Tag: microsoft office
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“Grant access” problem when trying to open Word docs
If you’re trying to open a Word doc, and it keeps saying you don’t have permission (even when you own the document), asking you to grant access to the document, and then still not giving you access; then just quit out of Word completely, and then launch it up again. The document should open fine…
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Updating MS Office dock icons from 2011 to 2016 using dockutil
Managing client machines while also giving your users freedom to customize their machines as they want can be a bit tricky. On the one hand, you want to automate things as much as possible so users don’t have to be bothered with too many update prompts and other maintenance nuisances. On the other hand, you…
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Can’t paste from Google Docs to Microsoft Word on Mac
Obviously not the one solution for any time this happens, but I’ve come across this only once (just now), and this is what worked. The problem was the user was copying from a Google Doc and then trying to paste into a Word doc. Nothing pasted, even though the Edit menu item flashed blue as…
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Office 2016 changes for Munki and AutoPkg
Sources and Further Reading Demystify Office 2016 for Mac is a super-comprehensive breakdown of the changes in Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac. It was a bit too comprehensive for me. I kind of wanted just a bottom line, which the autopkg-discuss mailing list helped me with, and which I’ll summarize below. General Gist of Procedure…
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Making Microsoft AutoUpdate check manually for Macs with Munki
Note: I’m writing with regard to Microsoft Office for 2011. It’s possible the .plist file updates here is different for other versions of Microsoft Office for Mac. If you’re using Munki to manage software updates, you don’t want the applications themselves to be constantly checking for updates or notifying your users when an update is…
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Error 0x80070190 when activating Microsoft Office 2010
Had this happen once on a Windows machine. Microsoft has several solutions outlined at When attempting to activate Office 2010 receive error “An unspecified error has occurred. Your request cannot be processed at this time. Please try again later. (0x80070190)” The one that worked for me was 3. Change the UserOperations key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform to…