Questions tagged [microsoft-office-2016]

Office 2016 is a perpetual license version of Microsoft Office for both Windows and Mac. For questions about the subscription-based Office products, use [office365].

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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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Office 2016 Advanced Setup

I just started the Office 2016 Setup/Installation on my Windows 10 PC. The installation worked fine and started automatically showing only this dialog: But there are no additional settings possible! I need to choose which programs I want to install…
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Uninstall individual Office 2016 programs

I installed Office Professional Plus 2016 on my windows 10 system. When I installed it, it didn't give me an option of which office programs to install, like it did in the 2010 version (ex. word, excel etc.). The only program I will use is office…
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What connection does MS Office have to Netscape Navigator?

While poking around in the registry, I noticed a Netscape Navigator key at the following: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Netscape\Netscape Navigator That key contained two more keys "Suffixes" and "Viewers"; both referenced application/ppt, /msword,…
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Word hyphenation feature is not available

When opening a Document in Word 2016, I always get the following error message Word hyphenation feature is not available. Run the Microsoft Office Setup program, install this feature an then try again But there is no such option to add the…
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How to resolve "You cannot install the 32/64 bit version of Microsoft Access Database Engine because you currently have 64/32 bit Office"

Got a bit of chicken and egg here; if I try to install Access Database driver 64-bit version, I see: You cannot install the 64-bit version of Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 because you currently have 32-bit Office products installed. If you…
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Multiple instances upon opening multiple Office Documents

Starting with Version 16.0.8625.2121 of Office (tested with Word and Excel) - when you select multiple documents in the Explorer and hit Enter to open them, you will end up with instances to the count of the previous selected documents. To reproduce…
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Outlook 2016 View Plain Text Email in Font like Courier

I want to view all plain text email messages in a font like courier where each letter takes the same amount of space. (Computer generated reports are a mess to look at otherwise.) Anyone know how to change this setting in Office 2016?
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How to disable Outlook 2016 search history?

I just updated to Office 2016. I'm not a fan of the recent search dropdown list when you click on the search box in Outlook (refer to image posted below). Does anyone know how to disable this?
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How to transfer office activation to another account?

I have bought two licenses for Office 2016 Home & Student (the permanent licenses, not the 365 subscription). Due to some auto-signup, cookies and product-keys-encoded-in-a-url supplied by the vendor and also my ignorance regarding the…
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How to disable hyperlink security notice in OneNote 2016?

Every time I open a link to a local file in OneNote 2016, I get this annoying popup: There used to be a setting in the Trust Center to disable this, but it no longer exists in Office 2016 I also tried adding a DisableHyperlinkWarning regedit key,…
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Office Deployment Tool won't recognise downloaded install files and tries to re-download

I'm trying to install Office 2016 (business subscription) using the Office Deployment Tool 2016 (ODT) from a pre-downloaded install package. Microsoft Support have supplied me with the 1.06GB installation package, which I have downloaded and placed…
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Word count for only section of document

I know it is possible to add a word count field (NUMCOUNT) to a document to create a dynamic word count, but is it possible to limit the word count to only a section of the document? I need a solution which does not use Macros/VBA.
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How to completely remove account and data from Outlook 2016 for OS X?

I would like to know how to completely remove account and all of its related data from Outlook 2016 for OS X. The account can be removed from preferences of Outlook 2016. But where are all data stored that should be deleted in order to be sure that…
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Pixelated font in Word/Outlook, but not Excel/Access (Office 2016)

I'm confused as to why my computer shows fonts looking slightly different of Word and Outlook when compared with Excel and Access all on Office 2016 This screenshot shows Calibri size 11 in Excel on the left and Outlook on the right. Looking…
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