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Continual pop-up in Word 'Connecting to Office.Microsoft.com' asking for credentials

Starting today when running Word, I am continually receiving the ‘Connecting ....’ message below. I have been running Office Home/Student 2010 for the past 4 years and have changed nothing in that time. I have tried repairing Office but a file is…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | Windows
asked 2014-07-23T17:37:31+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Office 2013 themes missing

I now have a total of only 9 themes in Office 2013.  In the past there were dozens.  I teach a class on Microsoft Office and when students are asked to use a certain theme, they aren't finding them.  What happened?

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | Windows
asked 2015-01-23T17:04:02+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

"do not check spelling or grammar" will not stay unchecked

Hi - I have a document that's been merged from a lot of single documents. When I run spellcheck, I always get the "Text marked do not check has been ignored." So I go to Review, Language, Set Proofing Language, and there is no language set and…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | Windows
asked 2013-04-28T04:05:48+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers

Cannot open files from Windows Explorer

In order to open up files in excel 2013 (csv, xlsx, or xls) i must open them directly from within Excel. If I double click a file from Windows Explorer, Excel opens up but does not open the file. No errors. Just a **** excel instance. It looks like I…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Excel | For home | Windows
asked 2013-03-07T18:02:54+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Turn off paragraph collapse/expand arrows in word 2013

Hi - I'm not sure what it is called in Word 2013, but an arrow appears before a paragraph heading that allows you to collapse all text following the paragraph until it comes to another paragraph heading. Yeah - how do you turn this annoying feature off?…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | Windows
asked 2013-01-18T15:27:33+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Office 365 Activation Problem (0x80070005)

I just purchased a one month subscription for Office 365 Home Premium for 5 PCs and installed on my PC (Alienware M17XR4 Windows 7). Now whenever I try to activate my Office it fails and the error shown is - "We're sorry, something went wrong and we…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Install, redeem, activate | For home | Windows
asked 2013-05-03T13:11:47+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How to turn off "Microsoft Office Upload Center" in Office 2010

As stated, I've recently installed office 2010 32-bit on Windows 7 UltSP1.  Now I have an orange icon in the tray which highlights as "Microsoft office Upload Center" and I see no way to disable this "mini-app"  Any ideas?  I'm sure…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Install, redeem, activate | For home | Other
asked 2012-01-07T18:34:27+00:00
Anonymous
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How to disable Microsoft Upload Center 2013 ?

Hi, I uninstalled office 2010 and installed Office 2013. However now there is no way to stop upload centre from starting upon startup. There are no values for it under the startup tab in task manager or the registry startup sections. Strangely enough the…

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneDrive | For home | Windows
asked 2012-11-22T14:49:19+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Footnotes keep getting cut off and disappearing

I have recently tried to start using Word 2011 for academic purposes and as such am starting to require the ability to footnote my work. This works fine up to a point, however once I have added several footnotes to the text, they randomly start…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | Windows
asked 2011-11-15T00:59:07+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows 7

Does the picture manager come with Windows 7, because I can't find it.  Does it come with office 2010?  I would like to use it, and I do not like other photo editing programs.

Microsoft 365 and Office | Install, redeem, activate | For home | Windows
asked 2011-02-12T01:40:47+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

I'm unable to activate Office XP after upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7

I recently upgraded to Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (though since I upgraded from Windows XP technically I did a clean install of Windows 7). I'm in the process of re-installing all of my programs but I encountered a problem when attempting to activate …

Microsoft 365 and Office | Install, redeem, activate | For home | Windows
asked 2011-04-04T05:40:38+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How to enable synonyms in word

Hi, When am using Ms Word 2010, after typing a word  and trying to get synonyms of that word, it is not giving any list of synonyms. Every time it is searching though online. Previously when i used Ms Office 2007, it used to show me instantly i mean not…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | Windows
asked 2010-12-11T10:59:04+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Errors were detected while saving file in Excel 2010

I get the error "Errors were detected while saving 'C:\Users\Filename.xlsx. To make repairs in a new file, click continue. To cancel saving the file, click cancel" The appears to be no pattern to this. Does any have a solution. All similar…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Install, redeem, activate | For home | Windows
asked 2010-09-01T16:04:55+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers

Why does Outlook no longer show the original URL on hovering over a link in an email message?

Starting in 2019 sometime, Windows Outlook began showing the original URL on hovering over a link in an email message. Before that, it had only shown the rewritten safelinks version, which is very difficult to read and not at all helpful to someone…

Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For business
asked 2024-06-01T03:42:17+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers

Why is Outlook sending meeting updates to all attendees instead of only those added or deleted?

Hello, I am using Outlook client 1.2024.605.100 with M365. I understand that Microsoft has taken away the user option to send updates to all meeting participants or only those added to or deleted from the list instead of letting the organizer make the…

Outlook | Windows | New Outlook for Windows | For home
asked 2024-06-12T21:09:15+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers

My account has been hacked and subsequently locked - can I speak to someone to have it unlocked?

Dear Microsoft Community, I was on holiday earlier this month and made the mistake to logging into an unsecure WiFi. The result of this is that my email account was hacked and used to violate Skype's T&C's. As a result of the above my email account…

Outlook | Web | Outlook.com | Account management, security, and privacy
asked 2024-08-27T13:22:20+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Can't save new events neither edit my calendar

Hello, Since last thursday that I can't make any changes in my calendar. It says: "Something went wrong. We couldn't save your calendar event. Waiting a bit might help. Keep your calendar event open to try again later." This happens in my…

Outlook | Windows | New Outlook for Windows | For business
asked 2024-11-10T20:31:15+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers

No spelling suggestions in the right-click menu (New Outlook for Windows)

Split from this thread. I have had the same issue, but I have the Office 365 Outlook app actually loaded on my computer. It happened when I switched to the new view of Outlook. I am ready to switch back to the old view due to this feature not working.…

Outlook | Windows | New Outlook for Windows | For business
asked 2024-01-18T13:58:51+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers

Why are my contacts not coming up on the People panel in Outlook - completely blank.

When I click on my People / Contacts in Office, the left panel is completely blank (where my contacts should be). My emails are in the right panel from having clicked to People from Email. I am not able to see, add, or access my contacts at all in…

Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For business
asked 2024-01-26T21:55:03+00:00
Anonymous
48 answers

Add "Resend" email function back into New Outlook

Please add the resend email functionality back into the new version of Outlook. This feature is utilized by myself and my team all the time, as each week we make minor changes to the previous weeks emails. I don't want to forward each week's email…

Outlook | Windows | New Outlook for Windows | For home
asked 2024-02-28T01:01:34+00:00
Anonymous