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A productivity suite from Microsoft, for which about every 3 years a new major release becomes available, like in 2003, 2007, 20010, and 2013. It can only be run on Windows computers.

A productivity suite from Microsoft, for which about every 3 years a new major release becomes available, like in 2003, 2007, 20010, and 2013. It can only be run on Windows computers.

MS Office is made available in several distinct editions aimed towards different markets. All traditional editions of MS Office contain the core applications:

More advanced editions contain applications such as:

For more details on MS Office, refer to http://products.office.com

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Update Office without opening an Office application

How do you trigger an Office update without opening an office application? I need this to update Office after an offline install of o365, specifically in instances where Office needs to be updated between installing o365 apps and actually deploying…
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How to determine what has a lock on a particular file in Windows?

I see that a file has a lock on it. How could I find out the cause and root of this?
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Office 2010 silent activation after unattended installation

I've created an unattended install of Office 2010 using the OCT. We are using a MAK rather than KMS (not my decision). Is there a way to activate Office 2010 after the install? Even though the key is set during the install, it does not activate. I…
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How secure is the encryption used by Microsoft Office 2007?

I've read various articles about Microsoft's Office 2007 encryption and from what I gather 2007 is secure using all default options due to it using AES, and 2000 and 2003 can be configured secure by changing the default algorithm to AES. I was…
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Setting Out of Office message for someone else

On occasion, a member of our team calls in sick and is either unwilling, or unable, to set their Out of Office message in Exchange. What we've done in the past is just reset that user's password, give it to their manager, and have the manager set…
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Office 2013 Slow to Open/Save with Folder Redirection

We recently deployed folder redirection for a few individuals in the office. We are using a DFS Namespace share on a Server 2012r2 VM. We are redirecting Desktop and My Documents only. Clients are running 8.1 and 7. When using Word/Excel 2013,…
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Can OpenOffice replace MS Office?

We are starting to do some project and application roadmapping, and am thinking about OpenOffice (and StarOffice) as a replacement for OfficeXP and Office 2000, which is on the bulk of our PCs. Roughly 120 users and PCs OE Windows XP Pro on…
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MS Office shortcuts in start menu don't work on Vista

In Vista (Business), the shortcuts that are automatically added to the start menu (for recently run programs) don't work for MS Office programs. You click on them and nothing happens. Has anyone seen this and been able to solve it?
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Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013 install fails

Even though the Win7 desktop system does have 2013 products (Visio and Lync), trying to install Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013 fails with: Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2817430) 32-Bit Edition The expected version of the…
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Open Source MS Word Password Recovery?

Does anyone know of a free open source recovery tool? Should include recovery of document protection password ideally. EDIT: I'll settle for just Free instead of free and open source :) I'm looking for something that will handle not only passwords…
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Can MS Office Protected View be Disabled via GPO?

I'd like to disable the Protected View MS Office files open in when opening files from email and other non-local places. We have a mixture of Office 20007, 2010, and 2013 in place so if these are controlled via different GPOs, I would need each of…
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Deploying Office 2013 via GPO

Looking at potential ways to deploy Office 2013 via GPO. First and most obvious way is to run a startup script which calls the Office 2013 setup.exe. Problem here is what happens after it is installed, will that startup script keep re-installing…
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Is it a good idea to install Office 2007 on a server?

I noticed a lot of 3rd party SharePoint applications require that Office be installed on the server in order to function - PDF converters, for example. To me, this seems like a horrible idea. The overhead, update requirements, reboots, and…
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Cannot save Office files on shared network drive without delete permission

I have a group that ALL employees are assigned to. I have the CREATOR user set the same way. They have all the RW permissions but no delete. Everything works as expected, however, Office related products can't save. They throw a permission error. My…
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Microsoft Office documents collaboration - Open Source alternative

I am looking for a good solution to collaborate on Microsoft Office documents, we currently just edit directly on a Samba share but it's one big mess because sometimes people leave the office with their laptops while docs are open so swap files…
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