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Problem: How to create a custom templates in Office 2013? Solution: The custom templates you created using an earlier version of Office are still there, but Office 2013 doesn’t show them by default. Instead when you open an Office 2013 program, you’ll see the Office.com templates. If you want to see your custom templates on the Personal tab when you start an Office program. Browse to the following location to save you templates. 1.Click Start > Run, and then type %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates\ in the Open box. 2.Copy the address in the File Explorer address bar. 3.Click File > Options > Save, and then paste the address into the Default personal templates location box. 4. Save the template file as .dotm(Word Macro Enabled Template). Make sure you do this for each Office program. After you’ve updated your template location, any new templates will be saved to this default location. If this will not work try the below fixit. http://office.microsoft.com/en-u...

Problem: How to Import .eml files in outook 2013? Solution: An .eml message is either an email saved in old outlook express or windows live mail. To import all those emails or a folder containing emails with .eml format you have two choices. 1. Setup the same email program on your computer and import them again and export them in outlook, but in some windows version you may not able to install the old program due to compatibility then you have the second choice. 2. Use a third party program to import email messages and export them in outlook 2013. you can use this free program to import the .eml emails. http://www.outlookfreeware.com/en/products/all/OutlookMessagesImportEML/ Hope this will work for you all.!!

Problem: Excel 2013 right click doesn't work in spreadsheet. Solution: Check if excel works in safe mode. 1. Hold Windows key + R. 2. Copy and paste, or type the following command in the Open box, and then press Enter: Excel /safe Note: There is space between Excel and / If Excel safe works, disable the add-ins following steps mentioned below and determine the problem causing add-in:  Try deleting following key from registry. Excel 2007. Go to regedit and delete  Options  entry from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\ and verify the result. Note: • Hold Windows key + R. • Copy and paste, or type the following command in the Open box, and then press Enter: regedit HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Options right click on  Options  and delete it. Note : Ensure to back up the registry before any modification or deletion. a) Locate and click the key or subkey that you want to back up. b) Click...

Problem: Outlook 2013 crashes after latest windows update?. Solution: If your outlook was working fine before the windows update then you need to check the following update in the windows update list and download the hotfix to resolve the issue. Hotfix Download link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2825652 Windows update link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2850061 How to follow it: 1. Download any of the file on your desktop. 2. Install it on your computer. 3. Restart your computer. 4. Open your outlook.

Problem: Outlook error" Search doesn’t display any results at all while searching for emails." Solution: There are a couple of levels at which Instant Search in Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 can break. You can troubleshoot Instant Search in the mentioned order in this article. Marked for indexing . First let us check if the pst-file or mailbox has been marked to be indexed. Outlook 2007 Tools-> Options-> Search Options… In the Indexing section you can select which data file to index. Outlook 2010 File-> Options-> section Search-> button Indexing Options…-> button Modify-> expand Microsoft Outlook Make sure that your pst-file or mailbox is displayed and selected. If it is not listed, you’ll have to recreate your mail profile.  Outlook 2013 File-> Options-> section Search-> button Indexing Options…-> button Modify Check for pst-file corruptions  If your pst-file has been marked but Outlook doesn’t display the corre...

Problem: Outlook error "Password prompt in outlook 2010/2007." Solution: Browse to; C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Protect Make a backup of this folder while all other programs are closed and then delete that folder. See if your passwords are remembered now. You might need to enter them a single time when you start Outlook for the first time after this. To quickly access the folder, you can type or paste the above path in the Address Bar of Windows Explorer. Note 1: You can also use this solution when Windows Mail or Windows Live Mail doesn’t remember your password.

Problem: Outlook 2013 Error" Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.” Solution: While there are various reasons for this to occur in outlook 2010/2013. In these instances, the configuration file for the Navigation Pane gets corrupted and prevents Outlook from starting successfully. To recover, you can start Outlook with the resetnavpane switch; Method 1 Windows 8 and 8.1 Window button+R -> outlook.exe /resetnavpane Windows Vista and Windows 7 Start-> type; outlook.exe /resetnavpane Windows XP Start-> Run; outlook.exe /resetnavpane Please note the space between outlook.exe and /resetnavpane. Method 2 1. Click Start, and then click Run. 2. Copy and paste, or type the following command in the Open box, and then press ENTER: control panel Note If you are using a 64-bit version of Windows, double-click View 32-bit Control Panel in Control Panel to display the Mail icon. 3. Open the Mail Setup dialog box: For Windows 7: If...

Problem: Outlook 365 Error: "Can't set up Outlook 365 Exchange email account" Cause: 1.If you are trying to configure your outlook 2013 with auto discover mode(Auto). 2.If the previous version of outlook had some settings that new outlook 2013 doesn't support. 3.If the Existing outlook profile do not recognize the default settings. Solution: 1.Configuring Outlook Anywhere In most cases, when your company has made Outlook Anywhere available to you, Auto Account Setup will be able to find the correct settings for you via AutoDiscover. In that case, all you have to do is provide your name, email address and password, wait until Outlook locates your settings and you are good to go. Note: In some cases, you might get prompted for your username and password again in a separate dialog. Depending on the configuration of the Exchange infrastructure and domain of your company, you may need to change the username in that password dialog from your email address t...

Problem: There was a problem sending the command to the program Excel 2013 Error. Solution: There could be different reasons for this error to appear in office 2013 applications after upgrading from the old office versions. Fix it: 1.Open RUN window(Windows Key + R). 2.Type Regedit and press enter key. 3. Click on file and Export a back of registry on desktop. 4. Navigate Hey_Classes_Root\Key\Excel.openspredsheet.12\shell\open\command 5. Change the key value: EXCEL.EXE /dde < to > EXCEL.EXE /e "%1". 6.Save it by pressing F5 key from keyboard. 7. Try to open your excel documents. Note: If after changing the above registry value did not resolve the issue.You can try to changing the same value for all other excel key hives in registry. You can also try doing this. 1.Click the File tab, and then click Options. 2.Click Advanced, scroll down to the General section, and then clear the Ignore other applications that use 3.Dynamic Data Exchange (...