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Hi, we have recently upgraded from Office 2010 to 2016 in our school and have just come across a problem, if the staff open a Word document previously done in 2010 on the 2016 the text is missing, for example open a document on 2010 all is fine, open it in 2016 the boxes and columns are there but no text!! weird, would appreciate any help , thanks

Morning everyone, I've got a major issue with KMS here. Until last week, we had all Windows 7 clients (with Office2010) activated via KMS on a server 2008R2 DC. Well this summer we have rebuilt both our DC's and upgraded them to server 2012 R2. I am trying to set KMS up and it's not working My aim is to have a KMS server which will activate Windows 7 and 10 (as we plan to roll that out over the year) as well as Office 2010 and 2016 - which we also plan to roll out. Is there a KMS key which will activate Windows 7 and 10, and another to activate office 2010 and 2016? I know this is a big ask however we can't be the first school to do this... Thanks in advance. Regards Harry

All, I have been trying to reduce unneeded internet traffic at our site of late, due to poor speeds on the connection I noted a lot of traffic to Office online help – specifically officeimg.vo.msecnd.net Doing a bit of digging and it seems office 2010 and 2013 connect to this address automatically at startup and download stuff. At our site it was roughly 1 – 1.5 Gig a day! Changing the Office 2010 registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\Internet\UseOnlineContent Or Office 2013 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Internet\UseOnlineContent To REG_DWORD value 0 Disables this and frees up that bit more bandwith I’ve pushed this out via Group Policy preferences, but you could just as easily use a login script or modify mandatory profiles. Hope this is helpful

Hi there I am wondering if anyone can help me. Previously, we have had to completely disable spelling and grammar checking in word 2010 for exam purposes. We now have some surface RT's and they come with office 2013. Does anyone on here know of any way to do it on this version, but then also re enable it for when not being used for exams? Any help appreciated! Matt

