Questions tagged [microsoft-office]

A productivity suite from Microsoft, for which about every 3 years a new major release becomes available, like in 2003, 2007, 20010, and 2013. It can only be run on Windows computers.

A productivity suite from Microsoft, for which about every 3 years a new major release becomes available, like in 2003, 2007, 20010, and 2013. It can only be run on Windows computers.

MS Office is made available in several distinct editions aimed towards different markets. All traditional editions of MS Office contain the core applications:

More advanced editions contain applications such as:

For more details on MS Office, refer to http://products.office.com

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Any way to overwrite (not merge) Outlook contacts when importing from a file?

I'm trying to create a contact list for Outlook 2010 that will contain contact information for every person in my company. I intend on keeping the list current, which means I will be manually adding new employees to the contact list, and removing…
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HTTP 400: No Host matches server name for MS Office files on Apache Server

Background We just migrated our website to a new server. Both the old and the new servers run/ran CentOS 5.5 and Apache 1.3.33. However, after the migration we have not been able to download any files from the Microsoft Office family of products…
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Office 2010 documents via Windows 7 symlinks on network share very slow in comparison to network path access

Client: Windows 7 Premium, Office 2010 Pro Plus, both fully patched. Server: Samba 3.5.10 on CentOS6 (SELinux enabled), Shadow copies enabled. Link speed: 1MBps. As Windows 7 doesn't like me to use a network folder as a "Library" without making it…
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Office 2011 mac / Exchange contacts

We have Exchange 2010 SP2 running in our environment and a whole bunch of Mac office 2011 users. Recently, we had a new hire start and two of the mac office 2011 users (OSX Lion) noticed he's not showing up when they search for him in the global…
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Exporting to pdf from microsoft office word

As many of you might know Microsoft office (2003 at least) does not support exporting pdf's nativity, What good software is there out there that can easily export a word document into a pdf format.
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Turn off spelling check and thesaurus on Word 2008

We have students taking a governmental exam using Word 2008 on Mac OS X 10.5. Some administrators feel that they should not be able to use spellchecking or the thesaurus (and, presamably, grammar checking, as well). There are instructions to turn…
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Microsoft Office and Sharepoint authentication

I'm evaluating the ability of SharePoint to meet the document management needs of my team. I'm running into some issues that make it feel very "clumsy," and believe it may be due to an incorrect configuration. In general, whenever I open a Word…
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Cannot find Registry Setting for Office Shared Templates

We have our Templates for Office 2003 located in a shared location \servername\Templates$ This is also the location of our Word Startup Folder. Both settings are set in a User Group Policy. This has been working for Word forever. Now we have a…
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Publisher 2007 Hangs on Microsoft Terminal Server 2003 Enterprise

I have looked many places for the answer to this question and server fault looks like a great place to look some more. We run in an environment which is completely thin-client to fat-server setup. All applications for all users are run on our…
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Configure IE to use MS Word Viewer as .doc viewer on Citrix server with Office installed

We have a small number of citrix servers that all have office installed. Only a small subset of users have access to office. Everyone is set to open office documents with the free viewers on the Citrix servers. We control access to office through…
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How to use Group Policy force Office 2007 to save in Office 2003 format?

We have a few newer machines running Office 2007, but most of our users are still on Office 2003 (or even older versions) and I've had complaints from those users about receiving documents they can't open. I've been other places that use Group…
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Why should we take a backup of Office 365?

What is the need to take a backup of the Office 365 account? Microsoft is quite famous and provides multiple unique features then why take a backup of Office 365 to PST?
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All office apps crash immediately on server 2008

I have a brand new windows 2008 server (64 bit) with a brand new installation of Office 2007, fully patched with all windows updates etc. Every time I try to run any of the office apps it crashes immediately, even in safe mode. the only remotely…
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Can Windows Server be a KMS client to AWS, but also a host for Office clients?

I want to use a micro Windows Server instance on Amazon as a KMS host for Microsoft Office. The Windows Server instance is already set up as a KMS client getting its keys from Amazon for WS 2012. Is it possible to still have it get its activation…
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The optimal setup for Remote Desktop Access for Windows Server with MS office for multiply users

I need to setup Remote Desktop Access for multiply users (up to 10 users) with MS Office accessible for all users. I already have: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Licence (1 License) Microsoft Win Rmt Dskt Svcs CAL 2008 (10 Licenses) Microsoft…