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A productivity suite released by Microsoft in January 2007. It was offered in eight editions, and contained updated editions of twelve applications. Office 2007 can only be run on Windows computers, and contains only 32-bit applications. It is the successor to Office 2003, and was succeeded by Office 2010.

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What determines the name of registry entries under \Outlook\Resiliency\DisabledItem?

I'm trying to script a way to re-enable a specific Outlook add-in via the registry (Outlook UI isn't an option since it's locked down for users). I know the general location I need to remove a reg ...
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Office error after server upgrade

I have a problem that I am stumped on.. I upgraded my server 2003 to server 2008 enterprise. So far I am only having one problem.. All my programs work besides office 2007. When I click on it it ...
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Send mail merge from a distribution group

Is it possible to send a mail merge from Word 2007 from a distribution group such as sales@domain.com? The specific user is setup under exchange 2010 to send on "behalf" of this group but I can't find ...
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Installing MS Office 2007 in a Windows Server 2003 makes server more vulnerable?

In a Windows Server 2003, a asp.net web application needs to convert Word documents to PDF. For that functionality, developers were asking to install MS-Office 2007 in our Windows Server 2003. My boss ...
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Server 2008 Service can't connect to executable

I have a service that is used for converting MS Word documents to PDF's. This service has worked well on some systems yet been unresponsive on others. The service starts an executable (which has been ...
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How can I remotely/administratively confirm if an Outlook add-in is deployed and enabled on user systems?

I have an Outlook COM add-in / Exchange Client Extension that is installed on user desktops. Occasionally over-zealous security measures on Office can disable this add-in. Is there a way I can ...
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How can I disable Windows file locking on Samba shares?

When I open a Microsoft Office file from one of my Samba shares and then I disconnect and reconnect from the network I have to save my files as a copy because the file was somehow changed to read-only....
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Office 2007 Installer Not Logging When Run During Startup Script

I'm using a startup script to deploy Microsoft Office 2007 Standard. It's not working quite right and I'm trying to find logging information for it. Unfortunately, no log is being generated by setup. ...
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Deploy Office 2010 after uninstalling Office 2007 via Group Policy

I'm trying to automate the uninstall/install of Office. Removing 2007, installing 2010. I've downloaded the OCT and made changes as I needed. In there I can select, "Remove the following earlier ...
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Where can I download Microsoft Office? [closed]

Here at our company, we've lost our install CDs for Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007. We have, however, still our volume license key. Where can I download MS Office Pro Plus 2007? Microsoft's ...
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Communicator 2007 R2 saved conversation in Outlook has LARGE filesize

I recently upgraded from Communicator 2007 to 2007 R2. I notice that the conversations saved to Outlook Conversation History folder occupy much more space (~ 10x-20x) than they used to. For example, ...
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Is it possible to track how people use Microsoft Office Products?

My company is considering a move to Google Apps. Our first step is to find out how everyone in our company is using MS Office. We could ask them directly but we believe we'll get a much less bias ...
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Battling with Office 2007/2010 GPOs

I just set a GPO for the Shared Themes Path for the entire Office 2007 and 2010 suite using the Group Policy: User Policy --> Administrative Templates --> Microsoft Office 2007 System --> ...
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Out of Office reply Outlook2007

We have an Exchange 2007 SP3 environment and I have a user who is using Outlook 2007 that wants to use the different OOO replies (inside/outside your organization). She has entered a different reply ...
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Rolling out Office 2007: How to handle macros and VB scripts

I am about to roll out Office 2007 to 1600 users. Most of it seems straight forward, but this client is particularly worried about macros and VB scripts not working. How do you migrate them in the ...
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What happens if your Windows or Office Open License expires? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We have 10 copies of Office 2007 that we purchased about 2 years ago on a Microsoft Open License (no Software Assurance). ...
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Can you exclude items from certain folders from appearing in the Recent Items\Jump Lists feature of Win 7 start menu?

to be clear, I like the 'Recent Items' feature. I do not want to turn it off. We integrate all of Office with a document management system (DMS), Interwoven's FileSite, and because of this integration ...
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Sharepoint seeking authentication when opening Word / Excel files from website

The company I work for is using SharePoint as a CMS for it's public facing website. I recently enabled FBA (Forms Based Authentication) for the site in order to provide some user specific ...
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Switching between Office 2003 and 2007 applications requires reconfiguring (installation dialog)

In our class environment, we have one class used primarily for Microsoft Access courses where each time you switch between 2003 and 2007 it will start reconfiguring with the installation dialog I'm ...
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Are there any Outlook-compatable exchange alternatives?

I'm searching for a outlook-compatable solution for my company ... I've found codeTwo company, with there software: http://www.codetwo.com/public-folders/ , for syncing calender .. Its great product, ...
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Slow to open files from Server 2008r2 with exchange 2010

I have a domain with windows 7 pro x86 and x64 bit computers on it. Users are experiencing slow load times for office documents that are shared on a network share off the same server that houses the ...
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Disable 'Options' from the File Menu in Office 2007 applications

We have deployed Office 2007 to multiple computers in an office environment (Windows Server 2008 and Windows XP CLients) and need to remove the 'Options' setting seen from the File menu. Is there a ...
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How can I create an Office "all-in-one" DVD with all Office applications?

I have the DVDs (or downloaded ISOs, or archives) for the various Office products: stand-alone programs like Word and Excel, the full Office suite, and applications that are only bundled alone (...
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Event 4098, 0x80070533 Logon failure: account currently disabled?

