Questions tagged [ms-office]
A suite business software designed by Microsoft: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook (or Entourage) are the main programs available on OS X. For Outlook 2015, use the office-365 tag.
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Schengen 180 day calculator works in Excel, not in Apple Numbers
I have an excel spreadsheet I created on Windows for a friend to caculate how many days someone has spent in the EU's Schengen area over any 180 day period (I've shown an image from it below). It ...
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How to save sent messages in Outlook to the same folder as message being replied to?
If I am replying to an email in Folder "TEST", how do I get a reply to automatically go to the Folder "TEST" as opposed to the Sent folder? This helps with productivity so that I don't have to move ...
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Using VBA to copy from Excel to Word [closed]
I'm trying to copy data from excel to word to create pdf's (up to 20 of them)
I dim wdapp as a word.application
And then try to run
set wdapp = New word.application
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Office documents are not reliably saved in OneDrive on iPad when using the Files app
I edited an Excel document by tapping on it in OneDrive on iPad, closed it, and opened it. The opened version was not the version I closed. Unreliable saving of office documents also happens in other ...
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Additional permissions are required to access the following files
I have a MS Word document with links to other word documents. Every time I click on one of these links, I get the "Additional permissions are required to access the following files" messages ...
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How to import text to columns and import numbers to text in macOS Numbers?
Windows Excel allows me to paste a body of text and in the bottom right corner of the pasted content, a menu prompt will pop up that can initiate the "Text Import Wizard" to import delimited ...
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Employer control over iPhone device
How does the 4 cases compare in the context of employer's control over iPhone from technical point of view:
A device is a managed device and such info appears in the main Settings menu, but is not ...
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Mac outlook reminders always late
Just reiterating a few locked threads that I found reporting the same issue but without any solution/conclusion:
Calendar reminders - noticeable delay
Calendar reminders in Outlook for Mac v15.3 show ...
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Shortcut to apply header style 4 (and 5, 6...)
In Microsoft Office Word, one can press ⌘⌥1, ⌘⌥2 or ⌘⌥3 to apply header styles 1, 2 or 3 respectively. This is also documented by Microsoft (see: Aligning and formatting paragraphs). However writing a ...
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Access chat in Microsoft Teams after meeting
Is there any way to access chats after a meeting in Microsoft Teams?
I have some kind of MS Teams app on my Macbook. I use it to join a MS Teams meeting when I'm invited to one.
However, it is not the ...
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What control over iPhone can Microsoft Authenticator have? [duplicate]
I use Microsoft Outlook and Teams on my private iPhone to access corporate accounts in my employer's network. At some point, the apps refused to access corporate data and asked to register the device ...
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Show the shortcuts when hovering over Microsoft Word icons
I am a fervent keyboardist: how can we find out the shortcuts for these icons? They used to be displayed when you hovered over them, but no more.
This is Microsoft Word for Mac version 16.79
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What is OLK15message files and how to recover it?
Can anyone explain to me what is an OLK15message file, what it has to do with Outlook 2016 for mac? Actually, my outlook mac database got corrupted and someone told me that Outlook Mac stores its ...
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How do you export accepted meeting attendees in Outlook
At my job, I organize large meetings (100+). At the end, I need a list of the email addresses of the people who accepted the invite. How do you export this list from Outlook on a Mac? I know it's ...
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Copy-paste not working between MS office and Apple apps
MacBookPro
Sonoma 14.1.2
Microsoft Word for Mac 16.80 (23121017)
Copy-paste has stopped working between MS office (especially Word) and Apple apps.
Neither direction works.
I can copy-paste between MS ...
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Inserting a file in microsoft word 2011
I want to insert/embed a file in the Word Document. If i go to, Insert -> File and then select the file, it inserts the text present in that file. But i want to display it as only an icon.
If i got ...
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Applescript Convert Word doc to docx
I am looking for a way to batch-convert/bulk-convert .doc files into .docx files. I found this TidBITS Talk that references a Redit thread for an AppleScript (AS) and a dead DropBox link for an ...
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How do I disable and delete Microsoft Auto Updater for Office:mac 2016? [duplicate]
I now using a 2024 MacBookPro on Sonoma 14.4 I set up using Migration Assistant. On my 2019 MacBook Pro I had installed a purchased suite Microsoft Office Home & Student 2016 . This program ...
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How can I fill the page when printing an MS word document with comments
I have a word document with comments. I wanna print it with the comments, but when I try, the document and the comments pane are shrunk, and do not fill the A4 paper properly (check photo). Tried ...
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Microsoft Word: copy paste doesn't work outside of application
I have:
Microsoft Office 16.45 installed from Mac App Store.
MacOS 11.1 Big Sur
I am trying:
Copy anything from any application except Word itself
Paste inside of Word application
The problem is ...
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Outlook for iOS Randomly Increase Email Font by 10x
I have Outlook for iOS on a Mac. Whether I send or receive a message, or whether it is a new message or a reply, Outlook will increase the font of one sentence at random in the email. The increase is ...
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How to Map f2 to Ctrl u in Excel (to make cell editing easier)
Just upgraded to High Sierra on my MacBook air 2011.
Unfortunately my Excel keyboard shortcuts have stopped working - I was using Karabiner to map F2 (usual windows edit key) to use ctrl u, which ...
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How to replace newline in Excel for Mac
It seems there are suggestions for how to replace a character or a string with a newline in Excel for Mac, such as In Mac Excel, how can I replace with newline?. But trying to reverse the process does ...
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Show keyboard shortcuts for buttons on Word
Clicking on buttons wastes time and takes me out of my flow (I prefer to compose without needing to look at the screen/keyboard etc). For common functions - e.g. anything that we can do in markdown ...
