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PDF exports missing table tags
I've started noticing this problem with multiple documents exported to PDF from Word. The issue is that the accessibility tags for the table content are <P> instead of <TH>, <TD>, etc. I was able to replicate the problem myself, using a Save as... method that retains accessibility features in the PDF. In other words, the PDF has bookmarked headings, alt-text for images, and so forth. It's just that some of the tables are tagged as regular text, though they are formatted as tables with header rows in the original Word document. I asked this question to a few colleagues, and one suggested that the table border settings might be causing the problem. Indeed, when I changed the cell borders from "none" to black, the PDF did show table tags. As you are probably aware, this is not a workable solution in academia, where style guides often have strict requirements for table design, including no vertical cell borders. One thing that worked was adding white borders--the table with white borders exported properly to PDF. Unfortunately, adding white vertical borders makes the black horizontal borders look like dashed lines (also, it is going to make a ton of work for the document creators). I would be so grateful for any ideas on how to solve this.
OneDrive for Business Offline folder issue
I have a series of left over OneDrive business offline folders from the companies that I were associated with before. My access were removed and I do not need them now. Yet I am not able to remove them off from my PC. My respective company ITs do not know what they need to do to allow me the deletion on my PC. The problems of these folders have componded to an extent that it started to conflict with my personal OneDrive. Now I cannot open any file or folder on my offline folder using explorer. Something terrible must have happened to that Cloud module that appears on the top ribbon of File explorer. On taking this issue with L1 they did a W10 update. after which other cloud services as dropbox have started to malfunction the same way as OneDrive. Later from the OneDrive forum, https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/onedrive-offline-file-explorer-window-hangs/ed575ad0-54b1-45c5-8318-9ff943e2f819?page=2 I found that by creating a new profile that is an escape. Only I notice that is short lived. As there are differences in the folders synched to offline. I am trying out with the admin center for a solution other than having to format my hard disk and reinstall everything.
Copying Excel spreadsheet
Hello Have created a group form and would like to use this form as a template for different events. Excel spreadsheet with responses is used with links and formulas in other worksheets. How can this spreadsheet containing the formulas be used as a template to use with other forms ie trying to avoid having to recreate the other worksheets that contain the formulas. Have tried various workaround which don't work: 1 Duplicate form / delete responses = does not delete responses from spreadsheet 2 Copy worksheet to new spreadsheet = does not work as the spreadsheet filename is part of the formula, so refers to the original spreadsheet (have tried find/replace all, but very cumbersome) Any suggestions, would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Andrea
Excel College Student SOS
Hey! College student here. I've been jumping through hoops trying to understand Excel. I'm not sure if Microsoft Excel has changed because this is my first experience with the whole ordeal. The homework given from my (ACG Excel class basically) has me following directions and I can't find the Smart Lookup tool in the Review tab??? There are so many features I cannot simply find in the Ribbon. Also, the Ribbon looks different. Not necessarily like the original. Someone please help me out of my misery.Helping my younger sibling stay on track with summer assignments in Word
Hi! My younger brother is really struggling with summer assignments this year. Heโs supposed to write a few essays using Microsoft Word, but writing has never been his strong suit. Weโve tried using templates and even OneNote to organize ideas, but he still feels overwhelmed and stuck. Iโve been helping him as much as I can, but Iโm wondering if thereโs a better way to support him. Has anyone else had this kind of experience? What tools or approaches worked for you to help a younger student write better, especially when motivation is low?Problem connecting segmentations to the map
Hi community! Iโm having some trouble with an Excel map I created. Iโve built a geographical map in Excel to track sales and distribution for my product in Mexico. The idea is to segment the map by regions, so that when I select a region using a slicer (segmentation box), the map should update to show only the provinces within that region and how the product is distributed there. However, when I select a region, the map displays provinces that donโt belong to the selected region, and I canโt figure out why this is happening. I hope this explanation makes senseโplease let me know if you need more details. If youโre familiar with Excel maps and have a moment to take a look, Iโd really appreciate your help. Thank you in advance, and best regards, AndreaShortcuts to favourite formats in Excel for Web
We're switching to excel for web more and more. In my desktop excel, i have 6-8 favourite formats stored as simple macros, and short cut buttons in the quick access toolbear It makes it really easy to tidy up worksheets. Is there a way to achieve the same within excel for web? I know i can't add macros, but quick access to favourite formats makes life much easier
Not able to logon office 365 account or change it
If I want to logon to my Office 365 account I have to enter my emailaddress. Its is an @.onmicrosoft.com account. Entering password is ok, but then I am have to verify my phone number. The last two digits are shown, but clicking on this phone number I am getting an error like: 399287. There is no way of resetting this. I already contacted helpdesk but they cannot solve this problem. I have a bussniess account and I need some help about this. Every time I want to reset or want to make a change the account I am stuck in this error screen (endless loop). Please help me.New Install
I have installed 365 on a new computer. All of the office apps work except Access. It will not open any of my existing DB's or create a new one. No error msg. Just returns to the FILE tab. Shows no history. Same result with local db file or network. I've tried uninstalling 365 and reinstalling. Uneventful with same behavior. Dell Inspiron15 3520 Win 11 ProReuse Slides Button in the Ribbon: Unavailable by Design๐
๐๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ๐ธ! ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ญ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฐ๐๐ฒ Microsoft has officially announced that the Reuse Slides Button will be deprecated on July 31, 2025 (Message Id MC 1111178). Just so you know, only a short notice was provided. It was announced on July 7, 2025 in the Admin Message Center. โ๐๐๐ซ๐โ๐ฌ ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐๐พ Details in this blog: POWERPOINT REUSE SLIDES MISSING TRACCreations4E #traccreations4e-p25 7/11/2025
Irregular date calculations in large spreadsheet
I've been managing finances for a long time now in Excel. It has grown to 11.500 lines over a period of 20 years en recently my date calculations start to give #VALUE outcomes. The formula in line 11498 is "=ALS(H11498<>"";H11498+7;D11498+14)" The field H11498 contains a date (25-6-2025) and has cell characters of a date. Similar formula in 11497 works like a charm. 11498, 11499 and 11500 give #VALUE 11501 works like a charm again. Any ideas? Have I run out of Excels possibilities in regards to the size of the spreadsheet?
