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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Spaces and some other fonts are changed to rectangles?
I installed Microsoft Office 2011 yesterday on my MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard. I already had Microsoft Office 2008 on this device and simply added 2011. Now for some reason, many of my fonts have ...
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Is there a way to stop MS Word from automatically opening previously opened documents?
I know there's probably a setting in preferences, but I need to be able to do it without Word being open.
The problem is one of my docx has become corrupt, so every time Word opens it immediately ...
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Why is Outlook 2011 constantly writing to my hard disk?
I recently installed a hard disk write monitoring program (MenuMeters), and for some reason it was reporting that my drive is constantly being written to. By closing programs one at a time, I've ...
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Markdown to .doc or .rtf
I'm interested in using a variation of Markdown for my work, but my target format is Word files (this is what my clients use, it's non-negotiable). Most implementations of Markdown would leave me with ...
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Setup Exchange OWA / Activesync on iPhone
I'm wondering whether there's a way I can configure my phone sync my corporate emails and calendars?
Sometimes when I'm away for meetings all day, I am not informed of any last minute meeting ...
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With WebDAV provided by Microsoft SharePoint, how can users of OS X minimise risks of corruption and multiuser overwrites?
There are various OS X approaches to using the WebDAV service provided by Microsoft SharePoint.
Integrity of data
Answers to this question focus on integrity:
when a file is used by a single ...
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Equation Options on Word 2011 for Mac
I use both Macs and PCs. In the PC version of Word, I can modify the equation options directly from the Equation ribbon bar. One option I need is the ability to copy the equation as plain text. Does ...
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Creating folders from the Open File dialog
I need to know how to create client file folders and reference or matter subfolders to be saved within each client folder from within the Open File dialog.
For example, "Smith Manufacturing Corp." ...
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Office for Mac buy from Sweden
I am interested in buying Office for Mac 2011. I am in Sweden. Whenever I want to buy it from a website it shows like Office för Mac Hem och Student 2011 - 1 Paket (Svenska). Does it means software ...
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Adding an event to a “subscribed public folder” calendar in Outlook 2011
I am attempting to add an event to a calendar in "Subscribed Public Folders" in Outlook 2011. However, every time I add an event, it ends up on my own calendar rather than the shared one. I have ...
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How do I view comments in Microsoft Word 2011 for OSX?
How do I view comments in Microsoft Word 2011 for OSX? I can turn on the review pane, but that shows me every edit I've done to this document and it's impossible to find the comments. I just want a ...
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Is there an undo column feature in Word?
I am new to Microsoft Word. I accidentally formatted a section as columns and now cannot undo it. My whole (large!) document is now in column mode and I cannot get it back to normal mode.
I have ...
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can I use the license keys from a Microsoft office family pack between friends not in the same household? [closed]
The note on the site for this says its for 3 Macs in the same household. A friend and I want to split the cost of the family pack. We don't live in the same household. I had a chat on the MS Office ...
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Mail and Entourage causes system hang
I have been using Mac OSX 10.6.8 Build 10K549 for over a year now.
I have a 3.06 GHz Intel Core i3 with 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM. I also have 2 cores.
I usually use Microsoft Entourage 2008 Version ...
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Outlook 2011 Keyboard Shortcut for going to Inbox
Is there a keyboard shortcut in Outlook for Mac 2011 that allows me to jump back to the main Inbox folder? Under my Inbox, I have a long list of folders that spans more than a full screen. If I'm at ...
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Preserve subfolders when archiving in Outlook for Mac
Outlook for Mac 2011 (14.2.2) doesn't appear to have any archive (auto, or otherwise) functionality. Most of the advice on the web seems to suggest rule based archiving, however this seems to only ...
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Certain shortcut keys not working in Microsoft Office
After installing Word and Excel for Mac 2011 on my Lion system, certain shortcut keys that should be working are not. I am not talking about the keys that are different from Windows, but ones that ...
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Can the formula bar font in Excel 2011 be changed?
Is it possible to change the font, specifically the size of the font, in the formula bar of Excel 2011?
I've found a number of resources to do this in the Windows version but none of those ...
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Keep message selection in Outlook 2011
When I open the Outlook window, the topmost message (the most recent) becomes selected. I've got Outlook set to automatically mark messages as read when selected, so it becomes read. This is a problem ...
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What is this odd Excel file doing here?
Recently, I was working on an Excel file when the program closed unexpectedly; luckily, my work was mostly saved by the recovery feature of Excel. However, Excel created a file on my desktop, titled ...
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Syncing iCal with Outlook2011
No matter what I do, I can't get new items that I add to Outlook 2011 calendar to actually show up in iCal. Is this a bug? Does anyone have a fix for this?
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Word:mac 2011 preserve table formatting on copy-paste
In Microsoft Word 2010 for Windows, I can duplicate a table simply by clicking its handle at the top-left (which selects the entire table), copying it and pasting it. When I do that in Word:mac, the ...
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Word 2011: Keyboard shortcuts for accepting/rejecting a tracked change AND moving to the next change
Is there such a built-in shortcut for doing such action pairs? (e.g. accept+move to next, using a single shortcut)
If not, how can I define such a custom shortcut?
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Highlighting/Shading problem on Word
I am using Word 2011 for Mac. For the past week or so, I have been working on notes for programming, and had been shading anything involving code, similar to StackExchange format. The highlight ...
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Word 2011: Create caption header without numbering
I want to create a header for each page which displays the caption.
But i don't want to show the number of the caption.
How can i manage this?
For now, i did it with StyleRef, but it displays ...
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Can MS Outlook work with iCloud? Can I iCloud-sync my iPad 2, iPhone 4S and Outlook 2010?
