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Questions tagged [microsoft-office-2011]

Office for Mac 2011 is the counterpart of Office 2010 for Windows. It is available as a perpetual license only. For questions about the subscription-based Office products, use [office365].

Applications Included in Microsoft Office for Mac 2011

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I have registered MS Office 2011 for Mac and spelled the company name incorrectly, how do I change it?

I have registered MS Office 2011 for Mac and spelled the company name incorrectly. Is there anyway of changing it, or do I have reinstall?
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Accidentally clicked "Don't save" in new Word document

After accidentally closing a new document without saving, on Windows I feel I might have a chance at finding temporary files. On a Mac with MS Office 2011 is there somewhere I might find a scratch file for a document that was never saved?
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How to create a "poll" in Microsoft Outlook 2011

Is it possible to create a vote/poll in a message in Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac OS X? Here's an example of how it could be done in Windows version of Outlook.
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Font Awesome doesn't work in MS Office on OS X 10.6

I've just installed Font Awesome as a system font on my Mac (OS X 10.6.8), and it doesn't seem to work in Microsoft Office 2011 (14.2.3). It installs correctly, appears in Font Book, and works as expected in TextEdit, Evernote, and LibreOffice; but…
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What is the keyboard shortcut for dropdown that appears when you paste text?

Is there a keyboard shortcut to activate the dropdown that appears when you paste text in Word 2011 for Mac? (Equivalent to Alt+Shift+F10 in Word 2007 on Windows, or Ctrl in Word 2010 on Windows.)
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Decreasing table row height in Word 2011 (possibly specific issue with end of row formatting)

I am working with a Microsoft Word 2011 (for Mac) document with some tables that have small row heights (what I want), and some tables with larger row heights (that I want to change). The "incorrect" tables were pasted into the document. When I…
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How do I permanently close the master document toolbar in Word 2011?

When working with documents in outline view in Word 2011 it occasionally opens a "Master Document" toolbar in-between the Mac menu and the document. When it does it resizes the document window a bit to fit the toolbar: How do I permanently get rid…
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Microsoft Office 2011 Mac - Removing individual components

I've installed 2011 fully but now need to remove Office, Messenger and maybe some other components. How can I do it in correct way, so it will clean up all related data.
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Office for Mac 2011 does not start, how do I repair the database?

After a TimeMachine restore; Office 2011 is having kittens over permissions it would seem. Having attempted a 'repair' out of Disk Utility, am still seeing: there is a problem with the Office database upon startup, after which Word/Excel work…
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Excel formula daily average of weight

I am looking to set up an excel spreadsheet to calculate cattle weight gain per day. We weigh our cattle once a week so column A will be a date and Column B will be the weight on that day(day of the week may change). I want excel to give me the…
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Getting CHAR function to return multiple characters in Excel 2011

I'm using Office 2011 on Mac. I'm trying to write a formula to strip lower-case characters (and ideally spaces as well, but that's less important) from text in a cell. The purpose is to convert names to initials; thus "Jane" would become "J",…
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Is there any way to make Outlook 2011 automatically run all rules?

I'm using Outlook 2011, coming form Gmail, and want to have it automatically run all rules. I'd prefer if I can set triggers like "once a minute" or "when an email arrives" or "when email category changes". Is this possible? I'm not against using…
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Hiding Table Borders in Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac

I want to see the table borders in the document when I am editing it but not when I go to print the document. I am using Microsoft Office 2011 on a MacBook Pro. Is there any way to do this? Aside from the obvious option of turning off the borders…
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Office 2011 unable to display image

I am working in an office using Macs running Office 2011. One of our colleague's found out today that when opening a pptx file, it had a red X instead of the embedded images, just like; RED X instead of graphics. Perhaps my Google fu is not good…
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I keep losing a custom bullet style in Word 2011 (on a Mac)

I have set up a custom bullet using a graphic (tried using gif, jpg and png file formats). However, when I quit out of Word and then reopen the document, the custom bullet has lost the graphic. The custom bullet style is listed in the style sheet,…
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