Questions tagged [microsoft-office-2013]
Office 2013 is a perpetual license version of Microsoft Office for Windows. For questions about the subscription-based Office products, use [office365]
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Page numbers appear with hyphens in the Table of Contents in MS Word
Here is a downloadable sample of my Word document.
I have created a custom table of contents in my word document. However, the pages numbers in my "Table of Contents" appear with the hyphens ...
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How to get office back?
I want to get back my office 2013 which came pre-installed with my laptop. I did a clean install of windows. I got my windows back but didn't got office.
Note : Office was pre-installed so I have no ...
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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 /act
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
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PowerPoint 2013 email is opening in WordPad
Can't get PowerPoint attachment to open. It opens in WordPad all the time. I accidently answered a question and said yes to opening in WordPad.
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Stop "Welcome To Office" screen from appearing
A “Welcome to Office” window keeps popping up randomly days apart asking me to sign in. I want it to go away and I never and have never gone online when I use Office 2013 For Students (actually I only ...
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Double-blue underlines in MS Word
I have a document with an entire paragraph double-underlined in blue.
There's another post of the same name where a respondent says it's due to "wordiness." I do believe I'm looking at an example of ...
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Office 365 and office 2013 side-by-side
I have a recent dell XPS 13 (i7) running windows 10 and 4K internal and external monitors.
I have noticed that some programs run very slowly when they have to use 4K screen space. Office 365 is one of ...
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How does Office 2013's document locking work?
I've run into a couple of problems with files being locked/unlocked in Office 2013 in my company.
documents (Word/Excel files, mostly) are getting unlocked if not regularly saved. A user has a server ...
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How can one use a .tff font in Word 2013 as unpriviliged user without PowerShell?
I would like to use a font I have available as a .ttf file for one of my texts.
The obvious way to do that is to install the font system wide and use it that way.
Is there a different path one could ...
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Revert to a specific MS Office version using PowerShell on a "start with 1-click" install
I used sometimes ago a PowerShell command that makes an installed version of MS Office to revert to an older version, any of those referenced at Update history for Office 2013
But I don't remember ...
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Excel 2013 side-by-side sheet view
In Excel 2013, if I want to view different sheets from the same workbook side-by-side I first have to click View->New window otherwise the side-by-side option is greyed out.
After I click both New ...
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How to copy common settings across all installed MS Office applications?
I have installed MS Office 2013 on my system with following applications:
MS Word
MS Outlook
MS Excel
All these applications come up with their default settings. I want to change some of those ...
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MS outlook 2013 automatically closing and restarting continuously
MS Outlook 2013 automatically closes and restarts continuously. When I checked the Event Viewer, I found the below mentioned error. Kindly check and provide the solution for the same.
Faulting ...
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Customise Office 2013 elements in Windows 10
When I was on Windows 7 to customise elements that are installed with Office 2010 / 2013 I had to:
open "Add/Remove programs", find correct item and hit "Modify" button or
run installation program ...
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What is a "Promotional Version" of MS Office 2013?
I purchased a "Product Key" version of MS Office 2013. It arrived in a shrink wrapped box but I'm concerned with a sticker on the back (on the outside of the shrink wrap) which says:
Promotional ...
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Access.mdb not retaining original structure when saved
Our Access database currently in the .accdb format (Office 2013) retains a particular structure, showing all the project information on the left hand side (a long list cascading down the screen). Once ...
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Moving Excel document breaks hyperlinks URL format
Scenario: I am creating an Excel spreadsheet with file locations and using hyperlinks to open either the file or directory it is stored in.
Problem: I noticed when I hyperlinked a file it used ..\..\ ...
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Table of Contents based on numbered lists
I have a large document formatted with lists (numbered items) and I need to create a table of content based on these lists. The problem is that there is no heading style used so regular TOC doesn't ...
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Is it possible to "downgrade" the edition of office 2013 I'm using?
For the purpose of reproducing a bug, I want to install Office 2013 Standard Edition on my lab system. I can't seem to find that anywhere and it's not mentioned on MSDN / My Visual Studio.
Is it ...
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How to disable copy-as-image in Excel?
Recently it seems Excel has made copy-as-image default behaviour for the Ctrl+C hotkey (actually it seems to put the formatted text, table cell data, and a print-view image on the clipboard ...
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How to uninstall Office 2013 without the original installer?
I have a Office 2016 on my PC, but the ancient Office 2013 wasn't uninstalled and I removed the temporary install files so I don't have the installer to remove the program from my computer. I've ...
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Formatting stripped sending from Outlook 2016 and received on Outlook 2013
My company is in the process of upgrading to Office 2016. We have users who are on Office 2013 and are receiving formatted e-mails with the formatting stripped out. To the Office 2016 sender - ...
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Set a particular Office file to NOT autorecover
I am working on a very large Excel workbook as well as other workbooks. The data on the very large workbook should be read-only anyway (but I would still need to edit it to filter and such) so I want ...
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How do you remove the drawing canvas in Ms Word 2013?
I'm looking around for the option
in Word 2003 and eg 2010, it was tools..options..general..
http://msofficesupport.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/turn-drawing-canvas-on-or-off.html
"automatically create ...
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During a mail merge, how to send a single email to a user instead of multiple ones?
I have a table that looks somewhat like this:
User Email | Invoice Number | Company
[email protected] 12 xyz
[email protected] | 13 | yyy
[email protected] | ...
