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How can I find and replace words across multiple .docx or .txt documents?
MacOS Sonoma 14.5
Macbook Pro M1
Office 365 (Institutional) (.docx not required)
I have about 50 documents that require swapping names within the document for ID codes. The documents are 30-40 pages ...
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VBA IIf Function different result to If Then Else
The user-defined function Excel VBA Office 365 Mac (Version 16.86 (24051422)) on macOS Ventura 13.6.7 generates different results if an "IIf" function is used instead of an "If Then ...
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Why does it make a difference how I launch an Excel VBA application on Mac OS?
I have Office 365 on a PC running Windows 11 and on a Mac Mini running Sonoma. Both Office versions are up-to-date. I develop an Excel VBA application on Widows. After testing thoroughly, I copy the ....
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Office Apps: No Network Connection: Please check your network settings and try again. [2604]
When I try and log in to my Office 365 apps with my corporate account on macOS Monterey 12.7.3 after changing my Active Directory password, I get the following error:
No Network Connection: Please ...
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Excel: Alert Limit Exceeded
I have a spreadsheet with a small number of cells
4 tabs.
The biggest circa 860 rows x 30 columns = 25800 cells
The size of the spreadsheet on disk is 225KB. (222,467 bytes)
The cell count in the ...
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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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How to change the author name that appears in comments on Word for Mac?
How do I change the author name that appears in comments on Microsoft Word for Mac? I'm using Mac OS 14 and Word from Microsoft Office 365 version 16.8
I've tried Preferences > User Info > Name ...
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RTL (right-to-left) comment text in Word 365
I'm running Mac OS 14.0. In both Word 365 on a Mac (Microsoft Office 365 for Mac version 16.80) and the web version, I can't get RTL (right-to-left) text to appear in comments. This type of text is ...
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Read Office365 email on iPhone
I have an iPhone with iOS 16.7 installed.
I have Microsoft Outlook 4.2339.0 installed.
Here are the steps:
Open the Microsoft Outlook app.
Choose Add account.
Enter my Office365 email address
Click ...
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Programmatically retrieve Microsoft Office 365 account
I'm trying to programmatically retrieve the Office 365 account in use by users on a Mac fleet.
I discovered this is apparently stored in the keychain, either in the msoCredentialSchemeADAL internet ...
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How to keep in sync the Outlook 365 Calendar for MacOS with the iCloud calndar
I'm on MS Outlook 365 for MacOS. I use it for a custom IMAP account. Sometimes I receive meeting invites and those are saved to the Outlook 365 calendar. Is there a way to sync them with one of my ...
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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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Cannot delete / move Mails on Office365
MacOX 13.1 (22C65)
My Mac Mail App is connected to an office 365 account via exchange. I have the following weird situation:
Using Outlook/Web: When I delete a message from the Inbox in Outlook/Web, ...
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Export MacOS Mail rules to Office 365 server
My company is moving our mail from an old IMAP server to an Office 365 server. I currently have dozens of mail rules for automatically filing messages into folders. I'm told that Office 365 can ...
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Hotkeys for Word 365 for changing font colors?
I would like to assign some hotkeys to switching font colors in word on my macbook. I just need something to toggle between red and black color. I went to Tools->Customize Keyboard0->Fonts, but ...
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OneDrive using high CPU while syncing Photos collection
I recently signed up for a Microsoft 365 account, with OneDrive — my plan is to move essentially all my data into the OneDrive folder on macOS (currently using 11.2.3) so it is continuously backed up. ...
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How to sync folders outside of the usual OneDrive sync folder?
I am setting up a OneDrive account on my Mac (macos 10.15.7). The OneDrive local folder is at ~/OneDrive/. I would like to sync other folders as well, e.g. ~/Music/, ~/Documents/, etc. OneDrive for ...
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Email Client Software that Limits Number of Downloaded Emails?
I'm searching for an email client (MacOS - I'm running Catalina) that limits the number of downloaded emails onto my macbook. Such as limiting to say 10000 emails, or limiting to emails in last 30 ...
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How to fix run-time error 53 every time I open a file in MS Word, Excel, or PowerPoint on Big Sur?
Since I installed Big Sur, I have run into this problem every time I open a document using Word or a worksheet using Excel or a slide show in PowerPoint:
Run-time error '53':
File not found: Library/...
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Office 365 newly purchased is not launching on my Big Sur Mac? What can I do?
I just installed big Sur on a Mac Book air. I purchased Office 365 and when I try to launch it, I gut just to base one, and then it stays stuck. What can I do?
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Is it better for performance issues to run Microsoft Teams on macOS or in a virtual machine with windows?
Microsoft Teams is known to cause performance issues on Mac OS.
I have a MacBook Pro 13' 2020 with 16 GB Ram and I was wondering if it would be better for overall performance to run Teams on a Virtual ...
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How to remove leading whitespace in a folder for OneDrive upload on mac os
I am currently transitioning my files from local to a OneDrive folder on my mac and after I have copied all of the files in I have hundreds of Sync issues which relate to file names containing spaces ...
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How to set Word default save location as "On My Mac"
How I can disable the default online save location in current versions of Word for Mac? I see that it is possible to "Set Default location" to online locations, but I don't see a way to do ...
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How to get Office 365 E-mail notifications on iPhone, without synching the mailbox?
I need to receive notifications on my iPhone whenever I receive a new work E-mail, but since I receive large quantities of E-mails using many GBs, don't want to actually have my E-mails load up and ...
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How can I clear metadata (personal data) from an Excel file in Microsoft 365 for macOS?
I want to make sure that an Excel file I created is purged of all personal and user metadata before passing it on, for confidentiality reasons.
