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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Microsoft Word: Text space automatically being introduced when inserting citations. How to stop this?
I am using MS-Word 2010 professional and trying to submit a document to my professor, and he requires citations to hug the text.
My problem:
The top-right red arrow points to me highlighting the ...
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How to search for literal asterisk in OneNote
I have a specific string which I need to search for in in onenote 2013.
The problem is that the string contains several asterisk *** characters. By default, OneNote treats * as a wildcard in searches, ...
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How to type mathematical accent in MS office suite?
For example if I want to insert $\bar{x}$, it is simply typing \bar{x} in LaTeX.
In Onenote and other MS office products, you first type Alt+= to enter the math environment, and after you type \bar, ...
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Error code:0x8007007B while activation of MS-Office Pro Plus 2010
One month ago, I have undergone a virus software attack leading to reset of my pc, all of my files were intact, just applications and features were removed. Then I installed Microsoft Office ...
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How to stop Office Outlook 2010 from butchering links in the emails that I send out?
At work we use Outlook 2010 for our emails:
Recently I faced an issue when I was trying to email a link to our partner that was chopped into pieces by Outlook's need to break text into paragraphs. ...
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Microsoft Office programs do not open following update
I've just turned on my laptop. I was using Word and Excel not one hour ago.
Now when I open any file (or either application directly) nothing happens. My computer doesn't crash or lag, but neither ...
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How can I force all Microsoft Office apps to the top on start?
Is there an easy way (i.e. group policy) to force all Microsoft Office apps (Word, Excel, PP, Outlook) to the top? I'm looking for something like the "Always on Top" option from Windows Task Manager. ...
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How to toggle spell checking quickly in Microsoft Word [duplicate]
It would help if there is a way to toggle the underlining on and off programmatically, assigning the command to a button to enable me to toggle with a single click.
It is a pain to go through the ...
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Microsoft Office 2010 keeps freezing after Windows 7 cloning
I clone Windows 7 installation with all programs together with Microsoft Office 2010. After applying image to new PC - all Office programs freeze after a few minutes of running and I have to force ...
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Code background from Visual Studio
I want to paste some code in my Word document from Visual Studio 2016, but the text has a white background. For readability I want to keep the formatting and the colors of the code.
When I try to ...
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Excel 2013 not starting properly
At our office we all work with Office 2013. Today one of our employees was unable to start Excel. It seems that the program does start, but only shows a very limited screen:
I am unable to minimize, ...
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Displaying multiple subpages in MS Office OneNote
Is there some way to set up the view in MicroSoft OneNote so that all of the subpages of a page can be displayed simultaneously on one page?
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Office 2016/O365 default file locations in GPO
I am currently in the process of rolling out 2016/365 and need to create a GPO so that the files are by default stored in the user's Documents folder. I am not able to locate the place to configure ...
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Power Point: How do I generate this character in mathcal?
(Mathcal is a font used in Latex https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Symbols:%5Cmathcal)
I have posted the question on Tex SE and it was closed
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/313269/how-to-use-...
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Microsoft Office VERY Slow Opening Files on Network Shares
I manage several computers running Windows 7 with Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Office 2013. Our users store and access many of the Microsoft Office files on a network share. For a typical file ...
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Indenting within tables Word 2010
I've seen quite a few questions on this, but the answers don't seem to work for me. Within Word 2010, I want to increase (or decrease) the indent of a bulleted list.
TAB of course doesn't work (It ...
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Can I change an O365 2013 office install to a retail license?
If I install a retail license of MS Office 2013 on a computer, anyone who logs into that computer can use the software correct?- just want to make sure MS hasn't made any changes to the basic retail ...
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How to copy multiple lines from MS word and paste them into Multiple lines in Excel?
I have a MS word file containing names and emails each name and email is in a separate line, I want to copy it into excel, is there any way that I can copy the whole page and have it pasted into ...
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How to Activate Visio/Office using live.account
I'm trying to use my live account license to activate Microsoft Visio on my Windows 7 desktop. I was able to install it; but I'm getting this friendly little message from Visio when attempting to ...
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Designing header in Word between horizontal lines
I am trying to design something like this in Word.
---------------------- MY TITLE ----------------------
The title would be centered, and the left and right lines would extend equally (...
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How to get evenly spaced letter slots for forms in Microsoft Word
I'm not sure how to describe this without a picture:
Is there a way to do this without drawing the lines manually? Preferably the lines will look as shown.
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How do you set crop mode exclusively in Office 2010/2013?
In PowerPoint 2010, when I click an image and choose Crop, I see crop handles and can move them in or out. However, the resize handles in the same place are also still active, so I sometimes wind up ...
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Microsoft Word 2016 no top spacing on pagebreak
When doing an pagebreak Word 2016 removes the top margin on the first paragraph. When doing an section break the margin is correct.
I first thought that I have some options enabled but there is no ...
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Visio: all text became covered with gray pattern
Suddenly all the text in all the documents (including any new document) looks like this:
But if I double-click it to edit, the text is indeed there:
I think it's some global Visio setting, but I ...
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Office installation won't open files downloaded from a browser
When I open an office file (I've tested Word / Excel) that I downloaded from a browser (chrome, ff, Edge), regardless of the source (gmail, dropbox web download) I get the following error:
This is ...
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Powerpoint 2010: Reapply last text color with keyboard / Default action with ribbon hotkeys
In Powerpoint 2010 one can click the text-color chooser to reapply the last color selected.