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What is Custom XML Data in MS Word Document - Office 2013
While inspecting a Word Document originally created in Office 2003 but opened and edited in Office 2013, the results show 'Custom XML Data' as an item that can be removed from the document.
What is '...
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Unable to find "Adobe PDF" resource files on Acrobat DC
For some reason, whenever I try to convert an MS Office file to a PDF (whether Word, PowerPoint, or Excel), I get the error in the title.
This is despite the fact that I can verify the relevant ...
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Excel 2013 Column Width Does Not Copy To New Sheet
EDIT 2: If i wasn't clear in the original post I have tried copying the entire sheet. I have tried copy-paste special - column width. As noted in a comment below, I have tried every way to copy and ...
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Install Outlook 2003 alongside Office 2013
I have several mails created earlier in outlook PST files compliant with 97-2003 format. I may need to just refer to them if required. These PSTs open in Office 2013 but give some weird errors on ...
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How to enable Powerpoint, Review, Start Inking in ribbon
I love the inking tool in Powerpoint, which I regularly use to highlight points of interest in screenshots.
But for mysterious reasons, sometimes the tool is missing in the ribbon:
After endless ...
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Can I remove an Office 2013 license key?
I activated Office many times with KMS. So, a lot of activation information has been generated. I want use ospp to unpack it, but it cannot find the last five digits of the product key.
https://...
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MS Visual C++ uninstalled, now Office '13 icons do not display properly
I have a user that uninstalled some (all?) of their 'Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable' programs and the OS (Win8.1 Pro x64) is somewhat broken now. All MS Office '13 programs work, but the icons ...
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How to view detailed Licensing Info about Office 2013 Installation on Windows?
On my Windows 7 laptop I have installed Office 2013 32 bit.
In Windows 7, the command cscript slmgr.vbs /dlv shows detailed licensing information about Windows installation.
From various internet ...
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In office 2013 can v2003 files be retained in their original 2003 format?
So far I have been using Office 2003 and I have lots of .xls files created in 2003 version.
Will they open seamlessly in Office 2013 and remain as 2003 format files? That’s how I want it to be but ...
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jump list gone after office update from 2010 to 2013
I recently updated from office 2010 to office 2013 and my jump list is gone for excel,word etc. I had saved the CustomDestinations and Automaticdestinations file. however this apparently does not help....
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Minimize the number of pages a table takes by adjusting column width
I have a Word document (.doc) containing a table which spans across 150 pages or so. Table cells contain long text lines which are word-wrapped to fit into given column width, making them multi-line. ...
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Windows 10 search shows office 2013 apps after upgrade to 2016
I've Googled as much as I could but I cannot seem to find a solution to this problem.
I've got a Windows 10 Pro system that had an activated (legal) copy of Office 2013 installed. I've used Office ...
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Disable hiding of the mouse cursor in Word 2013 when typing
Whenever I start typing, the mouse cursor disappears in Word 2013 on Windows 10. I understand that this is a feature, but it's incredibly annoying.
I went trough the options in Word but couldn't find ...
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Unable to Position Table in Word 2013
I have a table in Word 2013 which spans a page and a half and covers pretty much the full width. I would like a caption above the table which will remain attached (visibly) to it. By that, I mean, ...
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Fields in Word: OR function
I'm using fields for a complex mailmerge.
I'd like to use an OR function, but I can't seem to get it to work; if a=0 or a=""
I'm assuming I must follow the excel format; OR(a=0; a="")
I do find the OR ...
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Excel Macro issue
I have a very detailed and formula heavy workbook template that I use daily. I originally created it in Excel 2010.
I have several macro buttons I created that save certain ...
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Cell shading not shown when table rows break over pages
I have a table with several cells in the left columns merged to span large amounts of the table. This is to colour-code the cells the the right of them - different parts of the table are grouped ...
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MS Word 2013: path to local copies
I am using Microsoft Word 2013
Because I have a network share which is somewhat unreliable, I enabled the following option in File=> Options => Advanced :
Copy remotely stored files onto your ...
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Microsoft Office 15 Applications display errors when attempting to preview in Windows Explorer
In Windows Explorer (WIN 7 Pro SP1, 64-bit), if I click on a file belonging to any of the 3 Office programs that Explorer will preview in the Preview pane, I get an error, and no preview is generated.
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Office 2013 First Time Run video plays every time
I have a user running Office 2013 (32-bit) on Windows 7 Professional (SP1). Every time they open an Office application, they get shown the First Run video. Office is fully updated, and I have run a "...
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How to prevent Word 2013 from detecting a comma used as a thousands separator as a grammar mistake?
I have a text, which contains a lots of numbers, in which a comma is used as a thousands separator like this: 1,000, meaning one thousand. When I check spelling and grammar Word underlines these ...
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How to make excel SUMUP values of multiple rowkeys in a two-dimensional lookup to return sumed up values in a corresponding cell
So I have this challenge with a set of data arrangement and by merging the VLOOKUP and MATCH strings I was able to get my result but there is a little hiccup!
Pasted below is the merged string that ...
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Set Outlook 2013 font color in the registry
I want to set the default font color in Outlook 2013 via registry but I can't find the right key.
Do you guys have any idea?
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Is there a way to set my own Office 2013 background?
In Office 2013, in most of the applications, there is a general options page. On this page, there is a place to select an Office Theme and the Office background.
The Office Background give a list of ...
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Dragging recurring Calendar event from all day to a time slot does not change entire series
We currently are on Office 2013 with server side on 2013 Exchange as well. This question is on behalf of a staff member we support.
She explained that in the the past they were able to drag an all-...
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