I arrived to the Unplugged event about ten minutes late due to a misguided right turn on the road before the venue which led me several kilometers away to the end of a long queue of traffic which added fifteen minutes to my travel time. I’ll summarize some of the things that I found interesting which you may or may not know about Office 2010. First up Office Web Access, this is an online implementation of the Office applications that replicates much of the functionality of the full Office suite in any standards compliant browser using HTML and JavaScript. Although not full featured it does appear to have a large amount of the functionality and the same UI as the desktop version. To get access to it all you need is a Professional or Standard version of Office 2010, your documents and Office Web Apps can be hosted for free on MS Sky Drive with a Windows Live ID or locally inside your own network on a server with either the free SharePoint Foundation server or full SharePoint Server. The sky drive implementation allows for multiple users to access and edit the documents at the same time. SharePoint goes much further with version tracking, searching and other features. A big thing that I will find useful is the fact that you can embed full Office document views into web pages for easy viewing or printing in any modern browser. No more PDF newsletters or forms, given the rights control on Sky drive you should not even need your own SharePoint server to do this. Just a live ID. The software itself has also, like Windows 7 been written for speed, the minimum requirements were quoted at just 256MB or RAM and a 500MHz CPU on Windows XP SP3 or above. It does apparently use 1.5GB more HD space but I am unsure on this as the Beta was smaller than 2007. Other big global changes are the ribbon, for one the Office Orb is gone - replaced with the trusty File tab for the less adaptable. The ribbon is also fully per user customizable allowing you create whole new tabs on the ribbon with your own choice of commands. These are all stored in an XML file and are deployable with the initial installation, they may also be deployable with Group Policy but I have not confirmed that yet. A small upwards arrow is now also included on the bottom right hand corner of the ribbon to minimize it. You could minimize it in Office 2007 by double clicking any of the tab names in the ribbon but I like many users had not found this feature. Backstage and the ribbon are now in all Office applications too, backstage is the new term for the area that allows you to share your document by printing it, saving it, publishing it to SharePoint or your Sky Drive. This area organizes all of these tasks into an easy common UI to simplify these tasks. One feature that I am excited about in this is the print feature and its automatic preview. The print action will bring up a print preview beside your printing options showing you live what the pages will look like. I don’t know about others but I have tried many times to get users to check the print preview first so they don’t waste paper, this shoves it in their face as a matter of course which is a great improvement. OneNote, the note taking and organizing program is now included in all editions of Office which is another positive step as it is a very good tool for gathering and processing information. Its tasks also still follow you into Outlook to remind you to follow up on the content. PowerPoint has quite a few new tricks, the first of which is an entirely rewritten graphics engine based on DirectX9. This means much fancier and smoother transitions and effects, probably even over an RDP connection as RDP now encapsulates some DirectX stuff. This should still run on a PC without a DX9 GPU though as it can be rendered in software so it won’t stop working on older machines. There are new graphics tools like the easy background removal tool which can usually strip out the background of a photo with very little effort; this little trick was picked up out of MS research’s bag of tricks. Thanks to the new graphics engine and the new video features it is now easy to grab a video from somewhere and crop out the beginning or end. You can also apply transforms on the video of shape, color or other enhancements just like you can with images. PowerPoint now also includes a broadcast feature which will turn your slides into an HTML and JavaScript version then upload them to a space on Sky Drive giving you a link in return. You can send this link to you participants and as you progress through the slides on your PC they progress on the participants PCs to. This feature does not include all of the flash transitions because of the lack of the DX9 engine the web solution and will not transport your voice across but is still quite cool. SharePoint Workspace is the renamed and upspec’ed version of the old Groove collaboration tool. It is like an offline files feature for your SharePoint server allowing you to check out and work on documents then sync them back. This uses intelligent file management and tracking so that only changes are synced, very important if you are working remotely and change two words in a 500MB PowerPoint stack. This can be controlled by group policy and configured to work in a peer to peer fashion like Groove also. Outlook has been much improved, behind the scenes and in front. It now supports up to ten Exchange Server accounts in a single MAPI profile allowing you to have Outlook connecting to different schools Exchange Servers if you deal with more than one site. The nickname cache (.nk2 files) feature where Outlook remembers all addresses that you typed in the “to” box is now server side meaning no more complaining users (about this fault) when their profiles have to be reset. As it’s on the server it follows you between clients and even to webmail. The favorites have also gotten the same treatment allowing for the same experience. Quicksteps are another new feature, kind of like macros for Outlook allowing you to complete a string of common tasks with a single click, one of the built in ones are reply and delete but you can customize and add more to suite your work flow. Outlook Social Connector is an extension that is built in to Office 2010 but is downloadable for 2007 and 2003. Personally I don’t think that the name does it justice as it is more of a compiler of information. By default it will show you all previous emails from the contact in question and pull personal information on the contact from your local SharePoint if it exists. The big feature for me is that is also shows you in a list all of the attachments that you have received from the user and allows you to go right to them something which has eaten far too much of my time in the past. There is a plug-in for LinkedIn which will grab details from there too but this is about as close as it gets to the Social aspect of its name. Excel has seen a large amount of performance tuning allowing truly huge datasets, massive with the 64bit version and access to even more ram. One of the demos was a comparison of the graphing engines when faced with a huge dataset (hundreds of thousands of rows I think). Office 2003 rendered it but took several seconds and the redraws were slow and jerky, Office 2007 crashed like a champ after about ten seconds and 2010 rendered it in less than a second with very quick redraws. It could even resize it smoothly. Are there file format changes between 2007 and 2010? Yes but these are minor between Office 2007 SP2 and 2010, they should still open fine. Will there be an Office 2010 Compatibility Pack for Office 2003? Possibly. What about security warning dialogue boxes? Outlook now runs automatically in sandboxed mode allowing the user to see a non active version of the document without a warning, they will only be prompted to enable the document if they open it and want macros. This can be turned off in group policy.

