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Arial always shows up as italic in Microsoft Office applications (incl. WordPad)

This problem arose suddenly. Whenever I try to write Arial in any Microsoft Office application (including WordPad) the text appears italic. Changing it to italic and back just does nothing, the text...

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Uninstalling Microsoft Office, which isn't installed

My Dell G5 comes pre-installed with some sort of trial/partial version of Office. (Opening it requires me to enter a license key, which I don't have.)Evidence that office is installed:Click start >...

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Can't install Visio 2016, "the following products can not be installed at the...

I'm trying to install visio 2016 (licence for 5 installs, but only 3 have been used so far) on a office PC but when I do I get this error message:I thought I this was because office 2010 was installed...

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Change Office 2016 setup log directory to custom location

I can't seem to figure out how to change the default Office setup.exe log location from C:\users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\SetupExe(blablabalbaba).log to somewhere else locally on the disk. This...

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Microsoft Office 2016 access to offline documentation

We just got Microsoft Office 2016 installed on a secure system without Internet access. When we try to use Help it tries and fails to go online. How do I get the offline help to work?(Note I had the...

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Word always shows markup/comments automatically when opening a document, even...

Office Word automatically opens this comment section whenever I open the file, until I select No Markup in the section that says Simple Markup.But it is annoying to have to do this every time I open a...

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Outlook refuses to work without Cached Exchange Mode

I have a shared Windows 7 computer with Office 2010 on it that dozens of people use. That computer has a disk space problem on it. >60% of the hard drive space is being wasted on Outlook OST files....

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Excel remove document recovery pane?

I tried a few registery tweaks but that doesnt seem to work. I use a batch script that switches between 2 excel sheets, but it forces closure of the excelsheet. This makes it so the Document recovery...

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Hours turned/paid/worked

I am attempting to create an Excel sheet that provides a few calculations based on three things:Hours turned by specific technician (4 different techs)Amount of hours worked by each tech (up to 8...

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Import EML emails into Outlook 2010 64-bit

Evening everyone. I'm helping setup a small office network, where a number of old PC's are being replaced with new ones with a 64-bit copy of Outlook 2010. The old emails were stored in Windows Live...

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Skip animations on current slide in PowerPoint

This is most likely a fairly simple question but I could not find any answers when I looked around (might be just me who is not really good at googling).I have a fairly long powerpoint presentation...

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Access Denied to local document, offering to request permission on SharePoint

A colleague of mine has encountered this error while trying to access a document on a file share.Access DeniedYou do not have access to view this file. Would you like to request for permission on...

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Syncing OneNote does not work with Office 2013

I have Office 2013 both at home and at office and I am logged on to both machines. Now, when I want to sync some of the notes from Home and Office then I basically went to File> Settings>Sync but...

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Inverted question mark only on Microsoft Office applications

My dad has a notebook and the key which has the "/?°" symbols acts like ctrl. Known factory problem. Anyway, his keyboard also has a "?" marked under the "w" key.Pressing ctrl+alt+w will display the...

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Links to Network Shares not opening in Outlook

When clicking a shared network file path (\\server-1\) from an email message in Outlook, there are 3 dots that go across the top of the message window like Outlook is thinking about opening the link...

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Error message when I try to install Microsoft Office 2003 to my new computer...

This is the error code I get: Error 1919. Error configuring ODBC data source: Visual FoxPro Database, ODBC error 6: Component not found in the registry. Verify that the file Visual FoxPro Database...

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How can I type in uppercase only in LibreOffice?

I know that I can use Format -> Text -> Case in LibreOffice to change text to uppercase when it is selected afterwards, but I would like to type directly in uppercase all the time, without having...

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Jump Lists not showing for Office programs in Windows 7

I have a laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium. I installed Office 2010 on this laptop, and I noticed that Jump Lists were not showing. If I pin Word, Excel or PowerPoint to the taskbar or start menu,...

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How can I set-up a custom location for Office 2021 LTSC updates (X-Post)

(Cross Posted on Stack Exchange https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78342564/how-can-i-set-up-a-custom-location-for-office-2021-ltsc-updates)Afternoon all, I'm working on setting up an install process...

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How to resolve: "You cannot install the 32/64 bit version of Microsoft Access...

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 DatabaseEngine 2016 because you currently...

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Repair an Access database from the command line

I just solved an issue after about a week of headaches: I had an Access 97 database which I could not open with anything (Access 2007, Excel 16 importing, etc). It would say "The operation is invalid...

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kms activation fails with office 2013

I've been trying to activate my office 2013 via my kms server manually and I get:C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript OSPP.VBS /actMicrosoft (R) Windows Script Host Version...

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To ensure "Date Modified" doesn't change, want to open all Word and Excel in...

In order to avoid OneDrive Office documents'"Date Modified" field changing whenever I open and navigate a doc, I want all OneDrive and OneDrive for Business documents to open in Read-Only or Protected...

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Microsoft Azure Information Protection pops up when access an Office...

When launching any Office 2019 desktop application, I started seeing two back-to-back popups that looked something like this:When entering my usual personal email address, I received the error message:...

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Why is my Excel 2010 window always on top?

I guess I have exactly the same issue as this poster, but in Excel.Does anyone have a solution to this?

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How to move some mails from Outlook.com to free up some space while keeping...

Due to the recent policy changes to the Outlook.com, i.e. 5GB limit on attachment, my email account is running out of space online, and I’m thinking to move some mails offline to free up some space.If...

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How to add VBA to MS Office installation

I am missing VBA on my Office 2016 installation (installed via Office deployment tool). When attempting to open Visual basic for Applications (Alt + F11) nothing happens. The Macros options are greyed...

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Cancelling an attendee's meeting invite without notification in Outlook 2016

I have a really nasty suspicion that my boss sneaked in behind me and cancelled an important meeting on my Outlook 2016 calendar which I had accepted and was supposed to be attending alongside him. My...

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Slide show running on a secondary monitor pauses when focus changes

I have observed that if we change the focus (from the slide show) while running a slide show, which is set to advance automatically (in a secondary monitor) the slide show pauses automatically....

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What does this icon on a meeting in Outlook mean? [closed]

What does this icon mean on a meeting/event?

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