For Windows, there are many guides for removing ...
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How do I get https://outlook.office365.com/ to stop notifications in Google Chrome
I get incessant notification sounds that do not respect macOS 10.14.6 settings and there is nothing seemingly relevant in Chrome or Outlook
settings either.
For some reason privacy in macOS settings ...
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Assign function key to Debug ("Step Into") in Mac Excel Visual Basic Editor
I've tried many things to assign a 1-key shortcut to the "Step Into" debugging function in the VBA editor for Mac Excel (Mac VBE). I posted a question about this on Stack Overflow but my experience is ...
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Outlook 365 - cannot search mailbox after restore
I'm a business user of Office 365, including Outlook. I recently had to replace the main SSD drive in my Mac Pro; I was unable to do a normal Time Machine restore (bombed out halfway through the ...
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Adding Bytes Using a Hex Editor
Due to incompatibility of root account and sandbox, I need to manually disable sandboxing of MS Office applications (so that it can be activated) by changing the value of com.apple.security.app-...
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FSD files - can I delete them?
These seem to take up loads of space. Can I safely delete them or will it cause problems?
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How do I open a OneDrive file in Preview using Applescript?
How do I open a OneDrive for Business file using Preview using Applescript? I’ve tried this so far:
tell application "Preview" to open POSIX file "Users/myname/One Drive - MySchoolOrCompany/path/to/...
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How can I stop the prompt "Do you want Microsoft Office to automatically update?"
I am one of the users on a multi-user version of Office365. I am a Mac user since 1991. This just started happening about 2-3 weeks ago and every time, I click "Not Now" out of frustration because ...
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Export Entourage Database files
I have a customer who has used Entourage 2008 on High Sierra for his email. Entourage 2008 has since stopped working. So I can't natively export to mbox.
I have since installed office 365 for his ...
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MS Office on the App Store: will it work with an existing 365 subscription?
Microsoft's Office apps have recently become available on the App Store. Can I use my existing Office 365 for Business subscription with these apps?
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How to make Outlook to go to the next unread email when deleting emails
When deleting emails in Apple Mail it will automagically move the focus to the next unread email, basically it moves the focus up one line.
When deleting emails in Outlook for Mac it keeps the focus ...
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What is the difference between OneDrive from AppStore and standalone installer
Right now there two options for installing OneDrive:
Install from the AppStore
Download and install a standalone installer
What is the difference between the two if any? (but then why there are two ...
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Setting up multiple O365 organisation accounts on iOS
I was about to setup the mail account my customer provided me. Being a O365 Outlook account, I was approaching this with selecting Exchange as account type and signed in. This would have worked well, ...
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Emails disappearing from account after moving to folder
I am experiencing an odd issue when moving emails to folders. I am using Mail.app with an Office 365 account (IMAP).
Here is the sequence of steps that produces the issue for me:
Move email to a ...
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'Unable to verify account name or password.' when connecting Office 365 account on MacOS Mojave
I am struggling with the same issue raised here - "Unable to verify account name or password" on outlook.com Exchange server (browser works). It started after I updated MacOS to Mojave this ...
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Editing an outlook message on the iPhone
It appears that when I edit a message on the iPhone send it out to someone to read in the Outlook client, they don't see my edits? How do I fix this? We tested this a few times and seems to be ...
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How to find an older version of Microsoft Office 365 for MacBook 10.11.6
The harddisk of the MacBook crashed. Now I want te re-install Office 365, but the latest version needs 10.12.0. My MacBook (medio 2009) has El Capitan 10.11.6. more is not possible. Who knows a ...
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Keychain is getting crazy
I am not able to login to my either to OneDrive or my email on outlook.
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How to schedule send/receive in Outlook for Mac using Exchange Account
How can I turn off automatic incoming emails and instead receive new emails on a schedule only? For example, new emails at 10AM and 2PM.
Version: Outlook for Mac 16.13.1
Server Type: outlook....
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macbook pro Mac OS X 10.13.4 Office365 Bounce Spam Email
I get so much spam emails (you know the ones offering SEO, first page results for google etc etc.)
I've set up a few blocks in rules for Office 365 email but not sure I've done it correctly.
How can ...
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How can I access Office 365 (Private) Groups using Apple Mail?
My company just started using Office 365 Private Groups instead of distribution lists. While distribution lists worked fine in Mail.app, I can't seem to find any way to access Private Groups without ...
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Is there anyway to stop Microsoft Office 2016 on macOS prompting for update?
I want to stop this prompt:
Normally I’d encourage people to keep their system / app up-to-date, but there is only one word that can describe what Microsoft had done in Office for Mac: catastrophe.
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In Apple's Mail.app on macOS, when accessing Exchange email, is it possible to emulate the Other category from Office 365?
I use Office 365 to access my Outlook/Exchange email, and there are the automatic Focused and Other categories.
Is there a quick way to emulate the same when viewing Exchange email in Apple's Mail....
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Invitations sent to Gmail do not appear in Calendar while invitations sent to Office 365 do
When I receive meeting invitations to my Gmail account they appear as regular mails with an attachment. Opening the message in Gmail lets me add the event to my Google Calendar, making it appear in OS ...
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Office 365 installation stuck with one minute remaining on running package scripts
I wiped and re-installed macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 on an older MacBook Air (11″, 2013). Then I tried to download Office 365. It got as far as "one minute remaining" on "Running Package Scripts", ...
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Excel API data query - populates into a single column
I am trying to populate some data from an API call.
(Below is the process to get the same example)
Everything works fine until I hit the last button: all the data goes into the first column and does ...
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