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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 can I edit the fields of a heading/outline level in MS Word?

I have a document in Word organized with multi-level outlines, using the default headings styles. When I create a Table of Contents, it creates an hyperlink to those headings/outlines, but it usually ...
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Office how to create a custom shape with an adjustable yellow point?

I've seen that it is possible to draw custom shapes in Word or PowerPoint and copy paste them and use them between the programs. Now in the point editor there is no option to make a point adjustable. ...
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Is there a way to identify Microsoft Office temporary files from their properties in OS X?

When we open a Microsoft Office spreadsheet or document, generally a temporary file with the name starting with "~$" is created near the main file. Is there any way to distinguish these files based ...
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macOS Excel missing fonts warning

I keep getting this warning in macOS Excel: "We were unable to load all your fonts. Some fonts may be missing". I tried solutions in Microsoft support doc but nothing work.
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Accepted meetings do not show up on my outlook calender

I have been observing a weird behavior from my MS-Outlook on mac. What I am seeing is that the meeting invitations that I get and accept, do not show up on my Mac Outlook calendar. Now the fact that ...
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mailto registry association key?

I'm banging my head against a brick wall trying to define mailto association to Outlook 2016 for our domain. (2012r2 and win10 1903) Regardless of what I try, deploying a .xml file that was generated ...
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How to insert two tables side by side in Word?

I want to insert two tables side by side on a single page. The tables are pretty large, 46 rows by 4 columns. I created them in Excel, but found that they can't be imported directly and have to be ...
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Excel/Word losing pinned files - registry fix but why happening

I regularly lose my pinned files list in Excel, and have not identified a common cause. On reading into this, I find that pinned files are stored in Registry under ....\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\...
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Office 2019 - installation error message

I've tried installing Office 2019 Professional Plus and am getting an error. I have used the Microsoft support and recovery assistant for office 365 to remove any trace of previously installed ...
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File Explorer hangs when viewing MS Office files with Details Pane open

So, I have recently come across this issue, where selecting any MS Office files (.doc, .docx, .xlsx, etc) while the Details Pane is open will cause the Windows Explorer process to hang. I have: ...
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Outlook: Any way to make folders that contain unread emails more obvious? (the folder tree in the panel on the left)

Here's a screenshot of my folder tree in Thunderbird: Thunderbird folder tree: Using some CSS, I was able to make folders that contain unread messages very obvious. Whereas in Outlook you can ...
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Outlook 365 Inbox does not sync unless restarted or manually pressing "Update Folder" in the send/receive tab

Outlook 365 inbox does not sync (i.e. does not show new emails) unless it is restarted or I manually press the "update folder" button in the send/receive tab. I already tried the followings but could ...
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Microsoft Word 2016 gives security notice when pasting images into documents

I use Microsoft Word Professional Plus 2016. Microsoft overnight updated Microsoft word and, each time I paste in a new picture into my documents, I get this message: How do I stop this from ...
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How can I ensure connections to office 365 are using tls1.2 only?

In attempting to tweak settings so that a computer and/or an application uses only tls1.2, I find myself relying on a Microsoft provided report that is not all that real-time. The report I am pulling ...
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Microsoft Office pinned docs list vs Windows 10 jump list

In MS Office (2013), the "recent file list" in the Open dialog allows users to pin and un-pin files and delete files from the list. In the Windows "jump list" (right-click on button for app in Taskbar)...
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Excel INDEX MATCH across 2 sheets & Update data with VBA

I would like some help with the following tasks. I will in the future add an additional sheet with 3 columns. A would be a date, B a Wo number and C would be the date which the Wo was closed by ...
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How does Office 2013's document locking work?

I've run into a couple of problems with files being locked/unlocked in Office 2013 in my company. documents (Word/Excel files, mostly) are getting unlocked if not regularly saved. A user has a server ...
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Windows cannot find the path to Office install folder. How can I solve this?

I bought today MS Office and tried to install it. After 10 Minutes the install was finished but, to my surprise, I could not open any of the products I just bought. The error message I got was: ...
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Removing Hidden Fonts in Powerpoint

Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit/Powerpoint Office 16 Hello all, I am creating a presentation that should be edited by others, therefore I am embedding the fonts I am using. I started from a third-party ...
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MS Word to Powerpoint and back

We have to create documents in MS-Word, the contents of which are converted to PowerPoint on a regular basis. There are typically dozens of of slides in the PPTX files, and sometimes the number is ...
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Windows Search Protocol Host Error Message

My operating system is Windows 10 Home version 1803 and I keep getting the following error message: The operating system is not configured to run this application On investigation using the ...
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MS Word confuses captions and cross-references

A common error I find with MS Word is that for long documents it mistakenly changes cross-references into the ENTIRE caption the cross-reference relates to. How can this be avoided? An recurring ...
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How to uninstall Skype for Business from Microsoft 365 package?

I installed on my computer Microsoft 365 Pro package for students (https://products.office.com/pl-pl/student/office-in-education). With this package in addition to Word, PowerPoint etc. Skype for ...
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Outlook 365: Rule to check if a specific user is missing (and then forward the email to them)

I need some help with Outlook rules: Problem: Users are not attaching all invested parties to communications regarding certain topics. Example: User has problem and contacts Engineer X. Engineer Y is ...
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Powerpoint - Open PPTM (macro enabled) File on Startup

I have a PowerPoint presentation with a macro. I would like PowerPoint to open on startup the following to files. Blank.pptm (My custom PPT file with macro) Blank.pptx (Default PPT file) (Optional) (...
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Excel online keeps changing my date

So here is the problem, when I typed 08/03/2018 it changes automatically to 03/08/2018. Why? I set the number format for the whole column to date (Indonesian) dd/mm/yyyy. Any help would be ...
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Wrong user in "File is locked for editing by another user"

We use CIFS shares to store data including Microsoft Office files. If user tries to open Microsoft Office file which is already opened by another user, there is a message Filename is locked for ...
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Lost Word Document

I'm not sure if anyone can help with this but I've been typing like mad all day in Word (office for Mac 2016) and I have been saving the document regularly, like every 15-20 minutes because I have ...
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"Open Recent" menu empty on Microsoft Office 2019 apps for Mac?