I haven't been successful getting iCloud to work with Outlook 2010 on my Windows 7 PC. My iPad 2 and iPhone 4S are iCloud synced. Is it hopeless to get all 3 together: iPhone, iPad and Outlook 2010?
I ...
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How do add new proofing languages to Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac?
How is possible to add new spellchecking languages to Office 2011 for Mac?
I am referring to languages that are not listed in the relatively small (~20) default list of languages.
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Possible to open/convert Office 98 for Mac PowerPoint file
Is it possible to open or convert a Mac Office 98 PowerPoint file (.pp)? I don't need to edit it, just either convert it to a more recent version or save as a pdf. I don't have access to anything ...
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Can't login to Lync for Mac 2011
I am unable to login to my corporate Lync 2010 server. I'm up to date with Microsoft updates to Mac Office 2011. I've tried automatic and manual configuration. I've tried with and without Kerberos ...
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Dragging cropped .pdf file to Mac Powerpoint 2011 - Result is completely different area of original!
I am trying to copy/drag a .pdf file into a powerpoint presentation for Mac PPT 2011.
I do the following:
1. Select and copy the top right corner of the original .pdf page
2. Save this 'corner' as ...
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How similar is Microsoft Excel for Mac to Excel for Windows?
Like the title says - how similar is Microsoft Excel for Mac to Excel for Windows? Is it confusing when you have to keep switching from one to the other when working on a complicated excel file? (For ...
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Exporting PDF with table of contents hyperlinks in Microsoft Word 2011?
When I save a document in Word 2011 to PDF, the hyperlinks in the documents' table of contents and other cross-reference links aren't clickable. That is in the PDF document when I click on a table of ...
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Outlook 2011: where are mail message in my archive file stored?
I use Outlook to access Exchange. I store old mail in an Outlook Archive folder. I know that Outlook 2011 stores data in /Users/<user>/Documents/Microsoft User Data but where exactly are these ...
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Microsoft Word does not respond to keyboard shortcuts
I have a MacBook Pro with Microsoft Word 2011 installed on it.
For some reason, all the editing keyboard shortcuts - such as Cut: Cmd + X, Copy: Cmd + C, and Undo: Cmd + Z - does not work in it.
My ...
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How to remove color formatting of links in Microsoft Word?
In Microsoft Word for Mac 2011, I'm trying to edit the Hyperlink and FollowedHyperlink styles so that they don't modify the text's color that I'm hyperlinking.
For example, let's say I have the ...
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How do I script Powerpoint to save a directory of PPTX files as PDFs?
If I have a directory of PPTX files I would like to save as PDFs. How do I script this operation?
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Navigating forward/backward in Microsoft Word?
I have a Word document with internal links (i.e. a link will jump to anchor in the same document). When I click on one of these links, it jumps to that location, as it is supposed to.
How can I get ...
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How to open a .lwp file on a Mac?
I need to fill in a form that was sent to me in .lwp format... So far:
The App Store couldn't find any compatible apps;
I found out it's a Lotus WordPro document;
By using Word's Recover text from ...
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Mac Powerpoint 2011 “play” presentation w/out full screen?
I'm trying to play a presentation with Powerpoint without seeing it in full screen. (my goal is to take notes on the presentation in a separate window/app).
Any ideas how to do this? I want to be ...
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Microsoft Word on MacBook Pro: Tab problems
While working on an existing document (a simple three-column Word table), the document has stuck on the "Table Layout" tab. When I try to open another tab eg Home, or Document Elements, the toolbar ...
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Add email address automatically to address book in Outlook 2011
In Mac Mail app, every time I send an email, the recipients are added automatically to a pool of addresses which are used for auto completion in a later point of time.
For example, I send an email ...
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How to set Outlook 2011 as the main contact manager?
When I installed Microsoft Outlook 2011 Lion asked me if I wanted to use it as my main Mail client. How can I make Outlook be my main contact manager in OSX?
For example when I open FaceTime my ...
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How to Remote-Sync IPad Calendar with Outlook
Without installing ITunes, and without attaching my IPad3 to my PC, I want to synchronize my IPad calendar with my Outlook calendar.
I thought I could make this work by creating the following ...
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How to sort tasks in Mac Office 2011 Outlook with multiple columns
I'm using Outlook 2011 for Mac and I want to sort my tasks using multiple columns. I found the hint to use the shift key while clicking on the columns, but that does not work unfortunately...
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Tab not working on Microsoft Word 2011
I'm not sure what's going on here, but whenever I go to a new line, tab doesn't work. It doesn't work in other lines of the same paragraph either, but if I go back to a previous paragraph, hit tab, ...
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email delivery - ms outlook set up
I recently purchased a 15" MBP.
The unit is set up and fully operational, but I am uncertain about Outlook set up.
I have MS Outlook '11 installed with 3 POP accounts created and receive mail into the ...
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Writing equations inline in Mac Word
This may be just something that I'm going to have to lose with the conversion from PC to Mac, but:
On the Windows version of Word 2011, when you click equation, the program immediately goes into ...
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Best way to see multiple Microsoft Word windows?
I just made the switch from Windows to Mac, and one thing that's been bothering me is that on a Mac, I can't see multiple Word documents that I have open. On Windows, they all appear in the taskbar ...
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Word for Mac - Equations
I am finally making the switch from Windows to Mac and one big impediment/irritant is in the switch from Word for Windows to Word for Mac. I do a lot of mathematical work and have a large number of ...
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iCloud transferred but won't sync
I set up iCloud on my PC laptop from iTunes and it synced up to the cloud but won't refresh. Do I need to delete and start again or is there a better way? I have nearly 5,000 contacts and as busy ...
