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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Disable Microsoft Office Upload Center
With Microsoft Office 2013 and 2016, Microsoft Office Upload Center runs automatically and shows up in the system tray. I don't use it and want stop it from running.
How can I remove that program ...
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How do I get rid of all caps ribbon titles in Office 2013?
Installed Office 2013 on Windows 8 today. It's great, except for one thing, the all caps ribbon titles are inconsistent with the title case titles everywhere else in Windows 8. Is there a registry ...
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Is it possible to disable smooth movement of the cursor in Office 2013/windows 10?
In office 2013 under windows 10, the text cursor appears to glide across the page smoothly, instead of advancing a character width at a time when I'm typing. I actually find this rather disconcerting, ...
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Disable Excel 2013 cell animation
When clicking into a cell of a Excel 2013 sheet, the green border of the cell is animated while moving from the current cell to the new one.
This is really disturbing. How can I disable this ...
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"Incompatible Office products are installed on your machine" when opening Office documents or browsing OneDrive or SharePoint Site
I'm running Office 2013 Pro Plus 32-bit (MSI-based) on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. When trying to open an Excel, Word, or PowerPoint documents I get this error message:
Sorry, we can't perform this ...
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How to stop "Send to OneNote" window from showing when I start OneNote 2013
When I start OneNote 2013, this window pops up in the background.
How do I prevent this?
(I do want to use the keyboard shortcuts, but I just don't want this window to open.)
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How to disable smooth/fluid scrolling in office 2013 (Excel/Word)?
Today I've upgraded to Office 2013 (from 2010). First thing I noticed is that both Excel and Word (haven't tried other apps) use smooth/fluid scrolling when using the mouse scroll wheel. I haven't ...
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Lync 2013 Does Not Maintain IM Window Size Or Position
I am using Windows 7 64-bit and I just upgraded from Lync 2010 to Lync 2013.
In Lync 2010, after you closed an IM, the next IM opened would be the previous IM's size and position. From my ...
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Can't sign in to Office and OneNote can't connect to SkyDrive in Windows 8.1
The OneNote issue
Since I installed Windows 8.1 I can't open my OneNote notebooks stored on SkyDrive with OneNote 2013.
When I try to open a notebook in OneNote, I get the following error:
We can'...
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Transparent background in Visio 2013
I'm using Visio 2013 and I'm not able so save my drawings with a transparent background (background always ends up with white color)
The sheet background is "no background".
When I click "save as ....
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How to change the Body font in Outlook
I'm running Outlook 2013 and I was wondering how I can change the default font for email messages. Normally in Word 2013 what I do is edit the "Normal" font style to the font that I want and select ...
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How can I print to OneNote without splitting the document?
I've noticed with longer pdf's, after sending to OneNote with Print and selecting a Page to insert to, OneNote ends up splitting my document into its own page and subpages (1 for each page). I want ...
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How to add page header with a black horizontal line in Office Word 2013?
I simply need header like this:
but with a black horizontal line instead of a blue one. How to do this in Word 2013?
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How to get rid of prompts for credentials connecting to proxy Server officeimg.vo.msecnd.net in Office 2013?
I have experienced this issue mainly with Excel, Word and Powerpoint 2013, where there is constant pop-up box asking for login credentials as it tries to connect to officeimg.vo.msecnd.net
I have ...
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Prevent Office 2013 from creating "Custom Office Templates" directory in My Documents
Office 2013 keeps creating the directory C:\Users\user\Documents\Custom Office Templates. I like to keep My Documents tidy for quick access.
Is there anyway to prevent Office from continually re-...
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