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Office 2007/8

Office 2007 and Office 2008 are the latest versions of the Microsoft Office packages for Windows and Macintosh computers. They include the latest versions of Word, Excel & PowerPoint amongst other items.

Look here for questions and answers on installing and using these packages. You can browse the list of questions below, or type something into the 'keyword' box and then click Search. You can also Submit your own questions.

Questions:

I was wondering if there was a special priced microsoft office suite for students at brighton university? And how can obtain this? Thank you.

I used to use the Advanced Search in Outlook to find messages by their subject, who they were from, or by the content of the message. This facility does not seem to be available anymore?

I used to display negative numbers in brackets with Excel 2003 . Using Excel 2007 they are displayed with a minus sign - and no brackets. I can't find how to change this.

I only have a few PowerPoint design templates (Themes) available on my computer. When I try to download more, I am told that there is a problem.

CourseGenie (WimbaCreate) is not working properly.

Where is the File menu?

Can I have Office 2007/Office 2008 on my home computer?

How do I find all the commands I used to use in Office 2003?

Can I open documents I created with old versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint using the new versions?

Outlook used to prompt me to turn off 'Out of Office' when I logged in. How do I turn it off in Outlook 2007?

I find it difficult to read the blue writing on the blue background of the Ribbon in Office 2007. Can I change the colour scheme?

Can I hide the Office 2007 ribbon?

How do I get Help using Office applications?

I'm using the Calendar in Outlook 2007. How can I display more than one month in the date navigator?

When I open Word, I get an error message telling me: Microsoft Visual Basic Compile error in hidden module: clsCGLanguage

Outlook 2007 makes changes I don't want when I'm typing a message. For example it replaces straight quotes by smartquotes and automatically formats list items. How can I stop this?

How do you prevent text being split between two pages. With old Word I could prevent this happening by selecting 'widows and orphans'. This option doesn't seem to be available with Word 2007?

How do you change the default line spacing in Word 2007?

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