A robust family of business productivity software: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook (or Entourage) are the main programs available on OS X.
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keyboard shortcut for paste in Powerpoint not command V
I was trying to figure out if this is supposed to be paste keyboard shortcut in Powerpoint for Mac. On my system (OS X 10.8.2), it's showing up as a combination of control-option-C, which seems ...
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Presentation software for ipad which works also on windows 7 laptop for remote control
Very soon I have a presentation at school. and would like a suggestion regarding the application for iOS which can I use for the Powerpoint presentation. I would like an app that allows me to change a ...
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How do I remove or alter timestamps from Word 2011 (Mac Office) tracked changes?
Is there an easy way to batch change a group of Track Changes edit and comment timestamps in Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac? Can I remove the timestamps altogether (ideally without removing my name)?
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Restore Mac Office from TIme Machine Backup
I purchased a Mac Office license through my college, and I recently backed up and restored my Mac using Time Machine. I did not RESTORE from the Time Machine backup as a whole, but rather hand-picked ...
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Powerpoint Preview boxes not showing on monitor
hi i'm using MS Powerpoint on a mac mini. it's connected to my desktop monitor and also connected to our projector. a few weeks before, every time i play the slides to the projector i'm getting this ...
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Can I store my RGE file (Entourage 2008) to an network drive?
Can I store my RGE file (Entourage 2008) to an network drive instead of a local folder ?
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MS Office 2011 Word printing range of pages fails
I tried to print pages 7-8 and 11-14 of a 14 page document. Word decided it was going to print the whole document. No matter what settings I tried; whole document. Except that you can successfully ...
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Why does the Century font in Pages '09 not include italics or bold?
I am using Apple Pages '09 to write a brief, where the font must but in Century. In Microsoft Word, the Century font has an italics, bold, and underline option. However, in Pages the only available ...
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How to use different mailboxes (sent folder) in Outlook for Mac
I am a network administrator and have come across a problem regarding MS Outlook for MAC. The user has their own account already added to their outlook. They have requested that a group mailbox could ...
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Repeating Text Within a Word Document?
Using OS X 10.6.8 and Word 2011 for Mac. I have developed a Word document template for a client which is used for surveys. Each time the document is used, it has a different property address. Is ...
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Move Archived Outlook Data Record to external storage
I'm keeping a lot of old email archived in the OLM files (I was using PST in the PC). Unfortunately this is using 20GB of my 128 SSD and I'd like to move them in an external disk. What is the best way ...
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Excel Data Analysis TookPak available for download for Microsoft Office for Mac 2011?
Does anyone know how to download the data analysis toolpack add-in for Excel 2011 for Mac? I have looked around quite a bit and can't seem to find it anywhere...did Microsoft discontinue this ...
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Microsoft Outlook 2011 constantly crashing
I just purchased Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac last week. Outlook CONSTANTLY crashes. I have tried everything… uninstall and re install twice, rebuilding main identity. Please help! I am so frustrated ...
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Disable Office for Mac 2011 First Use Registration
I'm setting up some macbooks for use in a cart for a school. Students would share the computers. When users first run any office applications, they get a window saying that they need to put in their ...
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Excel Mac 2011 doesn't update custom dates
Excel doesn't seem to update custom dates. For example, in the screenshot, the date should have a three letter day of week and a four digit year.
Tried pushing enter a bunch of different ways, and ...
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I want to upgrade my mac but not my microsoft package - can i transfer it?
I'm going to get a new machine but would rather invest my pennies in new illustrator software than Office - can I transfer my MS package? Thanks
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Edit MS office documents on FTP server (iPad)
I got an iPad Mini for Christmas and I also got CloudFTP (for those who don't know, it's a device which allows you to access files on your USB storage medium via FTP or the web app). It works great to ...
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Command line tool to convert DOC and DOCX files to PDF
Is there any command line tool to convert DOC and DOCX files to PDF? If no, can it be automated by some Automator script (open-print to PDF-close)?
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Powerpoint: compress or downsample large images/graphics
I'm using Powerpoint 2011, and I'm not able to find an option to easily downsample or compress images to produce a smaller output PPTX or PPT file.
I don't need the high resolution in some of the ...
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How to batch convert word documents to pdf?
Is there a scriptable way that I can convert several MS Word documents to PDF? I thought this might be possible using python, but I am unable to find any advice online on how best to do this.
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One-Way Sync with Outlook
I want to sync my calenders from Outlook 2007 to my iPhone 5, but only in this way. My calenders on my iPhone and changes should not be synced to my Outlook.
Can I achiev this without Jailbreak and ...
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Word for mac 2011 - How to use ONLY the custom dictionary?
I would like to use spelling corrections in Word for mac 2011. Since my language (slovenian) is not included, I had to find and include a custom dictionary.
The installation goes like this:
I import ...
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MS Outlook 2010 - Notes copied and pasted into appointments not being saved consistently
My employer is having a consistent issue with notes being copied and pasted into his calendar appointments not being saved. He will open the appointment, paste in the note(s), and select Save & ...
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Disable Word's “preparing document” hyperlink mechanism
When you click a hyperlink in a Word document, Word seems to download the entire contents of the link before opening it in your browser. For large documents or on slow connections, this can add quite ...
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Stop Office for Mac from loading with earlier documents on top of the one I opened?
Here's an irritation that annoys me almost every working day:
I need to work from a Word or Excel (for Mac, Office 2011) document.
