zheng Kai Ti) for their documents, which is available with Office on Windows but not Mac (which has other similar-looking fonts, but nothing ...
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How to select radio buttons by cell value in Excel?

I have a group of radio buttons with labels in adjacent cells. How can I arrange for the radio button with the label matching a target cell value to activate? EDITED TO ADD Here's an equivalent ...
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Vermeer RPC on Office 2007

So I've been working on an application on Windows that hooks into the WebClient service and Office applications on one end, and SharePoint on the other end, to do some advanced compression and such. ...
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How do I find the version number in 'ribbon' versions of Excel?

How do I find the version number in 'ribbon' versions of Microsoft Office? The Help menu is gone, and menu Help/About had the version information in earlier versions of Microsoft Office.
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Disabled VBE command bars

While working with an Excel 2007 VBA addin (.xla), suddenly all the VBE command bars (Main menu, Edit, Debug , ..) have turned gray. I can no longer do things like insert files, block comment code, ...
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Windows 7 folder shortcut

I just noticed today that windows 7 folder shortcut manages to stay point to the folder even when the folder it points to changes location. Since when has this feature being available and what's done ...
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Is it possible to exclude an area from printing in Word 2010?

There is some content that is automatically populated in one of our Word document templates. I was wondering if it is possible to have this zone visible when looking at the document, but not have it ...
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excel cannot open the file xxx.xlsx' because the file format is not valid error

I have difficulty open opening word and excel files suddenly. Only particular office file give me the problem. These files were previously scanned by combo fix and I believe they were damaged. The ...
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MS Communicator 13.1.2 on Mac: kill annoying system unavailable dialogs?

I'm on a Mac in a Windows-centric corp (what's new, right?). Unfortunately, our IM tool is MS Communicator from MS Office 2011 for Mac. I'm on & off the corporate VPN, and whenever I go off, if ...
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Excel: Multiple =IF calculations within one cell

I need to do some text comparisons in excel, about 20-50 of them. I would like the result of these if statements to be within a single cell. Here is how I WISHED it would work: ...
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Excel Spreadsheet for Barcode Scanning

I've been asked by our warehouse guy to help him with an excel spreadsheet to increase his productivity. The problem is, I'm not what you would call an "excel expert". What he wants sounds very ...
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How to set the default page layout from RTL to LTR in Excel 2010?

Whenever I open an Excel spreadsheet, it is displayed in a right-to-left layout by default (i.e the right most column is A and I need to scroll to the left to reach further columns). I can change ...
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MS Office 2010 Word change character encoding

I have a document that is not written in English but in other European language and when I open it in MS Word 2010 there are several characters displayed not properly. How can I change the encoding of ...
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Russian fonts in an English Illustrator CS5

A problem software platform is the following system: Windows 7 Professional English MS Office 2010 Eng Adobe Illustrator CS5 Windows has a rather small set of fonts that come pre-configured out of ...
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Different views of the same text in Microsoft Office 2003 and ANDROID (2.2) OfficeSuite [closed]

I downloaded from "4 Shared" a text called "A_ARTE_DE_LER__-_MORTIMER_J_ADLER.doc". When I open this text in Word (Office 2003 - Windows XP) the text is in Portuguese. When I open the same text on ...
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Transfer Office Language Packs between different installations of Office

I have Microsoft Office installed in different languages on different systems. One version is English and the other one is German. The English version does not support spell checking of German ...
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Change data from columns to nested list

I need to move data from this format: node 1 node 12 node 121 node 1 node 12 node 122 node 1 node 13 To this one: node 1 node 12 node 121 node 122 node 13 Is there an ...
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Missing the MSOCache folder?

I am trying to manually delete Microsoft Office 2010 from my computer. I've been following this guide: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301/ and it tells me to go and locate the MSOCache folder in ...
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“Advance Properties” for Microsoft 2010

I have been trying to add the "Date Completed" in "Advanced Properties" for a Word document. I have selected "Date" as my "Type," put "1/10/12" and "January 10, 2012," hit "add," and it shows in the ...
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Microsoft Office 2010 Starter stop working

Recently my Office Starter 2010 stopped working and asked to be repaired, I do so but still is not working. Is there some way to uninstall and install Office Starter 2010? I searched on Google but ...
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How to change the numbering of image captions?

I have written a pretty long document in MS word and I have multiple image captions generated by the app. I have multiple level headers, and the numbering of captions is currently something like level ...
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How to disable irritating Office File Validation security alert?

I have Microsoft Office 2007 running on Windows 7. Yesterday I updated Office to the latest service pack, i.e. SP3. This morning, when opening an MS Word document (.doc format, and a document I ...
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How do I share a Quick Style Set I have created?

