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If you are using SharePoint hosted on Microsoft’s Office365 platform you might think that you cannot change the background wallpaper, but you can. Change the Wallpaper on SharePoint: Click the COG (top right corner of the screen) Click SITE SETTINGS Click CHANGE THE LOOK (under LOOK AND FEEL) Click the Read more…
If you are finding that the ‘grammar check’ in Office products (Word, Outlook…) are pointing out more than you would like, you can adjust it. The latest version of Office 2016 offers two Grammar settings: GRAMMER Typical grammar checking GRAMMER AND MORE Typical grammar + things like “Wordiness” and “Vague Read more…
If your Office 2016 ProPlus was installed using the Office Deployment Toolkit (ODT) then you may be not know what branch of Office you are using. Fortunately there are two easy ways to determine which Branch of Office 365 ProPlus your PC is using:
If you have Office365 Office 2016, by default you are running a product that is 4 months old. This is called the Deferred Channel. For a variety of good reasons you may want to change to the Current Channel: Testing Needing a new feature Needing to eliminate a bug that Read more…
Office 2016 from Office365 will stay in the “Channel” it was installed with even if you change from Deferred to Current or Current to Deferred in Office365. There are three ways to force Office365 Office 2016 to change channels and I suggest using the third one. Uninstall and Reinstall Office Read more…
If you want to disable Backstage View when saving in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, … you can set it with a Group Policy Object (GPO), a script or manually HOW TO DISABLE OFFICE BACKSTAGE MANUALLY: To disable the Backstage View manually, just click: FILE > OPTIONS > SAVE > and check “Don’t show Read more…
If you have Office 2016 and you want to block your staff from easily saving content in the cloud, you can disable the SHARE button using the following Group Policy Object (GPO): User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> “Office Product Name” -> Disable Items in User Interface -> Custom -> Read more…
UPDATE JANUARY 2020: SOLVED: Setup Office365ProPlus To Using Windows 10 Delivery Optimization ____________ There are three ways to patch Office 2016 from Office365 : What you can’t do is control Office365 updates through WSUS. Wait a minute, you say you saw a WSUS category named OFFICE365 CLIENT and the research says Read more…
UPDATED: July 13 2017 If you are trying to install Office Pro Plus from Office 365 and you see “Your admin has turned off Office installs”, your Office365 administrator has likely turned off the ability for anyone to download Office. This can occur even if you do have a license Read more…
If you have a program that appears in the Task Bar but not on any of your screens you likely have one of two problems. Fortunately both are easy to fix. PROGRAM IS RESTORED TO A POSITION ON A SCREEN YOU CANNOT SEE I have seen this occur in two Read more…
If you are interested in Office365, we at Up & Running would love to talk to you directly. However, you can also: get a free 30 day Office 365 trial account for 25 people HERE. Note that whatever you setup in the trial can EASILY be moved into ‘production’ so Read more…
If you have an Office365 account, you likely know that you have 50GB worth of storage space. However, it is not obvious how much of that 50GB limit you are currently using. Questions like: ‘How large is all of my email’, ‘How much space do I have left in my Read more…
Conversation View was a pretty neat idea that I thought I would really like when it was released in 2013. The idea of bringing all of the replies into a single thread in Outlook sounded great. In practice I HATE IT because I find it much harder to find individual Read more…
If you have ever not received an email that you know was sent but did not bounce back to the sender, it might be that the backend server has marked it for deletion and put in the Quarentine. Microsoft, and all good companies, have email filtering that saves you from Read more…
If you have an Excel table with a number of ROWS you want to have selected and removed based on the contents of a cell, you can use the SORT & FILTER editor. It is very easy to use. Simply click on the column you want to evaluate On the Read more…
If you are attaching files from your Office365 Onedrive Sharepoint cloud storage using Outlook 2016 you will find that it provides a lovely drop down showing you your recently edited files. If you select files from that list and they are stored on OneDrive / SharePoint what it will actually Read more…