Microsoft.SharePoint.exe issues
I have been getting random prompts from my W11 PC telling me that in order to synchronise my lists I have to authenticate, but when I click on this to do so, the dialog that pops up has the wrong account displayed (another one of mine that I use for professional work as opposed to my personal account, which is what should be in use) and there is no way for me to tell it that this is the wrong account; I checked my OneDrive settings (since it's an M365 tool) and it is already set to use the correct account. I have established that the executable responsible for this is Microsoft.SharePoint.exe - yes, a desktop executable called SharePoint. It is a Microsoft application and it resides at C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive\23.071.0402.0001, so it would appear that it may be something to do with OneDrive . I have attached a screenshot so you can see what I am talking about. I need a mechanism by which to instruct this login dialog that it is using the wrong account.How to instal MathType into Word
I am using Microsoft Office 365 on a 2021 iMac M1 computer with 16 GB MEMORY running Sonoma 14.5. I have received a warning message that the MathType addon is not installed. When I try to install it, the Install Addons option is greyed out. I spent about 45 minutes with Microsoft Word support, and they did not know how to fix it, and referred me here. I have reinstalled Office 365 twice and that has not fixed the problem. Help me, please, if anyone can. ThanksEntraExporter Tool Exports Details of an Entra ID Tenant
The EntraExporter toolis a PowerShell module that generates details of objects in an Entra ID tenant configuration (like groups, policies, and users) and creates JSON files. Itโs a great way to capture point-in-time information about Entra ID (Azure AD) configuration. Although you canโt replay the captured data to recreate objects, having all the information available is a great start if you need to restore or replay anything. https://office365itpros.com/2023/08/24/entraexporter-tool/Create an Excel-based form that is instanced for each user and connects to Power Automate
I'm trying to standardize and simplify a process at my job because we receive the request type in the picture in several different formats via email and there are no parameters for the fields, so we end up with a lot of garbage/incorrect entries that we need to clean up every week. While I've used Excel in all my office jobs, I'm not as versed in it as this task seemingly requires. What I have so far is the form below, which can be "submitted" with all the relevant data being written to a separate sheet. Ideally, if possible, managers would access this form through our company Sharepoint and only be able to view an instanced version unique to them, so multiple users could theoretically access the form and submit requests at the same time without seeing others' entries. Then whatever data they enter would be written to a separate Excel sheet/workbook that only the relevant team can view, where payment amounts are split into different lines based on Job and Sub Job. The ultimate goal would then be to have Power Automate put together an Excel spreadsheet that we can upload into our ERP. If we can automate this process to a point where we just need to check for accuracy, we'd save hours every week. Is what I'm trying to do even possible with Excel, and if not, is there a better avenue in the Microsoft Office suite? I would love to be pointed in the right direction so I can research and learn. I've looked into making a Microsoft Forms version of this sheet, but it seems more suited to simpler form entries, at least as far as I can tell.Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK V2.29 Now Available
Version 2.29 of the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK can now be downloaded from the PowerShell Gallery. Initial tests show that the release is stable. However, itโs recommended that you deploy V2.29 on a few workstations to test essential scripts before proceeding to a full-scale roll-out. V2.29 does not address the issue with PowerShell runtime in Azure Automation, but overall, first indications are that V2.29 is a good release. https://office365itpros.com/2025/07/11/microsoft-graph-powershell-sdk229/
How to automatically login and refresh a spreadsheet using a plug-in?
Hi. I have a requirement to automatically refresh a spreadsheet's data. I'm an Excel novice and have no idea how to do this automatically. To refresh the data in a manual fashion, I perform the following steps: 1) Open the Excel file. 2) Click on the iLEVEL menu option (it's on the top amongst other menu options such as 'Data', 'Review', Automate', etc..). This will present an iLEVEL login icon. Click on this icon and then enter my email address and password. In fact, once I've entered my work email, it uses SSO to gain access instead of entering a password. I do have a password should I need it (needs to be entered somewhere). 3) On the toolbar ribbon, under the iLEVEL menu option, there is the 'Refresh All' option. I click on this, wait a few minutes, and the spreadsheet has its data refreshed. iLEVEL is a third-party software solution. What I need to do is to achieve the above result automatically. At, say, 3am each morning, I would like automatically refresh the data. So there is the need to not only automatically login and refresh the data, but also to schedule the data refresh. The updated spreadsheet will then act as the data source for our reporting. In case it's asked, at this time, we cannot look to hook into the view/table that feeds this spreadsheet. Therefore, the spreadsheet is the endpoint. I will investigate this but if you are aware if this can be done or not, and point me in the right direction, it will be appreciated. I'm wondering if Power Query, or something similar, could achieve this. Thanks.
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