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  1. J

    Microsoft Releases Office 2024 Perpetual Version

    Microsoft appears to have just released their newest non-subscription version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite (Microsoft Office 2024) to replace Office 2021 on macOS and Windows, with 5 years of security update support following release. It's good that they are at least still...
  2. D

    After a Sequoia update, has anyone else had to manually set Word and Excel as the default apps for opening .docx and .xlsx files?

    As per the subject line; neither Word nor Excel were recognised as standard apps for these file types and I had to do it manually (and against the advice that it wasn't known that these apps would open these files). I have had to do this on more than one machine, both with Intel (i7) and Mac...
  3. jent

    macOS pops up with OneDrive.app window every now and then

    I'm on macOS Monterrey 12.6.8. Every now and then for a second or two I see a Finder window pop up, I think related to the security settings, mentioning that it is checking OneDrive.app. I have Microsoft Office 365 installed but I don't personally use the OneDrive app (I very occasionally use...
  4. DominikHoffmann

    Latest OS able to run Microsoft Office 98

    Which version of Mac OS X/OS X is the latest version that can run Microsoft Office 98?
  5. Open-Source-Norange

    Best Office Suite? (MS Office vs iWork)

    I like to dabble in both of these two suites for work and school, but ultimately, I am wondering which one I want to stick to in the long run. The MS Office and the iWork suites work pretty similarly for me for casual use, but which would be better in the long run (cost, availability, features...
  6. randyleytan

    Issues with Microsoft Office Word's icon.

    Hey everyone, so for a while, I have been noticing this issue with Word. Normally when you save a file it would look like this (I have Office 365): But ever since I Office on my Mac the icons for Word files look like this compared to the rest of the Office programs: Does anyone else have...
  7. M

    How do I permanently uninstall Microsoft AU Daemon?

    From time to time, I keep getting this notification, even if I delete it. I tried deleting it from Notifications in System Preferences. The Microsoft Office is installed from the App Store, I previously had it installed from Microsoft website. I think I uninstalled it using AppCleaner...
  8. davekro

    How to fix corrupt Excel for Mac 2019 files?

    Google has been useless inturning up how to repair the MS Office for Mac 2019 (and 2016 before this) issues. Excel has been getting more and more buggy and crashing way more recently. I had significant problems with MS Office 2016 for Mac that I was unable to fix so I upraded to 2019 for Mac...
  9. N

    Word 2011, Libre Office, and Pages

    Hi. I have a 2012 mac mini and I recently upgraded to High Sierra. Now, Microsoft Word and other 2011 Office applications crash upon application start up. So I went ahead and installed Libre Office, both the latest build and the last stable release, same thing - crash at start up. I figured...
  10. S

    Keyboard lag on 12.9 iPad pro

    Hi all, I picked up a 12.9 iPad pro with smart keyboard. I found I was getting keyboard lag in Microsoft Word when using track changes. Unfortunately because I bought the machine nearly two weeks before I didn't have much time to play around with the machine before losing my return window. So...
  11. S

    Lost Office files after upgrading to High Sierra

    When I upgraded my MacBook Pro to High Sierra, the Microsoft product icons are marked as “?” and I am not able to run MS office on my Mac. Did I lose the icons only? Please help me with the immediate solution as I need to do some important tasks.
  12. wrembry

    Touch Bar in Google Docs?

    Hey everyone! So I love using the text editing features that appear on the touch bar when typing in Pages, Word, or other text boxes that allow for the use of bold, italicized, underlined, and other text editing and customization features. For some reason, though, MacOS doesn't show these...
  13. TugThorburn

    Any Way To Permanently Remove PowerPoint Themes?

    Hi everyone, This is my first time actually posting a question to this forum, so I hope I'm in the right place. I was wondering if anyone knows of away to permanently remove the PowerPoint themes from my Ribbon. I have PowerPoint version 15.37 for MAC. Would love to get rid of those useless...
  14. areskins

    All iPads MS Office 2016 vs Office 365

    Hi, I'm very interested in going ipad only in college and my question is there a difference between MS Word and Excel when buying Office 2016 compared to the ipad versions in office 365? Are the ipad versions (office 365) inferior to the laptop/desktop versions (full MS Office)? I'll be using...
  15. ivanicin

    Speech Central - Fully Featured Text To Speech Suite

    Speech Central is a fully featured text to speech suite for Mac. It has a full support for the web, text documents (pdf, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, email etc) and e-books (epub and fb2). You can bookmark important paragraphs and mark important documents as favorite. All items are stored...
  16. RevanUK

    Resolved Transfer Microsoft Office to new Mac

    5 years ago, I bought a MacBook Pro and installed Microsoft Office 2011 on to it from a disc that cost about £100 I think. This week, I'm getting the new MacBook because my Pro is old and slow now. I was wondering how I get Microsoft Office on my new MacBook. Would Time Machine do it? Or can I...
  17. poiihy

    OpenDocument format vs Microsoft Office format

    Both OpenDocument (odt, ods, odp, odg, odf) and Microsoft Office format (docx, docm, xlsx, xlsm, pptx, pptm) are universal and equivalent so I am wondering which one I should choose. What do you think?
  18. A

    Universal Best Productivity App For IOS

    MobileOffice - Word Processor and Reader for Microsoft Office Description THE BEST DOCUMENT EDITING AND MANAGEMENT SUITE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD. + Create and Edit Documents on your iPhone or iPad. + Create and Edit Spreadsheets + Scan documents and convert to PDF + Create Hand-Written notes...
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    Word Header/Footer Gallery Disappeared

    I have Word 2011 and when I try to insert a header or footer template into my Word doc, the gallery is empty. I have found fixes involving building blocks.dotx files for Windows users, but can't seem to find much help for Macs. Please can someone shed some light!? There must be a way to fix...
  20. 0

    Office apps upload blank docs to Google drive

    Now this might not be an iPad issue but I've only encountered it on my iPad Pro, so I thought I'd post it here. When I create a word document or a PowerPoint on my iPad Pro I try to save it to my google drive as that is where I store everything. But whenever I do this the document or...