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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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Registry key to make word 2003 default on .doc

I need to have both word 2003 and word 2010 installed on the same machine. How can I make word 2003 default on .doc? Registry key? Tnx
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Prevent Authentication Prompt When Streaming Office Documents

I have an issue where when streaming office documents from SQL Server, an authentication dialog prompts for credentials even though the user has been authenticated via basic auth in the browser. Clicking cancel on the auth dialog still allows the…
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Time Application Startup

Is there anyway to time how long it takes an Application to start up on the Mac? We were getting reports of Word 2008 taking a half-hour to launch, and, while we think we've resolved the problem, it would be nice, in the future, to be able…
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How to give everyone access to a office@companyname address and let everyone see what messages were answered

This should be simple (because I assume everyone has this problem) but googling and searching of serverfault didn't help much. I'd like all messages sent to our "office@companyname" to be visible by everyone and I'd like anyone to be able to…
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Terminal Server 2008 - Slow File open dialog in Office 2003

I have yet another small issue that annoys me everyday in our Terminal Server environment. It seems when logging into Terminal Server users report the initial File | Open or File | Save As from within an application such as Word, Excel (2003…
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Opening Office 2007 files using a Vista or Win7 client on a server 2008 file share causes lockups and explorer crashes

I think this mostly happens when trying to open files opened by other users. In the XP/2003 days you would get some kind of warning about a locked/read only file. With 7/Vista/2008 I'm just seeing clients hang (Word just sits there) and if I go into…
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No Office XP Updates since installed Compatibility Pack from WSUS

we got a bunch of boxes, running Windows XP and Office XP. Since we installed the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack, Office XP does not get updates anymore. Our WSUS provides Office 2007 patches for these computers but no Office XP, e.g. the urgantly…
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Microsoft Office "Read-only" warning not appearing on Samba shares on Mac OS X Server

some of my users don't get the "read-only" warning (but "read-only" does appear on the title bar and the document is indeed opened read-only) when opening Office 2007 documents already opened by another user. We run the samba share off an XSan…
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Does removing admin rights really mitigate 90% of Critical Windows 7 vulnerabilities found to date? as reported by beyondtrust.com

Beyondtrust.com published a report, somewhat recently, claiming among other quite compelling things, "90% of Critical Microsoft Windows 7 Vulnerabilities are Mitigated by Eliminating Admin Rights" Other interesting 'facts' they provide say that…
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MS Word - Keeps requesting user to save Normal template

We have Small Business Server 2008 setup on a couple of our clients networks and we have the following issue. Whenever they logon, Microsoft word automatically opens and requests them to save their changes to the template 'Normal'. It constantly…
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Word can't "print" an MDI file under limited user account (but it works as an admin)

This is the fourth in an increasingly narrow and increasingly annoying series of questions related to a hard deadline today. Anyone know internals of how Word "prints" MDI files? My limited users have R/W access to the directory they're to be saved…
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User given a login prompt when closing Word documents after viewing them in IE7

When using IE7 to view Word documents on our CRM system (an ASP.NET 2.0 application running on Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6 and using Windows authenticaton) I'm finding that a prompt appears when the user closes the document. The Word document is…
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Outlook 2016 on Exchange server is not processing rules

Someone has asked me to help with his exchange server in the office, however I am a network administrator and not really experienced with Windows and Exchange. Problem here is that they have a set of rules to organize incoming emails. The exchange…
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Duplicates are being imported into Exchange Mailboxes

I am using the New-MailboxImportRequest to import .PST files into existing mailboxes. These mailboxes have emails in them that are also included in the .PST file being imported. The import request completes successfully, some needing the…
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How do I automatically in-place archive items in users' Deleted Items folders?

We have an In-Place Archive set up on our Office 365 setup. We would like for our default policy to be to automatically IPA any item, including (and especially) in the Deleted Items folder, after 1 year. We've already attempted to create and apply a…
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