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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Powershell: kill one window of a subset running under one process?

Using powershell can I kill/force close a single window (excel workbook) running under Excel without killing the whole process which closes all excel workbooks running under that same process instance? I can search for processes named Excel, and…
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I have a corrupted MS Access database

I have a corrupted MS Access database. I am not able to open it anymore. However it contains important data. What can I do to recover the data?
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File Lock on Windows Server

I have a shared excel file stored on a server that continually results in "This file is locked by "another user". Do you want to open as read-only?". This is on a Windows 2003 R2 Server and has had all the relevant patches and updates applied. Most…
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Excel spreadsheets posted to Intranet are sometimes being opened as web pages

We have a script that collates data from a couple databases and generates some Excel spreadsheets (with a *.xls extension) on the web server based on this data. The sheets themselves are a mix of XML and HTML as per some article I can't seem to…
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Outlook 2013 (connected to imap accounts) with mandatory profiles on Server 2012R2 RDS

Windows 2012R2 RDS and Outlook 2013. Mandatory Profiles with folder redirection to users Homefolders. Anyone have any ideas on using outlook (connected to imap mail accounts) with mandatory profiles. I have a group policy to point the data file to…
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How do i point emails to Office 365 and Exchange at the same time?

in the near future i will be moving a company that we support to office 365. They are currently on Exchange 2003. I will be saving each users emails to pst from their current mailboxes, then adding the 365 account to outlook and importing the pst…
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Exchange 2010 to Office 365 Migration

We're looking to migrate all of our mailboxes etc onto Office 365 from Exchange 2010. We aim to still primarily use our local Exchange 2010 setup however, the office 365 setup will act as a 'live backup'. This meaning, if our local exchange 2010…
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Outlook 2003 can't send email outside of domain?

Okay, once again I’m baffled with an issue that I’m hoping one of you can help me solve. Here’s the deal… Configuration: Microsoft Office XP (Outlook 2003) on a Windows XP (SP3) system connected to a POP3 email host. Symptom: Sending an email to…
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Server Fileshare Office Documents Read Only until Closing and Reopening

Have a customer that has a strange issue with Microsoft Office Documents on their file server. It does not happen every time they open an office file but it is pretty consistent. They get a read only message when they open the document the first…
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Office 365 E3 with Exchange Hosted Encryption (EHE)

I have a client who wants to move to Office 365. They are currently running on a trial of Office 365 E3 plan. My staff are now also using Office 365 E3 via the internal use licenses provided as part of the MS Cloud Partner benefits. We've search…
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Losing Word 2003 files on network disconnection

In my org, we have a central shared network drive, mapped on startup to G:. People generally edit their Word documents directly on this network drive. The problem is, when the drive becomes unavailable (network issues/ server issues etc.), Word…
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Installing 32-bit Access 2007 on a Terminal Server that already has 64-bit Office 2010 installed on it?

The users at my organization connect to a Terminal Server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. They use Outlook 2010 on their profiles when they log in, and for this reason 64-bit Office 2010 has been installed, probably using that Control…
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Office 2010 OCT Outlook Filepaths

I'm playing around with customizing Office 2010 installs on my network, normally I just do a full manual install, but as the environment grows and the lazier I get its becoming a pain to do it manually every time. I've read up and downloaded the…
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Open a file with different programs based on user groups/permissions?

On our citrix server we are going to be publishing several folders with office files for remote offices. A small number of our users need to be able to edit the files, and we have office licenses for them. For the rest of our users, they only need…
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Does Office 2003 represent a security risk on a managed environment, due to end of mainstream support?

With the end of mainstream support for Office 2003, it's tempting to retire Office 2003 from a managed network altogether (and replace with Office 2007, in our environment), but there are pockets of resistance (e.g. users who contractually share…
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