Questions tagged [office-365]

A set of subscription based software services that require monthly or periodic payment of fees to Microsoft Corporation.

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Looking for a simple way to announce attendance

My ask: Is there any existing solution, or maybe a clever way of using Microsoft Office 365 to announce your intention to attend at a certain date? Components / requirements: Calendar, covering ...
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Is a 'shared calendar' simply a calendar that has been shared with one or more other persons

Is there such a thing in MS365 as a 'shared calendar' as distinct from a personal calendar or is a shared calendar simply somebody's calendar (probably not their primary one) that has been shared with ...
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How to sort by descending date within a conversation in MS Outlook 365

I am using MS Outlook and I would like to sort emails based on conversation and then descending by date within each conversation so that the most recent email is at the TOP vs bottom. I tried Arrange ...
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How to turn off smart paragraph selection in the Microsoft Word 365 Web app?

How do you turn off smart paragraph selection in the Microsoft Word Web app? There are a number of questions related to this, but they all are for the desktop app, not the web app; this is an example ...
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How do I copy Outlook calendar information (Office 365) into Google calendar?

I am getting lots of results on related questions, but not quite what I want. I have Outlook Office 365 from some organization, and a Gmail account. What I want is, for example, once a day or even ...
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Error in Microsoft power-automate flow when getting row from spreadsheet updated by form

I am trying to automate the following process There is a form "Behaviour Breach Report". This updates at table "Behave" in a spreadsheet "Behaviour Incident" (which is ...
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How to avoid constant logging out from Outlook Web App?

Every certain period of time I got logged out from Outlook Web App, part of Office 365, automatically like every hour without any apparent reason, and the message reads: You signed out of your ...
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How can I search for equations that are displayed as [Equation] instead of the actual equation in a document in Word 365 online?

I use Word online via my Office 365 subscription. I have made an online copy of a Word document containing many equations. For some reasons, some equations got messed up in the process, and appears as:...
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How to use Gmail for POP from Office 365 when there are too many messages?

I have an email account in Office 365 that I want to transfer into my Gmail account. Unfortunately, the only way to do it would be to use POP (it doesn't seem like Gmail in the web interface allows to ...
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SMTP with app-passowrd of O365 does not work

I have an email address in Office 365 which I would like to use for a scanner's SMTP feature. For this email address, I have enforced MFA to be able to set an app-password. I give the following ...
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Custom bookmarks that specificy the preferred OWA account

Is there a way to access Outlook on the Web from a bookmark that also specifies the specific account? For example, I have two businesses that each have a Microsoft 365 account. For example, info@...
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Is it possible to see Outlook from Office 365 in my Google Calendar?

I use Google Calendar as my main calendar but I'm now working at a company that uses the Microsoft Office 365 suit of apps. I like seeing all my calendars into one place so I can see whether I'm busy ...
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Automatically add a calendar entry

We are using Office 365 / Outlook calendar to keep track of customer appointments. We have certain forms on our website for customers to request an appointment. After such a form is submitted, a ...
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How do you present slides (over browser) in Google slides similar to "office presentation service"

I am trying to "present google slides" online.That is, if people only have a browser and a conference line, I give them a link (ahead of time, say over email), they open it and see what I am ...
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Outlook 365 webmail client

Is it just me, or is the text editor of the webmail interface at outlook.office.com really buggy when it comes to setting fonts? I am unable to select a full paragraph, or select just a sentence, ...
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How do I increase the width of a table in OneNote Online?

I have a table in the OneNote app in Office365. I want to increase the overall width of the table, and I also want to add columns to it. However, whenever I try to drag the right side of the table, ...
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How can I check my storage on my OneDrive for business account?

How can I check my storage on my OneDrive for a business account? https://faq.oit.gatech.edu/content/how-do-i-check-my-storage-usage-onedrive-business says: but I don't have the "site settings" ...
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Email aliases on Windows Live Domains for custom domains [closed]

I have hosted my email on Google Apps and was trying to move it to Windows Live Domains. However, when I tried to create my email address as [email protected] I received the error: The requested ...
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Connect a mail.live.com address to an office365.com account - unusual activity [closed]

My mail.office365.com aka outlook.office.com account has asked me to reconnected my mail.live.com account. This is what I have tried. 9:24 am at mail.office365.com... Clicked Settings > Mail > ...
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Integrating Office 365 Calendar with Google Calendar

I am trying to integrate a offiche-365 calendar to google-calendar. The purpose is to use the ical from the google calendar in a 3rd party app where I can only read Google Calendars. However, ...
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How to make a date field in Word Online?

If I open Word Online, I do not find a way to make a date field that refreshes itself at every opening. I do not want to write down the date by hand whenever I save the file on a new date. How to make ...
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Allowing bookings of o365 room for external users

I have a O365 tenant with a bunch of resources (=rooms) in it, e.g. [email protected], and a few users, e.g. [email protected]. The rooms are possible to book for users within the tenant, i.e., user1 may ...
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How can I automatically refresh a pivot table in Excel 365 (web)?

I found https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/refresh-pivottable-data-6d24cece-a038-468a-8176-8b6568ca9be2#ID0EBBF=Web, which says: However, I don't see the PivotTable Tools on the ribbon, even ...
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How can I modify the reminder time of my outlook calendar events?

I want to adjust the reminder time of all my calendar events. I want to change the reminder time for all existing and new events to "at time of event". For new events I tried to do this: ...
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When using the "Present in Teams" feature in an Office 365 PowerPoint online presentation, how can I start the presentation at the current slide?

