Microsoft Office

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Why can't I open .docx files?

For those of you who have inadvertently been sent a Microsoft Word document in the new .docx (x f...

How do I disable Microsoft Office Desktop Alerts?

If you’re interested in changing the behavior or just outright disabling Microsoft Office Desktop...

How can you open documents created in WordPerfect with MS Word?

If you have MS Word 2000 or higher, you’ll be able to open WordPerfect files and if the document ...

Windows 7/Office 2010 License Activation Issues

If you are experiencing problems with clients connecting to the campus KMS servers and you have c...

Microsoft Office Home Use Program

The Microsoft Home Use Program allows employees at eligible companies to buy an annual subscripti...

How do I enable special add-in and tools in Excel?

You can turn on certain tools in Excel such as data analysis tools or equation solving tools from...

Excel Tricks

How to Use INDEX+MATCH WithMultiple Criteria in 5 Easy Steps (includes Excel 2016) How To Use In...

How to Print Multiple files in MS Word

This link explains the process: Tech-Recipes (Warning: has ads)Note: To select multiple files cli...

Help with Microsoft Office Applications

Does anyone know if there is a campus group that provides assistance with setting up a database i...

Enabling Presenter mode in Powerpoint

Microsoft Powerpoint supports notes with each slide, yet the default slideshow view on most Power...

How to Create a Poster in PowerPoint

To create a poster in PowerPoint, design one “slide” with its page size set to the size of your p...

Microsoft OneNote for OS X

Microsoft is now offering OneNote for OS X 10.9 as a free download— Office Blogs, http://blogs.of...

Using Equation Editor in Word 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 has a new “ribbon” to replace conventional menus, and a new Equation Editor...

How to Import Scans of 35mm Slides into a PowerPoint Presentation

Older versions of PowerPoint cannot rotate imported scans. If you are using an older PowerPoint ...

How to disable auto resize of fonts within body text in PowerPoint

By default, PowerPoint will automatically adjust the font size of your body text on each slide de...

MS Word Replacing Characters with Line Breaks

You can use the Find and Replace in MS Word to replace any characters with a Line Break or other ...

How to merge data from Microsoft Excel into Microsoft Word

“In addition to the features and functions of Excel that make your database useful, you can also ...

Previously activated Office 2010 constantly loses activation

In some cases, a previously activated Microsoft Office 2010 installation may lose its activation....

Office 2010 (and Windows 7) Manual Activation

For manual activation of Office 2010 and Windows 7 through the campus KMS server:http://www.seasn...

PowerPoint Preferences / Options

Microsoft PowerPoint sets a large amount of default preferences which may not be in the best long...

Shrink PowerPoint Files

ProblemPictures added to PowerPoint are added in a non-optimized form. Consequently, large image...

Inserting a Macromedia flash animation into a Powerpoint presentation

One easy way to insert a flash animation into Powerpoint is to install Shyam’s Toolbox. It contai...

How do I convert a .docx file on a Mac OS X

By default, Office 2007 saves documents in a new XML format (.docx). Please follow the link belo...

How do I manually specify a KMS server to activate MS Office 2010

1. Launch a command window with elevated privileges.◦Type cmd in the search bar to locate the com...

In excel, how to I add a an external sheet to my current (or new) workbook?

You need to open both workbooks (or whatever workbook you want to copy from and to…)activate the ...

Sharing Office 365 calendar with an iOS device

To share an Office 365 calendar with a non-EM user (such as a g.ucla.edu or non-ucla account), fo...

Read mode in Microsoft Word

Some users have reported issues that documents they could previously edit in Word are no longer e...

Change the default save location in Microsoft Office

To customize the default save location in Microsoft Office. This may be particularly useful in la...