However, when navigating to it with the ribbon hotkeys – in the German version [Alt], R, F, B – the color-...
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How to restart slide numbering from 1 in new section in MS PowerPoint 2013?
I am using two sections in my presentation and I want slide numbering to restart after the end of 1st section and at the start of next section.
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Document font substitution (LibreOffice, MS Office)
In my office we're having this little delicate problem that a brand image group has decided some changes in our graphical profile. One thing this leads to is the change of document fonts from "Times ...
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Is it possible to work at the same time in Excel Online (Office 365) and in a local Excel file opened from OneDrive folder?
I'm trying to figure out how Microsoft does the syncing between Ofice Online and local One Drive files.
I've tried a couple of scenarios, and so far it seems it sync properly only if not opened ...
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How to use font substitution in Word Online and Office 365 in general?
I'm trying to make a Word template for my company and we use a custom font in our brand assets, it looks fine when the font is installed but when we send the files to our clients it looks pretty bad ...
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Powerpoint 2010: Master/Child documents
I want to edit my presentation in a more structured manner, so I am searching for a way to split the presentation into child documents. The solution should ideally allow
Editing subsets of the slides ...
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Is there an option to smooth those segmented lines in Visio 2013?
When I open a Visio 2007 Document or I create a new Document in Visio 2013 the Line-Curve Connector is shown as several segmented lines instead of real curve lines as was done in Visio 2003 - 2007. ...
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Office 2013 First Time Run video plays every time
I have a user running Office 2013 (32-bit) on Windows 7 Professional (SP1). Every time they open an Office application, they get shown the First Run video. Office is fully updated, and I have run a "...
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OneDrive for Business giving 'Credentials Needed' error
Since using OneDrive for Business (ODfB) client, I do encounter an unexpected behaviour that seems to be spread widely. However, available solutions did not help. Its triggers are not known to me ...
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Making Text Longer in Power Point
Does anyone know how to elongate or widen text in Microsoft Power Point? With pictures you can click on any of the re-sizing squares on the picture and do whatever you want. If you do that with the ...
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How to put name and registration number in a form
I'm creating a database which stores client related information, in which there are two tables:
A. Client registration
B. Work done.
So I have created 2 forms:
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Is there an English Office Language Interface Pack?
Located in France, I have only access to a French version of Excel and would like to change it to English for programming purposes. I want to use this model, based partly on Excel VBA code. Currently ...
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How to add a constant text to all headings in Office Word
In an effort to manually change my Office Word document to Latex, I would like to change all text with Heading style with a text containing the \section{heading}, in which heading is the actual text ...
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Office365 Users SSO for Atlassian and Slack
So we're currently using Office365 and we have just started to use the Atlassian product range and Slack. I want to try and have a central place for all my users and add / remove staff as when ...
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How do I select multiple attachments in Outlook 2016?
We have the Office 365 version of Outlook 2016. It does not seem to be possible to select multiple attachments by holding down the Ctrl or Shift keys and clicking on them. Only one attachment at a ...
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Quickly Changing/Picking/Selecting Cell Font In Excel
When I have a cell selected, or font within a cell highlighted and I want to change the font, I go up to Font dropdown list and scroll through to find my new font. this is slow and error-prone. ...
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Upgrading Office 2010 to 2016 - How to save settings and customizations?
We are about to upgrade from Office 2010 to 2016 (including Outlook). Our IT dept says this requires an uninstall of 2010 because of the way our license bundling works. My question is: how do I ...
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MS word 2016 square brackets in reference list - ISO 690
im trying to change format of reference list in MS Word 2016 so it will be like this
[1]. pplk. žen. Ing. Sameš, Antonín. Beton a jeho význam pro opevňovací stavby. Praha : autor neznámý, 1637.
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Disable all Microsoft Office macros globally for all users
Due to popular "locky" and similar malware out there I need to disable macros for all installed Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel...) globally for any user who logs in into a particular server ...
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Does Office 365 or Outlook support Google Apps feature "Reply from the same address the message was sent to"?
I've been using Google Apps for years.
Now I am thinking about switching to Outlook.com/Office 365. Note: I am not and won't be using Outlook for Windows.
The one feature I find invaluable with GMail ...
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Sending Word 2010 document as an attachment
We have Office 2010 installed. On most PCs, when one creates a document in Word and does a File → Save & Send as e-mail attachment it opens a new message in Outlook 2010 and adds the document ...
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How to tell Word "para." is an abbreviation and not the end of a sentence?
In Word 2013 on my system, the sentence He turned to pg. 2 and was surprised. spell-checks cleanly. However, the sentence He turned to para. 2 and was surprised. (changing pg. to para.) flags a ...
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word not showing all the picture
I have a pig picture that i want to insert vertically
I did that but not all the picture is shown, please look, you can see that the pic is not shown completely from the button (i hope you get me ...
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Copy and paste a shape containing UTF-8 text boxes from Office Word to Paint
In Microsoft Office 2010 I have a shape containing UTF-8 textboxes,
when I copy this shape and paste it into MS Paint or any other software, the encoding of texts changes to some vague characters
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Controlling formatting when importing data into excel spreadsheet
At my company, we use an electronic visitor sign-in/out system via an app titled Envoy. The data from the application can be exported to Excel from the admin interface on the host-site by clicking a ...
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