Questions tagged [microsoft-office]

Application suite from Microsoft which includes always Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Depending on what edition of Microsoft Office you have you can also have OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access.

Recent Versions of Microsoft Office

Stand-alone license/version for Windows

Subscription based license/version for Windows and MacOS

In addition to the stand-alone Office installations/versions Microsoft also offers a subscription license called Microsoft 365. Microsoft 365 installations offer continues updates to the latest Office version. Although the newest stand-alone versions usually offer the same features as Microsoft 365 they are two software products develop separately.

Microsoft 365 also incorporates all of the cloud-based "software as a service"-products like etc. Usually, with more features when compared with their free counterparts.

Stand-alone license/version for MacOS

There are also versions for OS X, generally grouped under , or individually:

Applications Included in Microsoft Office

Unless your question pertains to Microsoft Office as a whole or the integration between Microsoft Office programs, it is best to use one of these tags instead:

Alternatives to Microsoft Office / Microsoft 365

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How do I change the language of all Powerpoint slides at once?

I want to change the proofing language of all my slides in a Powerpoint. I've tried setting the language via the Language Preferences menu, however this only changes it for new powerpoints.
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Disable Microsoft Office Upload Center

With Microsoft Office 2013 and 2016, Microsoft Office Upload Center runs automatically and shows up in the system tray. I don't use it and want stop it from running. How can I remove that program completely?
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How do I get rid of all caps ribbon titles in Office 2013?

Installed Office 2013 on Windows 8 today. It's great, except for one thing, the all caps ribbon titles are inconsistent with the title case titles everywhere else in Windows 8. Is there a registry setting that will let me change this?
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Turn off Microsoft apps 'Microsoft AutoUpdate' app on a Mac

Microsoft used to just do a system notification you could easily disable. Now they launch the Microsoft AutoUpdate program process once per day. This interrupts whatever you are doing to put the focus on the auto update app – watching a show?…
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Can I delete MSOCache?

I need more space on my SSD drive and I found that MSOCache is occupying 1.3 GB. I have Microsoft Office 2010 installed. Can I safely delete MSOCache?
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Export PowerPoint to PDF with each animation on a separate slide

I have a PowerPoint presentation where I extensively use simple animations, only appear/disappear effects triggered by the mouse (not time based), without any smooth transitions. Is it possible to export a PDF where every single step of the…
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Excel Conditional Formatting Escaping a Question Mark

I would like to use a conditional formatting rule in an excel file that would color any box with a question mark in it red. It seems that Excel is using a question mark as a wild card and will turn all cells with at least one character in them red.…
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Outlook does not show desktop notifications on a message receive if e-mail is transfered to another folder with a rule

I have a number of accounts in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, a folder for each and a rule which moves message for appropriate folder. Also it has to show a desktop notification. But it doesn't! I have enabled an option to showing notification for…
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How to force the Outlook rule to be server-side?

Using Outlook 2010 with a corporate Exchange Server. The rule I want to create is this: After rule arrives from Blah@blah.com and with Passed in the subject Move it to the SuccessBuilds folder and mark it Read. When I did that, the…
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Keeping a whole table on one page

I have a MS Word 2010 document with many small tables. I would like to prevent those tables from breaking up over pages. I know it is possible to prevent a single row to break up. But I would like the following: How can I prevent a table from…
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How do you customize Excel 2010 keyboard shortcuts?

How do you customize Excel 2010 keyboard shortcuts? This article from microsoft.com provides instructions for "Microsoft Office 2010" but seems only apply to Word, not Excel. http://www.microsoft.com/athome/organization/compshortcuts.aspx In…
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Tab key in Microsoft Word does not increase indent in bullet lists

I create a bullet list, of any type and after pressing Enter then Tab instead of increasing the indent it just injected white-space. I'm using the default template (.dot), there's been no changes to it, can't see any misconfigured settings for this…
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What type of file is ~$file?

When I had opened msoffice file that I had previously saved on my desktop, I saw another kind of file named ~$doc. What type of file is this ? I have marked both the files.
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Where is a database shape in Visio?

I am trying to document an architecture in Visio, and I can't find a shape for a database. I see servers, clients, etc. - but no database.
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