Questions tagged [office365]

A set of subscription based software services that require monthly or periodic payment of fees to Microsoft Corporation.

A set of subscription based cloud software services built around the Microsoft Office platform for businesses, developed and maintained by Microsoft Corporation.

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A bug in Excel? Conditional formatting for marking duplicates also highlights unique value

If I let Excel highlight two duplicate values PT_INTERNAL2859736, then also unique value *736 gets highlighted. Why this happens and how can I stop highlighting the unique value as duplicate? I thought the Duplicate Values rule is reliable until I…
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Outlook 2016 ctrl-arrow key navigation not working

I have a problem in the email-editor in Outlook 2016. Normally I can use ctrl-left arrow and ctrl-right arrow to move the cursor in the editor by a word. This works in every text field on my PC except in Outlook. I am at a loss to what setting can…
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How to open Office 365 documents in "Viewing" mode by default?

Is there a way to open Word, Excel, or Powerpoint documents in 'Viewing' mode by default? This option seems to be in online apps only and working in the context of Microsoft Teams (i.e. part of an organisation). I usually work with documents shared…
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Outlook 2013 not showing emails older than aprox. 6months old in any folders

I migrated a VP of our company to Office 365 and now he's not seeing emails in folders that there should be. The problem seems to affect all folders but only emails after about 6-12 months old. Other "clues" I've found are: Emails can be seen from…
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Downloading a local copy of One Note from Office 365 Online

I have a One Note notebook saved through Office 365 Online. I would like to download a local copy but am having trouble. I've tried going to One Drive and downloading it through there, but it downloads a zip with a text file saying it cannot be…
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How to enter Username of IMAP Account in Outlook 2016

I want to add a new email account to Outlook 2016. I cannot find any input field where I can add a username. Obviously Outlook takes the email address as username - but this is not accepted by my hosting provider. This is the dialogue for adding an…
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What is this 14-digit time format from Windows registry?

Microsoft Office 365 saves information in the registry about what time it last searched/downloaded/applied updates in a format like this: Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\office\ClickToRun\Updates' | select…
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How to disable "clutter" feature in office 365

I'm using office 365 for business. A couple of weeks ago I got an email introducing the new "clutter" feature with a "click here to configure" button saying that if I didn't do anything, the feature would not be enabled. I deleted the email and the…
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How do I view outlook 365 calendar in gmail calendar

There appear to be a thousand articles on how to view gmail calendars in outlook365, but I cannot seem to find any on doing the other way around. I want to see an outlook365 calendar (my workplace) overlaid or imported, or whatever on my gmail…
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How do you show a list of attendees in an Outlook 2013 calendar event?

A coworker recently enabled an extra view inside Outlook, so that when he opens up a meeting on his calendar he immediately sees a list of the people attending the meeting. How do you enable this in Outlook 2013? (I know you can simply switch to…
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Mount SharePoint Online (Office 365) in Linux

We have started using SharePoint Online included with our Office 365 subscription. Our windows users can install software that automatically syncs the Shared Documents from SharePoint to their Windows computers. How do I enable my Linux (Ubuntu)…
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How to compare two Excel files with Microsoft 365

As file conflicts can easily occur in the new and shiny world of SharePoint/OneDrive-based Excel 365 it is important to be able to compare different versions of a file. All info I found online talks about older versions of Excel. How can I compare…
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How to filter Outlook email using a Rule with a VBA script?

Certain things are not possible using the default e-mail rules like searching subjects or message bodies with wildcards. You can do multiple words but it's not the same if you need the words one character away from each other. How can I write my own…
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Disable animations in office 365

Is there any way to disable the animations that Microsoft has enabled by default in office 365? It seems that ticking 'Turn off all unnecessary animations (when possible)' no longer does the trick. It was working fine around 2 days ago, and then it…
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Access Office 365-directory using LDAP

My company runs internal e-mail-traffic using Outlook 365. I prefer using a proper e-mail client (in my case: thunderbird) via IMAP and SMTP, which is no problem since the server adresses are provided in the Outlook 365 settings dialogue. Now, I…
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