I have created a Quick Style Set in Word 2010 that I would like to share with colleagues. I have called this QSS OurReport. Another web site suggested the following For Windows 7, the folder should be ...
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Word 2010 - Can't set default style and normal.dotm changes do not appear to “stick”

I have Microsoft Word 2010 32-bit running on Windows 7 64-bit. Ultimately I want to eradicate extra spaces after a carriage return for any new blank documents. No method that I have tried so far ...
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Can't change text color in Microsoft Word 2010

I have Microsoft Office 2010 32-bit running on Windows 7 32-bit. When text is highlighted and a color is selected from the mini-toolbar or the ribbon, the text does not change color. If I change the ...
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How to print fold-marks on letters using Microsoft Word

Is it possible do make side lines (folding), that are independent from the text (no matter how you move your text up or down, the lines are on the same place when you print it) These lines are for my ...
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Mac Office 2008 database error during startup

After installing, and then uninstalling (it was a trial and I decided not to purchase) a copy of MS Office 2011 for Mac, my installation of MS Office 2008 for Mac is showing the attached problem ...
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Excel formula - querying a Range that results a Range

I have a Range in Excel (B3:C8) from which I want to filter out the English persons. In SQL this would be dead simple: SELECT Persons FROM [myTable] WHERE Nationality = 'English' How can I apply a ...
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“File in use” locked by “another user” - how can I know which user opened the file?

As an administrator I can watch all shared files and who opened it, but sometimes users complain they do not know who has it open because Office just says it's opened by "another user". Do you know ...
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Microsoft Word - Section break new line issue

I have come across a very annoying bug when I choose to insert section breaks in a document. In certain sections on the document if I press Enter to start a new line after the last character on the ...
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Office File Hyperlinks

So, we have some publishers in our department who have a passion for interlinking their MS Office documents (Word and Excel mainly) with relative hyperlinks. Then they publish them on our intranet ...
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Word: Resize Image by Percent - Macro

I routinely paste many screen captures into Microsoft Word 2007 and then have to manually resize them to around 75%, which becomes very tedious. The screen captures are all different sizes. I've ...
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Syncing 2 calendars to show both appointments

I use Outlook 2007. I have 2 calendars, one personal and one imported from my work. I have them overlaid on the calendar screen. On my mail screen I can see my to do list, but it only shows ...
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OneNote 2010 bullet indenting

In OneNote 2007, when you typed a dash and pressed space, you'd get a bulleted list. The same thing happens in 2010, except it indents the bullets over. I find this very annoying and have not been ...
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Tab key does not indent in Powerpoint 2010

I am having the same problem as this question here: Tab key in Microsoft Word does not increase indent in bullet lists. But the answer provided doesn't seem to work in Powerpoint 2010 anymore. This is ...
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Change All table cell margins in a word document

I am working on a very large word document that provides documentation for a software project I am developing. Somewhere along the line all of my tables lost the cell padding they had when I ...
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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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Force a program to use Excel Viewer instead of Excel

I am working on a Windows Thin PC build. This build is going to be used to access virtual apps. One of these applications is a somewhat crazy proprietary software. An option in this software is to ...
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Configuring WebDav and IIS to work properly together

I've tried configuring IIS + WebDav to be able to open an office document and have it synced with the server version. However a problem has arised, the first time I open a webdav located file it's ...
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Cannot launch every office 2007 product

I have not been able to launch any office 2007 product(with comprehensive patches) since last Friday. Each office product shows different behavior but none of them work. When I use Word it will ...
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Large Number, Abbreviated Formatting

Consider the following scenario. I have a data column that contains a large list of numeric, whole number values. Some of these values are comparatively small (i.e. 1,000) while others are very ...
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How can I insert a remote image into an email (without attaching it) using Outlook 2007?

I want to insert a jpg picture into an email without attaching it. It exists on the web, so I should be able to just link to it. This previous question has the answer for how to do it in Outlook ...
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Any way to move Office Starter To-Go to a non-flash drive?

Microsoft's Office Starter edition has an interesting option to create a portable version on a USB flash drive using the "Microsoft Office Starter To-Go Device Manager". This creates a portable ...
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Add custom reference style Microsoft Office 2010 Home & Student

I'm following this site to install a custom reference style on Office 2010. The problem is my version does not have the folder \Bibliography\Style where the site says it should be. Where do this ...
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Issue with formatting linked obect in Word 2010 - only shows 1 page of the source doc

I have a word doc with a table built into it. I am attempting to insert a source file as a linked object into a cell within the word doc table. Problem I am having is that the source doc is 3 pages ...

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