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Office: A suite of Microsoft productivity software that supports common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, and data management and analysis.
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Hello, For some time now we've tried to build an Outlook add-in for both Outlook Desktop and Outlook for the Web using the new JavaScript based stack. Our business needs have led us to event-based activation however in our experience this does not work…
Boa tarde, Tenho o Office 365. Pretendo colocar na celula A1 o valor 123,00€ e que apareça na celula B1 cento e vinte e três euros). Dado que o Excel não tem uma função para o efeito, podem me ajudar com uma uma macro que responda ao solicitado? …
Dear person, I wrote some VBA code to automate powerpoint slides per row of my excel file. Everything works great so far, only thing is that I would like to change the colour of the bullett point that is created with the Placeholder(2) line. Also how…
I would like to setup a default rule on each users machine for Outlook. I would like to apply conditional formatting for all external emails. Currently there appears to be no way to do it via group policy.
I'm developing an Excel VSTO Add-In and I need to update its manifests to reflect customer's specific settings (ie, I have to update 'file' list in application's manifest, since I need to modify the content of a .config inside application's folder). I'm…
Is it possible to change the On-Send default message using the Outlook Add-in API? I have an add-in where I am stopping the email from being sent using: currentEvent.completed({ allowEvent: false }); I tried doing this, but it didn't work. Does anyone…
Problem is ... In Outlook, File | Options, any attempt to save by clicking the OK button (even if you have made no changes) results in the error message "the end date you entered occurs before the start date" and no changes to the Options can…
I posted this a while back on Super User, but never got a response. Students fill out some tables in Word, and they must occasionally use a certain color font to get full credit. I'm using VBA to import their data and the color of their font from their…
Our manifest xml file is having some sort of caching problem where our updates to the manifest file are not showing up on our excel add-in. Instead, the add-in seems to be using and caching older versions of the manifest. We have referenced the…
With the help of Chat GPT I have been trying to create some macros in Outlook to automate incoming meeting requests. The macro is applied to a (one) meeting request that is selected in the inbox. I managed to set a category, and to accept the…
Hi, My routine process a Word document in Excel VBA, when I tried to open a Visio picture embedded in the Word document, it will fail randomly, while the object of Word will be flushed to null. When the code run forward, error 462 will be reported on…
Updating a macro from a previous version of Word that inserts a file and Word is displaying this VERY annoying message prompting SO many questions! This also appears when inserting the file manually without a macro. Why am I getting a dialog about the…
I have multiple email accounts/mailboxes set up in my Outlook. (my personal company account, a mailbox for windows problems, a mailbox for unix problems, and another mailbox for network problems), and I want to see if there is any way to determine the…
Hi Colleagues, It looks like xlSet call from Excel CAPI (XLL) can set cell string data up to 8190 characters string in Excel 2019 despite I expect the limit of 32767 characters. The call returns xlretFailed (32) and error code xlerrValue (15)…
Hello, i have a question relating the office telemetry dashboard. I searched for a couple of hours but could not find anything that helped me fix my problem, since there is only one other post of someone asking for a solution. I was trying to get the…
Hi Team, I have configured a M365 Developer Instant Sandbox, I managed to configure Booking page, I'm able to invite internal staff members to my Booking page but if I try to invite external users it seems to not work. I'm able to invite an external…
To get chart, series, series point formatting, I have to load each format property (e.g axisGroup, gradient color etc).Is there any way we get chart, series and series point formatting is single function?
We use Microsoft WinWord application to do the .doc to .pdf conversion through automation. The conversion works well for many files. However after a file say 10000 conversions, Windword.exe crashes randomly sometimes. Attaching the Dump file for crash…
We are currently developing a text enhancement add-in for Word with the objective of offering it without any online account requirements. Our aim is to ensure that the add-in operates locally, thereby eliminating any concerns for professional and…
We are currently developing a spellchecker add-in for Word that targets minority languages. Our approach involves extracting text from the paragraphs, checking for spelling errors, and displaying them in a taskbar. However, we are facing a challenge in…