Having started to upgrade our PCs to Windows 7 we have noticed that we are getting group policy warnings in Event Viewer such as: "The user 'Word.qat' preference item in the 'a_Office2007_Users {...
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Opening Office 2007 files using a Vista or Win7 client on a server 2008 file share causes lockups and explorer crashes

I think this mostly happens when trying to open files opened by other users. In the XP/2003 days you would get some kind of warning about a locked/read only file. With 7/Vista/2008 I'm just seeing ...
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Office 2007 running under Windows 7 is slow to save files to network

Saving an Excel or Word 2007 file to a network share is very slow in Office 2007. It might take as long as two minutes two save a 100kb file. What could be causing this? The network share is hosted ...
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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 ...
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Office 2007 support for Exchange 2010 Personal Archive

Does anyone know if Microsoft will be updating Outlook 2007 to support Personal Archives in Exchange 2010?
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How to use Group Policy force Office 2007 to save in Office 2003 format?

We have a few newer machines running Office 2007, but most of our users are still on Office 2003 (or even older versions) and I've had complaints from those users about receiving documents they can't ...
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Group Policy: Trusted Location in User's My Documents?

I am trying to use group policy to add a subdirectory of the user's home directory as a trusted location for Microsoft Access 2007 (User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Office Access ...
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Office 2007 on a Windows 2003 x64 Terminal Server Installs Slowly

We have a Windows 2003 x64 Terminal Server with Office 2003. I'm trying to install Office 2007 Pro. I've set Permission Compatibility to Full Security so the installation starts properly. NOD32 is ...
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All office apps crash immediately on server 2008

I have a brand new windows 2008 server (64 bit) with a brand new installation of Office 2007, fully patched with all windows updates etc. Every time I try to run any of the office apps it crashes ...
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Word or excel (2007) document left open

We run a network with a domain controller under Windows 2000 5.00 Service Pack 4. Somebody left an Excel document open and everybody else cannot fill it. How can I find which person (or computer) ...
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Multi comp deployment and OEM Office [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We purchased 15 machines, all the same model, OS and configuration. Each one has an OEM version of Office Basic 2007. Is ...
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Windows 7 Office 2007 GPO install

I have a GPO that works fine for installing Office 2007 Pro Plus on Vista and XP but when it installs Office on Windows 7 somehow the office key does not get entered via the customized msp, and needs ...
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Word 2007 crashes on Server 2008 R2 terminal services

We are finding that Word 2007 (with SP2) crashes when used on a Windows 2008 R2 terminal server. Typically it crashes when you click File/Open or File/Save, but not every time. Maybe one time in four, ...
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What is the most cost effective method for licensing Microsoft Office on network computers [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? I have a small (50 seats) office domain that needs to have Office 2007 available to the users. The cost to purchase ...
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Unable to install Office 2007 x64 on Windows 7 via GPO

I have a GPO that I use to push Office 2007 to our XP and Vista clients in our 2003 domain. I just installed a Windows 7 x64 Pro RTM machine and I'm trying to install Office 2007 in the same manner, ...
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Is it possible to rearm Microsoft Office 2007 similar to Vista/Win7?

Is it possible to rearm Microsoft Office 2007 trial before activation period in a similar way that can be done for Vista/Win7?
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Office 2007 network share access denied

Hope I have not duplicated an issue already posted but I could not find anything from the search... Right here is the problem, we have recently updated all our desktops to the MS Office 2007 suite ...
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Suggestions to improve e-mail security

I work for a lawyer company which has a lot of extremely sensitive data. I would like to step up a notch on security. Especially when it comes to e-mail. So I'd like a lot of recommendations, ...
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Office 2007 - run ONLY the Infopath .MSI file again?

CN: Office 2007 with admin .MSP file, how to add a new feature and redeploy without removing "one off Office apps (like OneNote)" when the admin .MSP file runs?? I have created a script that will ...
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Office 2007 New Message Window Does Not Respond

I am using Windows XP and every time I open the new message window in Office 2007 the window can't be dragged, can't be closed by clicking on the window. I can close or move or maximize the window by ...
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Office 2007 documents sent to Ricoh printer are stored under the name of the of the user who created the doc instead of the user who printed the doc

This issue is difficult to illustrate if you aren’t familiar with how the Ricoh Aficio C2500 series printer operates and is setup in our office, so here is some necessary background. All staff have ...
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To Install and Configure SharePoint 2007 for Office Document Collaboration

I have just installed SharePoint 2007 ( no config yet), and would like to get it work on Microsoft Office document collaboration. Basically I want to be able to use SharePoint as the central ...
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Microsoft Office 2007 OEM CD With Retail Version Product Key

Will a Microsoft Office 2007 OEM CD recognize a retail version product key?
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Change user templates path in Word 2007

I can not change the User Templates path in "File location...". It simply refuses to change to anything different. My goal is to set the path to a templates folder on the server e.g \myserver\folder\...
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MS Word 2007 Randomly Saves a blank doc

Got a user that everyone once in awhile (maybe once every 2 weeks or so) will do a "save as" in their Word 2007 and the created, saved document will be blank. But most of the time, "save as" works ...
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Migrating Outlook 2007 local settings across Windows XP machines

Outlook 2007 (and 2003) stores many settings including email signatures locally, and users that move frequently from machine to machine have to spend time setting all these up. Office 2003 included ...
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Removing Research from Office 2007 installs

Is there any way to disable the "Research" feature (Alt + Click) in Microsoft Office 2007? It would be better if there was a policy setting or install option that I've missed, but if not, can you ...
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