So, I find the document on the shared server, and open it.
The ...
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Imported contacts are empty
I have an odd problem. I got an iphone5 and of course, I want all my contacts from my nokia into my iphone, I imported the contacts into outlook, then exported to an csv file, then imported to gmail ...
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what is format painter shortcut in mac excel 2011?
I'm looking for shortcut in the internet. No luck so far, it seems there's no shortcut for such tool. Maybe someone here knows better.
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How do I make comments visible in Microsoft Word 2011 for OS X?
I had my comments in Microsoft Word showing up on the right had pane as usual, but I must have done something to make it disappear. I can't figure out how to make it visible again. When I attempt to ...
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What is the keyboard shortcut to insert a comment during track changes in Word?
When I am editing a Word document using track changes it would be nice not to have to got to the mouse to insert a comment at the cursor (since this is most of what my editing consists of).
What is ...
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How to fix icloud outlook calendar pasting?
I have a client that has outlook 2007 on windows 7. He's unable to right click and paste into the notes section of an appointment (the contextual menu doesn't even appear). I've seen other people ...
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Apple Automator Question Copy and Paste
How would I copy all of the text from a powerpoint presentation and paste it into a word document?
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Display PowerPoint notes on iPhone during presentation?
When presenting a PowerPoint (.pptx) document, I'll likely have a clicker but cannot count on having visible access to the notes I've written inside it for each slide to help me present.
The ...
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Outlook for 2011 automatically moving messages to on my computer
Recently upgraded corporate computers to Mac running on a premise Exchange Server (2010) from PC. 8 of the 9 computers have no problem synchronizing between the Exchange Server and Outlook.
However, ...
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Outlook 2011 Search Email
How can search email in outlook?
my outlook seems didn't have search bar like in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jbRYk_Cc0U
Here is screenshot of my Outlook:
As you can see, my outlook ...
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Why won't Office 2011 install on Snow Leopard?
I'm trying to install Office on my mother-in-law's MacBook. The installer fails every time with:
12/28/12 12:26:42 PM installd[1798] PackageKit: Install Failed: PKG: pre-install scripts for ...
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Bidirectional sync between Outlook and iPhone?
I use an iPhone 4S with iTunes 11 on Windows 7. I still haven't found a way to change the syncing direction with Outlook: The first time I used sync, I checked the option "Sync from Outlook to iPhone" ...
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vba split() not working in Mac Word 2004
I was trying to run a Word macro on a Mac. That macro contains the split() function. When I run this it is throwing an error saying function or sub not defined.
StrArr = Split(InputString, ":", -1, ...
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Why does Microsoft Office 2011 open automatically upon start up?
Why do Microsoft Office Word, Excel, et cetera open automatically upon login although I've disabled the 'Open at login' feature?
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Expunge a corrupted Excel program
All my downloaded spreadsheets are going to Excel which is totally corrupted. I want them to open in Numbers instead and ditch Excel if possible.
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Word 2011: In track changes mode “final showing markup”, most text missing in some table rows
I'm using track changes to edit a large table (several columns, many rows spanning multiple pages). Some columns have only one or a few words, while others have two or three paragraphs of one to three ...
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Can't find Excel 2011 Auto-recovered spreadsheet
Yesterday morning my colleagues Excel 2011 (on Mac OSX 10.8) crashed. He reopened Excel and was asked if he wanted to recover the previous document. Yes, he said and then got a document named ...
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iPhone's and Outlook - using IMAP
We have our email hosted by a web hosting company. Our iPhones and Outlook on our Desktop both use IMAP protocol. However, when we read a message in Outlook, it doesn't mark the message as read on our ...
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iOS Sync Outlook Calender and Contacts
I'm trying to help a family member with their iPhone. I'm pretty tech savy, but I would rather ask this question because I don't deal with iOS too often.
The iPhone used to sync calendars and ...
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Word 2011 for Mac: Word 2010 Styles?
Trying to get a Style Set that's exactly the same as the default on Word 2010 for Windows. Word 2011 for Mac does offer a Style set called Word 2010, but e.g. the fonts for Normal and Heading styles ...
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Word 2011 for Mac: How to delete a Quick Style Set?
Tryig to delete a quick style set from Word 2011 for Mac. This link claims the styles are in "/Users/USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Style Set" and the save dialog seems to ...
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Outlook 2011: Added an Exchange profile, lost previous profile data
A friend of mine wanted to use an Exchange account additionally to his normal profile (POP3 email, calendar etc.) in Outlook 2011.
He said he just added and configured the profile. When he re-openend ...
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How effective is a Time Machine backup?
I'm having a problem with Office not installing correctly and not being able to update. I have one last resort which is Backing up and formatting my system.
However I would like to know how effective ...
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Can I export my account configuration from Mail app and import it into Outlook?
I am meeting an unexpected issue where Mail app connects just fine to my Exchange 2007 server given my email address, login and password (autodiscovery), but Outlook 2011 fails to connect. If I try to ...
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Open Outlook new message window from terminal
I would like to open a new message Outlook window from terminal and ideally prefill the message body too.
Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Txn!
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Impossible to change font size in Microsoft Office 2011 Mac and freeze OSX
I have a strange problem and It seems that I am the only one having this problem.
I installed a brand new Office Mac 2011 from scratch, with a valid serial.
The installation goes well, and Office is ...