I sometimes use the "Present in Teams" feature in an Office 365 PowerPoint online presentation. How can I start the presentation at the current slide, and not at the first slide of the ...
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Exchange calendar resource sharing externally

We are about to move into a shared building where we will be required to share meeting rooms with a few other small companies. We currently use exchange on a small business server but will be moving ...
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Sync Office 365 calendar to Google calendar

I could not find an up to date question about how to sync an Office 365 calendar to Google calendar. I do not wan't to use an application designed to use the desktop version of Outlook like OggSync ...
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When inserting a video in an Office 365 PowerPoint online presentation, how can I easily make its dimension match the slide's dimension?

I've inserted a video in an Office 365 PowerPoint online presentation. How can I make its dimension match the slide's dimension, without having to painfully manually try to match it? Example:
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My university email uses Outlook (Office365) and has Two-Factor Authentication, and I want to use Gmail interface via SMTP. How do enable this? [closed]

I used to be able to use my Outlook (Office 365) email on Gmail by doing the simple SMTP settings, like the one illustrated here. However, my university recently had Two-Factor Authentication, so the ...
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All pictures inside my Office 365 word got disappear

I have a word document with 219 pages, and all pages contain one or 2 pictures. the size of the file was above 20 MB . now suddenly when i open it , it size is only 87 KB and all pictures are showing ...
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Receiving invite responses on non-primary Google Calendars

I have set up an additional (non-primary) Google calendar and sent out a bunch of invites to events on it. After awhile I noticed I was only seeing responses from other Google users. Hoping it was ...
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Word's "Keep with next" paragraph option missing

I used to use the "Keep with next" paragraph option that was available in the regular version of Microsoft Word to keep a heading on the same page as the following text. Now we are using the ...
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How to set-up email archiving/journaling for all users on Outlook 365 e-mail?

How to set-up email archiving on Outlook 365 e-mail on a custom domain? I don't mean GoDaddy 365 emails. This would let one search all-emails on the account.
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oneDrive always opens in the wrong Microsoft account, and the needed Microsoft account's oneDrive does not open at all

I have Office365 and made the mistake of signing in to another Microsoft account that I mixed up with the one that I used before. Being logged in with the right Microsoft account that also has Office ...
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How to make a copy of shared read-only Word doc in OneDrive

TLDR; make a copy of shared read-only Word doc in onedrive. I've shared a file with my students using an "anyone with the link can view" url. I need the students to be able to make their own ...
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Can I gaplessly go over to a new Microsoft Office 365 Family 1-year subscription without using the official MS Office subscription renewal?

I have bought Microsoft Office 365 Family from a private market place, not from a Microsoft Office site. Now at the end of the one-year subscription, I would prefer buying a one-year subscription ...
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How do I select more than 9 Inbox items (but less than all the emails) in Office 365's Outlook?

When I try to select several emails in Outlook within Office 365, here is what happens: I can select 9 emails (or 13 emails if I disable the preview text in the preferences) if I click on the first ...
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How do I enable or disable the inclusiveness underlining in outlook office 365?

How do I enable or disable the purple underlining for non-inclusive or biased language in Outlook in Office 365? An example message: "inclusiveness: this language may appear biased".
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How can I export a Microsoft Office 365 Word online document to PDF without comments? [closed]

I have a Word document in Microsoft Office 365 Word Online. The document contains some comments. How can I export it to PDF without comments?
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How can I group 2 images in an Office 365 PowerPoint online presentation?

I have an Office 365 PowerPoint online presentation. When I try to group 2 images, the group option is disabled. Why?
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Turning off email notifications for Office 365 Groups

We need to start using "unified groups" in Office 365/Azure AD for an intranet project that uses Azure AD as the identitiy provider. We want communication to stay in the platform, and what ...
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How to revert docx file to its original state after it was opened in gdocs?

At work, we use Google Drive as the repository for most files. Some of these files are Microsoft Office files : .docx (Word), .xslx (Excel), .pptx (Powerpoint). Let's take the case of a .docx file. If ...
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How can I remove a document when the document is opened in Microsoft Word online 365?

How can I remove a document when the document is opened in Microsoft Word online 365? E.g. in Google document I can do:
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How to configure plain text email signature for Office365?

I have changed my mail settings to plain text for the Outlook webapp. I also added a signature with the delimiter --: -- Philipp Kretzschmar Software Developer Yet whenever I send mails to my ...
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When Excel 365 online indicates that a formula in a cell contains an error, where do I see the error message?

When Excel 365 online indicates that a formula in a cell contains an error, where do I see the error message?
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Office365 Query Strings and URL Parameters

I'm looking for a reference of URL parameters that can be passed into Office365 to be used as links for the MAILTO: protocol and other uses. For instance, Outlook Web App in Office 365 will take the ...
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How can one change the download permissions of several videos at once in OneDrive?

I have 10 videos on my OneDrive account (as part of my employer's Office 365 account) that are view-only by people having a link to it. How can I change their permissions at once so that all 10 videos ...
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How can one insert a video in an Office 365 PowerPoint presentation without having to host the video on some website outside Office 365 PowerPoint?

I want to insert a video in an Office 365 PowerPoint presentation without having to host the video on some website outside Office 365 PowerPoint. I could only find a way to add an online video to my ...
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Accessing In Place Archive of a Shared Mailbox in Office 365?

I'm currently working on a way to get access to the content in an in-place archive on a shared mailbox. We currently have a client who has a former employee's mailbox converted to a shared mailbox. It ...
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How can one swap 2 columns in Microsoft Excel 365 if the sheet contains a sortable table?

I have a Microsoft Excel 365 file with a sheet containing a sortable table: How can I swap 2 columns in this sheet (e.g., swap column H with column I)? What I have tried unsuccessfully: Select ...