Jun 13, 2018 - Word on Windows will also have to wait as Microsoft collects feedback from. The tech giant assures, however, that you can still go back to the old ribbon. To Outlook for Windows in July and then to Outlook for Mac in August. How to Completely Uninstall Office 2011 for Mac OS X Matt Klein April 3, 2015, 12:34pm EDT Microsoft has been readying its latest update to Office for Mac, and recently released its first preview.
This document explains how to reset and back up Office 2008. Ensure all Office applications are closed. Navigate to User/Library/Preferences folder and drag all the files to desktop that starts with com.microsoft.xxx.plist (xxx=name of Office app). Additionally delete/Move following files:. Application/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/ OfficePID.plist. User/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/ Microsoft Office 2008 Settings.plist The user will be prompted to re-enter the product key the next time Word is used. If user is having problem with font then delete ' Office Font Cache (12)', located in the same folder as Microsoft Office 2008 Settings.plist.
Office is now successfully reset. If all is well, trash the old file otherwise, quit all Office apps again, trash the new files and drag the original files back to where they belong. Additional information on troubleshooting Microsoft Office fonts can be found Backups How to enable automatic save in Microsoft Office 2008?.
Open Microsoft Word (or any other Office App). Hold Command and Comma key. System Preferences window would open. In System Preferences Save enable ' Always create a backup copy' and ' Save AutoRecover info every 2 Min'. Template Backups Normal.dotm When newly blank document crashes, it is possible the problem persists in normal.dotm. Try renaming the existing normal.dotm to oldnormal.dotm and reopen word to recreate a new normal.dotm. The location for normal.dotm are as follows:.
Office 2008: /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/Normal.dotm. Word 2004: /Documents/Microsoft User Data/Normal.
Word X, Word 2001, Word 98: /Applications/Microsoft Office./Templates/Normal (where. stands for your version of Office) If by chance the normal.dotm location is changed, the normal.dotm can be located by opening Microsoft Office WordPreferencesFile Locations dialog to confirm its location. If the old normal.dotm is corrupt and there are customizations in old Normal that you don't want to lose such as macros, AutoText, custom toolbars, and styles you can transfer them from OldNormal to your new Normal using Organizer. Restore customization from old Normal to new Normal.
Open Word. Use FileOpen to navigate to the template location noted above. Change the Show drop-down list to Word Templates. Choose Normal or Normal.dotm and click Open. Title Bar at the top of the Word window must show 'Normal' otherwise, repeat from step 1. Click on ToolsTemplates and Add-ins dialog, click the Organizer button. Just below the left window, Organizer should be showing Styles available In: Normal (global template) Otherwise you've got the wrong one open.
Start again from step 1. The right window of the Organizer should be blank. There is a Close File button below the left-hand window, and a Close File button below the right-hand window. Click the button on the right. You should now be able to see your old Normal Template in the directory; if you cannot, search until you find it.
Choose it, and Open it. At the top of the Organizer dialog, above both windows, there is a row of tabs, one for each kind of resource the Organizer can copy. Click the tab for the kind of item you want to bring back. Lets assume you want to bring your styles back: Click the Styles tab. Organizer now shows you a list of the items available within each kind (if you clicked the Styles tab in the previous step, you see a list of the styles in each template).
The left window lists the items in your new template, the right window lists the items in the old template. In the right-hand window, choose the item(s) you want to restore. You can select more than one. Click copy. Repeat for each additional kind of resource you wish to copy. Click Close File under both windows.
Hold down your Shift key and choose Save All from the File menu. Save All does not appear unless you hold down your shift key. Quit Word and restart it (to force it to update its preferences). All the settings should be transfered.
Today announced that it’s bringing a new user interface design to its Office apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. This new look will be in line with the the company launched last year and will roll out to both the Office.com online apps and the Office desktop tools over the course of the next few months. Besides the overall switch to the Fluent Design System, which is essentially Microsoft’s take on what Google is doing with Material Design, there are three major changes to the design of the Office apps. The most obvious is the redesigned and simplified Ribbon — though Microsoft is taking a very cautious approach with rolling this new feature out to all users.
While it was a bit controversial when it first launched in Office 2007, most users quickly got used to the Ribbon and Microsoft quickly brought it to virtually all its Windows and online applications. With this update, Microsoft is collapsing the traditional three-row view into a single line that highlights the most important features.
Users who want the traditional view can still expand the simplified Ribbon and get that full view. Microsoft is clearly aware that this is going to be a controversial move, so it’s only launching the new Ribbon for the web version of Word for now.
Some Office Insiders will also see it in Outlook for Windows in July. For now, though, the company is holding back on a wider rollout. “Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows offer our deepest, richest feature set – and they’re the preferred experience for users who want to get the most from our apps,” the company writes in today’s announcement. “Users have a lot of ‘muscle memory’ built around these versions, so we plan on being especially careful with changes that could disrupt their work. We aren’t ready to bring the simplified ribbon to these versions yet because we feel like we need more feedback from a broader set of users first. But when we do, users will always be able to revert back to the classic ribbon with one click.” The other major visual overhaul here is a new set of colors and icons.
Unlike the new Ribbon, these design changes will make their way to all the Office applications soon. The Web version of Word at Office.com will get it first, followed by an Insider release for Word, Excel and PowerPoint on Windows later this month. Outlook for Windows will follow in July, with Outlook for Mac getting it this update in August.
Another new feature that’s less about the design but the user experience is the launch of what Microsoft calls ‘zero query search.” This AI- and Microsoft Graph-powered feature is meant to bring up useful recommendations for your searches every time you place your cursor into the search box. For commercial users, this feature is already live in Office.com, SharePoint Online and the Outlook mobile app. It’ll roll out to Outlook on the web in August.