On my older machine (High Sierra MacBook Pro, MS Office 2011), apps Excel and Word show a list of recently opened files under Menubar / File / Open Recent. The filenames are then followed by "More…" ...
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Why can't Microsoft store version of Office access redirected folders? [duplicate]

Our client has two computers that had preinstalled Office 365 from the MS store and I believe they are OEM licences for MSO '16 H&B. The computers were not syncing with group policy because ...
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Cant get Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 to activate

Ive got a Mac Mini that has had 2 new hard drives in its c. 4 year life, due to upgrading require storage form 500GB to 1TB to 2TB. Each time i put a new HD i clone the contents from the old HD ...
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Outlook 2016 and Exchange 2016: Cannot open Outlook Window - Various Errors

We have a brand new setup of Exchange 2016 and Outlook 2016 (or in my case, Office 365 version of Outlook 2016 client). The computer is a Windows 10 system, and is joined to our 'new' domain that we'...
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How to stop office 365 word from converting pdf from graphic to text?

I'm using word from the windows store and it keeps converting all my pdf graphs into text. How to stop it from using ORC and just show up the pdf as graphs?
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How do I use google fonts reliably with Mac version of Office 365 Word?

I would like to use some google fonts with an Office 365 Word document. I have a Mac OS version of Office 365. I understand the usual method is to set an option to embed font files when you save the ...
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Change the highlight color in multiple places at once

I have a set of places within a document file, which I would like to keep highlighted, but I do not want this feature to appear while printing. I am interested in a convenient way which would enable ...
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Office 365 word in outline view has started truncating long lines and adding at ellipsis, instead of wrapping around

This had been working ok. Originally, I set this: Option > Advanced > Show doc content > Show text wrapped within the doc window And it worked ok. A couple days ago, it stopped wrapping long lines,...
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Microsoft Word insert new equation shows a sort of blue bracklet box

Everytime I insert a new equation, it appears between two weirdd bluish box schaped bracklets with gray font color. It started a few days ago and I never had this before. I thought a computer reboot ...
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MS Word 2010 - footnotes in heading styles showing up in header references when converted to PDF

Headings in Word that have a footnote in them are resulting in numbers followed by "F" in my headers when I convert to PDF. The headers were created using a styleRef cross-reference. Have tried ...
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Microsoft Access - Could not find file error, when opening database

This issue is specific to a single computer and a specific file, in a specific shared directory. The file cannot be opened, in its current directory, by any user, from this one machine. The file can ...
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"Printer not ready" in Outlook (Office)

I have a customer with a few clients. Most of them have the following problem: If you try to print from Outlook (and for some of them Word too) you get an error "Printer not Ready". It is with (...
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How does one stop C-Cleaner from deleting the lists of Recent MS-Office files (WIN7, Office 2010, C-Clnr

Using C-Cleaner* under WIN7, I find it always deletes the lists of MS-Office 2010 "Recent files" ("Files" tab; Recent, enabling quick reopening of recently used files). As a result, it is tedious to ...
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Word 365 (online version) -- where is the document revision history (like google docs has?)

I found this article, but when I have the doc open in Word 365, there is no clock button to be seen, and the File | Info area does not seem to have an option for the version history. The file is ...
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How to print a wider comment pane for MS Word?

I have a MS Word 2007 document with some fairly lengthy comment balloons and have adjusted the preferred width of the balloons to 4" (after consulting this question). The section margins are 1" (L/R) ...
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Narrow down width in weblayout view in MS Word

when I write texts for my website I like to use the weblayout view in MS Word. However, the text expands over the complete width of the screen. If I could narrow it down so that it only expands as ...
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How can I turn Word 2016 hypenation ON?

This question is a question that asks how to turn hyphenation ON, and the comment and downvoted answer both say, "Here's what you need to do to turn hyphenation OFF." What I've gathered is that ...
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Access 2016 parameter issues

I have a database of products. One of the tables is a supplier history listing who we have purchased each product from and when. Suddenly the table for supplier history is asking me for parameters. I'...
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OneDrive: "We can't sign you in" - Cannot resolve with cryptic error about browser cookies

Seeing an odd issue on a workstation's OneDrive installation. Getting the following error after attempting to enter the email for login: As you can see, it suggest that the browser is set to block ...
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Microsoft Publisher 2016 Lacks [x of y] page numbering - How to achieve this?

Simply put, our office has been using MS Word for their training documentation. As I began inserting a large number of photos, this caused Word's formatting to break in the most frustrating ways ...
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Tracked changes

I know and understand all (except one) of the points on https://logological.org/word giving reasons why we shouldn't use Microsoft Word documents as a portable way of sending files. The only one that ...
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Windows open office combining formulas

I'm using this formula =Match(b8;'sheet2'.b1:b100;0) Let's say it will give a result of 52 Then I want it to show the value of sheet2.g52, or maybe use it in vlookup like this =Vlookup(b8;'sheet2'....
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