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Is there a way to mimic handwriting in MS Word?
I need to add some handwritten text into the text typed in MS Word. I've decided to use a handwriting font but the "handwritten" text isn't looking like really handwritten.
I guess, adding a ...
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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 do I add actions to the ctrl+click or right click menu when using it on a link on Microsoft Outlook?
I'm using the Microsoft Outlook Mac client to read work email. Sometimes I want to open links in my default browser, and sometimes I want to open them in a different browser. When I right-click on a ...
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Cannot set default file associations for .xml files
I'm on MacOS Ventura. I use it for work so MS Office is installed.
No matter what I do, XML files seem to always want to open with MS Word. I want them to open with another app. I'm using TextEdit as ...
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Shortcut for quick actions in Microsoft Word for macOS
My development IDE's have a single quick-action shortcut that brings up a dialog box in which one can search for specific commands to be applied. Here is what the looks like in Pycharm when hitting ⇧ ...
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Location of fonts downloaded within MS Word / Powerpoint / etc
In Microsoft Office 365 on the Mac, I have downloaded (i.e., clicked the icon that looks like a cloud with a down arrow) some fonts that are listed in the font dropdown menu. (More specifically, I've ...
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How to insert a tab in a cell in Excel for Microsoft 365
For inserting a tab in a cell, I have tried the instructions from a few resources but none work. Here is one from Microsoft Learn has options but they do not work: How do I indent in Excel 2011 for ...
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Paste text without formatting on Excel 16.82
There are existing questions about pasting without formatting into earlier versions of Excel - for example Is there a way to make paste as text only the default action in Office 2016?
I have gone ...
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Why does the name manager keep randomly appearing in Excel when I copy/paste with CMD-C/CMD-V?
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Mac - stuck on Monterey 12.7.3 due to hardware preventing upgrade
Office 365 subscription
Version 16.81 (24011420)
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Automatic sorting flagged items into folder
Is there a way to show all flagged emails in a folder called 'For Followup'? It would basically have to be a folder that has some kind of logic to it that looks for all flagged emails.
Thanks
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Microsoft Word (macOS) missing Paste Special and therefore unable to paste with formatting
I'm unable to paste with formatting on my Word Documents and for some strange reason, Paste Special only has an option for unformatted text. I've attached screenshots to explain further.
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Numbers.app or Excel: How to include cell bg color info as part of a CSV export?
I have a complex Numbers.app spreadsheet which contains a table with cells that are colored with different background colors. The different colors represent essential information.
When I export the ...
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MacOS - Excel - Copy / paste causes spinning beachball
I'm looking for suggestions as to the cause / solution to a spinning beachball every time I try and copy/paste in Excel.
This happens more on some spreadsheets, but is happening in one I use ...
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Outlook for Mac suddenly not syncing
I have been using Microsoft Outlook on my Mac for more than a year without issues. I have a few accounts synced and never had any trouble. Out of the blue, Outlook does not fetch one of my gmail ...
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Can I get iOS notifications for emails routed to folders?
I have rules in outlook that routes certain emails to folders. These still appear as "unread" in the mail app, but not in the inbox, so I'm not getting notifications. Is there a way to enable ...
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How to open a Microsoft Word document from the command line in macOS Sonoma?
In earlier iterations of macOS I would use
open -a Finder.app <filename>
In Sonoma that is resulting in two of the following dialog boxes :
The application "Microsoft Word" can't be ...
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How do I recover an old version of an excel file?
I spent an enormous amount of time working on multiple sheets in a single excel file. Now, it's gone and just has an old version. I'm not sure why it didn't get saved (I typically save things way more ...
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Mac Mail sometimes sending messages as attachment rather than as body
Our company has a remote worker who uses Mac Mail. Most of the time, and that's the difficult part - it doesn't appear to be every time, when this person forwards email with attachments, the body of ...
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My mac will not let me save word documents
I have a MacBook Pro from 2016 and as of this morning I have not been able to save my Word documents (Word 2017). I've never had issues before.
When I press save on a new document, a message pops up ...
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Not Receiving E-mail Notifications on iPhone
I've been having an issue for a while now in that I have not been getting e-mail notifications on my iPhone [and my Apple Watch by extension] - this includes both the Outlook and Gmail apps, and I do ...
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How to save the sent items in the folder where I'm replying from, in MS Outlook on Mac?
Same question has been asked before on how to fix this in the default Mail app on Mac, but I'm wondering if there is a solution also to the Microsoft Outlook app on Mac?
This is the link I found ...
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How to get quicklook working for Microsoft Office files
On macOS 10.14.6 and MS Office 16.32 (latest version), quicklook previews only show the icon for .doc and .docx files.
I have checked qlmanage, and cleared its cache:
~ qlmanage -r cache
qlmanage: ...
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How to make hyperlinks work on PDFs from MS Word for Mac
I am using Word 16-72 on Ventura 13.4.1.
I created a document with numerous hyperlinks to webpages and email addresses. Inside Word, I hover the mouse over the links and if I click, they work.
When I ...
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How to change default Math font in MS Word for Mac?
I downloaded a math font that I was able to set as default in MS Word Windows via the Equation Options settings. However, this settings box (in the screencap) doesn't seem to exist in the Mac version ...
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How can I ensure that Excel can import my pip-installed python libraries?
I have a script that imports Selenium WebDriver and it runs fine in VisualStudio debugger but fails when I call it from an Excel module because it can't find the Selenium module. Here's the code stub:...
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Outlook won't add new email account (Mac)
I am running Outlook for Mac, version 16.78.3.
I am trying to add an additional email account to Outlook using the standard process (Settings -> Accounts -> Add an account). The account I am ...
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