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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Is it possible to mount SharePoint as a volume in 10.6?
Background
My office uses:
Microsoft SharePoint to store and version our documents
Microsoft Office, with Microsoft Document Connection to connect to the SharePoint site.
Question 1
Can Finder ...
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What is the keyboard shortcut for editing a cell in Excel?
I can't find the keyboard shortcut for this on the mac. It's F2 on a windows machine.
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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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What is the best way to move Microsoft Office 2011 to a new Mac?
I've purchased Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Office 2011 (single computer), and have installed and activated on my current Mac.
Given that I've already activated the software for my current ...
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Outlook 2011 won't open, fails with exit code 255
Outlook 2011 keeps closing about 2 seconds after launch. There is brief flashing in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen but then nothing. I have checked the console and I am seeing error 255. I ...
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1answer
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Why are cursor keys in Excel moving the viewport rather than the active cell?
Excel for Mac (2011) should move the currently active cell when I use the cursor keys. Currently, it is moving the viewport in the document. Is there a way to switch this back to the default setting? ...
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Note taking for school
I'm considering getting a Macbook or a Macbook Pro (I use Windows on my desktop computer), and I'm thinking about how note taking could be done.
Most I'm thinking would use Microsoft Word/Pages, but ...
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Why doesn't Microsoft Office/2008(& later) support RTL languages?
I have Microsoft Office/2008 on my MacBook Pro. Office doesn't support RTL languages like Farsi and Arabic, and I know that Office/2010 (for Windows) also has the same problem.
Do you think the lack ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Ribbon tabs in Office/Word/Excel 2011 stop working
Occasionally some of the ribbon tabs in Office/Word/Excel 2011 become unclickable so you can't choose that tab. It's usually the ones on the left in my experience like Home or "Header and Footer". The ...
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2answers
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Mail.app import from Entourage failed
I am trying to import my entire folder structure from Entourage 2008 to Mail on a Mac running OS X 10.5.8.
First I tried to export the whole email database from Entourage to the Desktop as a .rge ...
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1answer
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How to disable all notifications in MS Office 2008, Entourage?
The subject says it all, but for further explanation, MS Office has this (what I consider annoying feature) of notifying me of pretty much anything that happens in Entourage—emails, calendar events, ...
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How to change default cell formats in Excel 2011?
My employer has provided me with Office 2011 on my MBP workstation, running Mountain Lion. They use networked Excel docs almost exclusively, so I need to adapt to it. There's a handy toolbar item for ...
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1answer
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Problem setting up Exchange server on Outlook 2011
I have an Exchange server account which works fine on my Windows Vista pc. I have set it up with no problem on my iPhone. However, on my MacBook Pro it does not work: the icon under "Default Account" ...
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2answers
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Some PDFs created by MS Word 2007's Save-as-PDF feature (on Windows) don't display correctly on Mac OS / iOS
Some PDFs created by MS Word 2007's Save as PDF feature (on Windows) don't display correctly on Mac OS using the built-in PDF handling. They display correctly using Acrobat, Photoshop, Inkscape, or ...
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Cannot update Microsoft Office 2011
I have tried numerous ways to fix this problem :
Clean uninstall and re-install of Office 2011
Download individual updates
Download older Office updates
I always stop at "Destination Select" step ...
