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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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How can I remotely/administratively confirm if an Outlook add-in is deployed and enabled on user systems?

I have an Outlook COM add-in / Exchange Client Extension that is installed on user desktops. Occasionally over-zealous security measures on Office can disable this add-in. Is there a way I can remote check to confirm if the add-in is installed and…
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block users from retrieving office installation key

I am about to give active directory domain users access to a Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Server. The server has Office 2010 installed. Is it possible for the users to retrieve the installation/product key of Office? If so, what is the best way to…
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Windows 7 Benchmarking Tools That Drive Microsoft Office Applications

Are there any benchmarking tools that can actually drive MS Office applications in Windows 7 rather than just running various synthetic loads? I'm looking to measure the impact on user experience (i.e. response time) of various system configurations…
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Remove Excel Add-In program installed by user from other windows account

I developed an add-in for excel and the first version I send an email with the .exe file to users install (The system center was not working at that moment). Now I need to uninstall the add-in (from system center). But the first installation has…
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How to apply IE SSL MS Office document fix to entire web server?

I've several areas on my web application where the user is allowed to download Microsoft Office documents. I need to apply the fix listed here Web sites that want to allow this type of operation should remove the no-cache header or headers. How…
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How to Install Office 2007 Enterprise onto Server 2008 R2 Terminal Server

Can you tell me how to get an Office 2007 Enterprise VLK program to work in terminal services? I keep getting an error that says This copy of Office cannot be used on terminal server. I can't figure out what I'm missing
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Viewing MS Office document properties from command line?

I'm looking for a way to view the properties (title, author, company, etc.) of Office documents from the command line, hopefully both the standard and custom ones. Does such a utility exist? (My intention is to write a script which lists the files…
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Word 2003 add-in limitations

Are there known limitation to the numbers or size of add-ins in Word? At the moment, if I do Application.COMAddIns.Count in a copy of Word, I get 4, one of which I wrote and the other three are WordOptimisingAddin iManage Word2000 integration (Ver…
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How can I stop the OpenFileDialog in Office from displaying my Network computers?

We have a Windows Server 2008 running Terminal Services. Users typically use the Drop Down menu at the top of the dialog to select a location to open/save their file. The problem is that by default the DropDown expands the first level item under…
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Free alternatives to Windows and MS Office for basic office work

A friend of mine I running a non-for-profit organisation which was recently donated a couple of old PCs without any software licenses. The computers are intended for a typical office use, sending emails, preparing documents, brochures, presentations…
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Microsoft photo editor - No file format information can be found in the registry (registry policy)

I have Windows Server 2003 and my users are running XP. When I installed Microsoft office 2000 the photo editor said "No file format information can be found in the registry". I Googled it and I found this site. It's wonderful but the problem is I…
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How can I get Microsoft Office running perfectly on Ubuntu?

I have a number of users in our office. They do 90% of their work in the browser using Google Docs and a number of other online tools. I would prefer to deploy Ubuntu to them as it does not require any maintenance and does not need a format/install…
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Which part of my OS is bringing up this OpenCurPrinter dialog?

One of our Enterprisey systems has a long-running batch process that sometimes get interrupted by the following popup dialog: OpenCurPrinter: printer: \\FS3\HP30351st, port: Ne00:, drive: winspool Error initializing the printer (where…
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Office documents on intranet all requiring second login and can't pass auth? Disable webdav?

I am not sure what is going on, but recently all the Office documents on our intranet get prompted a second time for login and according to the error logs it looks like it's trying to use webdav to open (an editable?) version of the document to save…
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Are there any issues for having both Office 2003 and 2007 on one machine?

My machine has Office 2003 Professional installed. I am trying to install Office 2007 but there is an option to leave 2003 version. Has anyone had any issue for having a two different versions of office in one machine?
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