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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How to prevent Mac Outlook from inserting line breaks in sent plain text emails?
When I send plain text emails with Mac Outlook, line breaks are automatically inserted. This is annoying for several reasons. (1) long URLs are split over multiple lines which confuses readers; (2) ...
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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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Word 2011 for Mac: keyboard shortcut for turning balloons on/off in review mode
Does anybody know if I can create a keyboard shortcut to toggle "Use balloons to display changes"?
Also, is there a webpage where one can vote for features for the next Word release? I want to have ...
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Unable to add Exchange 2010 account to Outlook 2011
I have a user who is trying to setup Outlook 2011 with his Exchange 2010 mailbox/account. When entering the details for the account Outlook 'freezes'.
This is the window it freezes at.
I have tried ...
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Can a new mail be sent using AppleScript + Outlook + IMAP?
I'm trying to use apple script to automate creation of a new outlook mail message.
The below code will work when I have my email account sent up as pop3 but I need it to work with an IMAP account.
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generate Keynote presentation from text or Markdown?
Is there a way to automatically generate a Keynote presentation from a source file written in text format, Markdown format, or org-mode?
I know that Pandoc and other tools can generate HTML-based ...
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Mac Mail won't connect to Exchange 2007
We recently had a mail outage and eventually got mail back - it was a disk space issue. The PCs with Outlook can connect in without issues but the couple of Macs we have won't connect at all. I can ...
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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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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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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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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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Is there a keyboard shortcut to focus on the Ribbon in Microsoft Office 2011 products?
I would like to be able to create charts in Excel using my keyboard only. Is there some way of moving focus to the Ribbon with the keyboard?
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Solver Window Resize in Mac Office 2011
For what ever reason the Solver add-in for Mac Office's Excel 2011 produces the following dialog box when attempting to add a constraint to Solver:
Does anyone have a similar problem? Or know how ...
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Unwanted table formatting during cut and past in MS Word:Mac 2011
When breaking up a table in order to comment on each section separately, I cut and pasted the sections, which worked well, but then I tried to include introductory paragraphs and these seems to be ...
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Outlook calendar won't synch with iPhone 3 and software v6.0
Microsoft Office 2010 was syncing with my iPhone 3 calendar until c. 2 weeks ago - I think it's an iPhone software upgrade issue? I have 2 email accounts in Outlook - a POP acct which I don't synch - ...
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Problem entering accented characters with Mac OS X 10.7.4 and MS Office
When I first installed MS Word for Mac on this MacBook Air, pressing and holding characters such as o and u produced a little menu of accents for that character - wonderful! But all of a sudden, this ...
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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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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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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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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 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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MS Word rendering problem with Apple products?
I created the Word 2010 file and then converted it to PDF in Windows. I recently tried to open this PDF file on my iPhone, the problem is only the cover page which iPhone renders quite horribly (there ...
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Microsoft Outlook: Viewing Messages
I am currently having an issue with Microsoft Outlook 2011. Whenever I open a message and attempt to drag it down, the moment I release my cursor the message box returns to its original position. I ...
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Populate Pages Chart Data via Applescript
Right now I'm copy and pasting between Excel and specified places in a Pages document. For instance, I'll copy cell B7 and find "B7_Value" in Pages and replace it with the copied value. Here's an ...
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Taglocity “Clone” For Mac Outlook 2011?
I'm a huge user of Taglocity on Windows (Outlook 2010). Being a recent convert to a Mac, I'm very interested in using the Outlook app from Mac Office 2011. However, I can't get by without some at ...
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How can I make Outlook 2011 faster when navigating over “conversations”?
I receive a lot of email with the same subject. Outlook 2011 groups those emails by Conversation. When I navigate the emails in my inbox, e.g. with the Ctrl+[, Ctrl+], Outlook often stops responding ...
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Excel 14.1.0 (110310) on OSX 10.7.5 doesn't have Full Screen function
I have OSX 10.7.5 on 2009 MacBook with Excel 14.1.0 but I don't have Full Screen function. I Googled and am sure that this version of Excel and OSX should have Full Screen, but I just can't find it. ...
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Microsoft Word 2007 Default Language
Hi I am a first timer here. My dictionary on MS Word 2007 keeps switching back to English North America and I really want it in UK English. Does anybody know how to solve this problem?
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Outlook for Mac “Your database could not be rebuilt [-47]”
Recently, whenever I open outlook it tells me that my the database needs to be rebuilt. I attempted to and receieved an error the first time. I delete the database file located in ...
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Mark messages the same in: iPad, iPhone, Outlook for Mac and Google Apps
I'll start with the fact that I am not sure if this question goes here, or in WebApps.
I have an iPhone, iPad, Macbook air with Outlook for Mac. An Email account is reading my enterprise messages ...
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Office Mac - Open WebDAV URL as a command line paramater
On Windows (and even with OpenOffice), you simply do something like:
WINWORD.EXE http://www.webdavserver.com/some/file.docx
and Word will open it off the server and allow you to edit it.
On Mac ...
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Outlook 2011 - “Arrange By: From” collapsible lists stay open
I've got a folder in my inbox for sorting out-of-office and vacation messages from my coworkers. It's nice and convenient to arrange by "From" - keeps everyone encapsulated in their own collapsible ...
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Viewing Composite Document File V2 Documents
Every now and then I receive attachments from Windows users that show up as "Picture (Device independent Bitmap)" and - when I run "file" on the command line, they are identified as "Composite ...
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Mac Outlook 2011 pasting text not at cursor
I'm using outlook for emails, each time I paste copied/cut text (from within the same email) it will not paste at the the cursor/ibar but at the top of the email text.
Any solutions?
Thanks in ...
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Word resizes pictures in document?
Whenever I add a picture to MS Word, the resolution becomes distorted along with the quality of the image. In windows, you can reset a picture and it will be displayed with the correct dimensions. ...
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Keyboard shortcut for editing cell in formula bar (Excel 2011)
I know that editing within a cell is ctrl+U on Excel (Mac Office 2011), but that edits within the cell itself (with the cursor at the end of the line). What is the shortcut for jumping to the end of ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