Hi All, If my current 40 Desktop users already got MS Office 2007 Small Business Edition (OEM Preinstallation Kit / OPK) in their laptop, Do I have to buy another 40 license of MS Office 2010 Professional or just one only for the use of my Terminal Server on my Windows Server 2008 R2 which has 40 users CAL already ? Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hello, this is my first post and it may seem a bit simple to some but I have just about managed to get my head around SCCM recently so I'm a little fried. After having a base image setup for Windows 7, Office 2010 and all of our curriculum software I managed to role it out to our new systems without a hitch. There were a few teething problems with the initial GPO setup but in the end I got there. This was my first time working properly with them and I was left unsupervised. Anyway, after a week or so I began to receive complaints from staff that they could no longer put clip art into their office documents. Upon looking Office 2010 was installed without any of the tools etc. No I was told that SCCM would make my life easier around the school. The management of 150+ systems was a little time consuming but SCCM has created some slack on my work load. I was wondering if any bright people out there could offer up a solution to install just the clip organizer parts of Office 2010 (maybe tools etc too) without having to venture to each individual machine and run the changes from the disc. It will be greatly appreciated and hopefully one day I will be able to offer some words of wisdom to others.

Hello, all.. (Eep - another begging post. I'll return the favour some day - honestly!!) I did search for this, but "Office" and "template" seems to bring up 1000001 hits, and I've got folk breathing down my neck.. Mutter. We moved to Office 2010 (woo!) this Summer, and someone has raised an issue where certain online templates don't work. On investigating further, I've found they DO work - just not behind a proxy. The example I've used in my experiments is this: Word File New Agendas Conference Agenda With Tracks In work, I get: Template Download Error The template cannot be downloaded. To fix this problem, do the following: Make sure your computer is connected to the Internet (It is) Make sure your browser is no in offline mode (it isn't) Try to download the template again later (I've tried for several days) If I take one of our work laptops home with me, and login using cached credentials and change IE to go direct, then it works absolutely fine. Our Infrastructure guys can't see anything on their Trend or Websense consoles... I'm hoping someone here's run into the same issue, and can suggest a workaround. We don't have unauthenticated anything out to anywhere, basically I've found a few sites saying to allow unauthenticated connections out to assorted Microsoft sites, but they list about 20 of the things - which is going to be a HARD sell for me to get cleared. Any help with this would be hugely appreciated. Gerard

Hello All, I have two issues with Microsoft Word 2010. 1)I have recently upgraded our machines to Windows 7 running Office 2010.The school was previously running XP with Office 2003,the teachers create a document for the children to open on there laptops a so they can follow steps to creating a piece of work. Previously with the old set-up this was fine the children could open the documents, now with the new configuration if I have 15 laptops all accessing the the word document from a share some open up fine but some just sit at windows is starting for around 10 minutes then it doesn't respond.If you try it a few times eventually it opens? Seems to be an issue with multiple users opening the same document which was previously fine on the old config(XP,O2003)?Has anybody ever had this issue?Is there a way of fixing it need need to fix it ASAP as it is becoming increasingly frustrating for the Staff to teach.Is it a network issue? 2)Next issue is when some documents are being used,they will just freeze and when you try and open another word document or try and close it, it says there is a dialogue box open they only way to fix is too log off and log back on? Thanks Guys Look forward to your replys

Hi all! Has anyone experienced the issue where reports are being generated with only some of the tags being filled in? All our reports work in 2003 but when exported using 2010 they just don't fill out correctly. This is made even more strange as 'some' of the reports work with no issues, whereas some just put in the surname and nothing else! Rather frustrating, I did some digging on the capita site and issue number 1 on their known issues document says that to get around this issue you have to disable 'spell check as you type' enable ALL macros, and a host of other options. I can't believe I would have to disable spell check so that staff could print a report, it seems totally mad! Has anyone else seen this and got a workaround? This problem seems to have existed since Oct 2010, so isn't new, just the fix doesn't really seem like a fix to me.

Afternoon all! I've recently rolled out Office 2010 across the school, but seem to have a problem with just 5 PC's that refuse to take Office 2010... Originally, I used a script that removed Office 2003 and installed Office 2010, which seems to have worked with all of the PC's in the school, bar 5. When I attended to check these 5 PC's, Office 2003 was removed, but either 2010 was not installed, or it was installed but came up with the following error message when I tried to open Word/Excel: "This action is only valid for the products that are currently installed" I've checked the Event Log and it shows Office has finished installing, so I've cancelled the script, and tried to uninstall it and reinstall it from the Network. As I ran Setup, it would begin installing right up to the last minute, and it would just come up with a message that just said "Has encountered an error and could not complete". I'v tried re-installing it a few times, but I've still had no joy. But oddly, when I go to program files/microsoft office/office14 - I can run Word/Excel etc from there, with no errors or problems... I've tried linking the Program File shortcuts to this folder (Just for giggles) but no joy either. I've pretty much come against a brick wall here - has anyone come up against this type of problem before? Anyone managed to solve it?

Got Office 2010 though the new EES licensing. We haven't had any new Microsoft products since office 2000 and windows XP so KMS is all new to me. Set up a KMS server yesterday and activated the 5 minimum office clients so that's all working. The question I would like answered is what's the best way to activate office 2010 when using sysprep. We image the computer rooms quite alot with new software and/or tweaks maybe 2 or more times a term. I believe the way is to install office on the image and not activate but I would like to make sure before I do something silly. Will KMS bitch about anything if I keep re-imaging the computers and activating Office? Cheers

I've recently installed Office 2010 (over the top of 2007) and since discovered that outlook isn't being indexed by windows. My Boss has installed it too and his works fine. Anybody know how i can get it to work? It seems like i need to add it to the "Indexed Locations" but can't find a way to do it?! (See attachment) I've tried repairing office, re-installing office, i have the windows search and indexer installed.... can't think what else to try?!

AFAIK the manage version feature in Office integrates with SharePoint to allow you to browse previous versions of a document. Are new versions taken automatically every few minutes or is just every time the user remembers to press save? Would be amazing if this integrated with VSS/previous versions (which I love BTW). If it is not possible to make a shadow copy of just one file using VSS then the manage versions button should allow you another method of browsing previous versions instead of using the right click over folder and choose previous versions tab. AFAIK OneDrive versions are taken automatically every few minutes. Perhaps even triggered by making changes to a document. I guess this kind of functionality is only possible when using a database like storage system. Perhaps it would have been possible with WinFS. But why can't Microsoft at least let you see the VSS snapshots from inside Word or Excel. Does anyone know if this is possible and just not enabled by default if VSS is enabled on drive the file is saved to. Any improvements on this front in Office 2013 (over 2010)?

Just had fun with this one, and by fun, I mean "screaming hissy fit at how stupid Office is". Thought I'd share in case it helps others. Our IT teacher wanted students to create their own Publisher templates and then create a new Publisher file from that template. Despite the myriad Save As policies I'd applied, Publisher still insisted on using C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates as the location. The C: drive, for obvious reasons, is restricted. As such, saving a template popped up an error about insufficient permissions and then let the user save elsewhere; not ideal, but fine. Except that you can only use Custom Templates from this location when going New > My Templates (using File > Open just opens the template for editing, instead of creating a new file based on the template). Long story short, the setting to change this is in Word. Of course. It can be altered manually by opening Word, going to File > Options, Advanced, General section (at the bottom), File Locations button, and altering User templates. You might then think that the GPO is in the same place - Word > Word Options > Advanced > File Locations - but Microsoft apparently couldn't be bothered to include the full complement of settings here. Instead, to set it network wide, you have to use GPP to set a registry key: * User Config > Preferences > Windows Settings > Folders ** Create; H:\OfficeTemplates; run in logged on user's security context; Item Level Targeting > If folder H:\OfficeTemplates does not exist * User Config > Preferences > Windows Settings > Registry ** Update; hive = HKCU; path = Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\General; name = UserTemplates; type = REG_EXPAND_SZ; data = H:\OfficeTemplates\ (assuming H: is the mapped drive for home directory, ofc) That then creates a specific sub folder and tells Office to use that for templates. Sub folder is a good idea as setting it to the user homedir slows down the loading of Publisher as it scans the whole folder for templates. STUPID OFFICE.

Hi guys we are running office 2010 on CC3 Workstations with windows 2003 servers We have the ADM that comes from RM to allow basic office 2010 setting to be changed but we would like to change others mainly the Autosave feature etc. We have download the adm file from MS and tried adding to the type manager but theydo not appear in managment console. Has anyone got all the adm fiel working on CC3 for office 2010 if so how or if you know how i should do it then please help we have never done importing adm file before for cc3 but the RM ADM office 2010 is a bit thin on the ground. THanks in advance Stuart