Office

1. An office is the name given to a location where someone works or where official business takes place.

2. Office or Microsoft Office is a collection or package of software programs commonly used in an office environment. Although this collection is commonly referred to as Office, it is more appropriate to include the version of Office, for example, Office 2000 or Office XP. The Microsoft Office suites can include: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft OneNote, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Access.

Additional information and help with Microsoft Office and its products can also be found on our Microsoft Office section.

Also see: Clippy, Cubicle, iWork, LibreOffice, Office 365, OpenOffice, Presentation program, Software definitions, SOHO, Spreadsheet, StarOffice, Task pane, Virtual office, Word processor

How to merge or combine multiple files?

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How to merge or combine multiple files?

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If you would like to merge multiple Word, Excel or Text files together, it can be done with relative ease, and at no extra cost. Follow the below steps for the type of file you're trying to merge. Merging Microsoft Word documents Merging Microsoft Excel files Merge a text (.txt) file in the Windows command line Merge a file in the Linux command line Merge PDF files Merging Microsoft Word documents To merge Word documents, you can merge those documents within Microsoft Word itself. To do this, open the first file in MS Word, and follow the steps for your version of Word. The steps are different because of the changes between the file menu and the Office ribbon. Microsoft Word 2010 or later (ribbon) Microsoft Word 2007 or earlier (file menu) Microsoft Word 2010 or later (ribbon) From the Word ribbon, click Insert at the top of the menu and then click the down arrow next to Object and then Text from File (as shown below).

Select the file you wish to merge into the current document and click Insert. Once completed the text and other information from the document will be merged into the current document. These steps can be completed as many times as you want if you want to merge multiple files. Tip: If there are multiple files you want to merge at the same time you can select multiple files by holding down the Ctrl key and selecting each file you want to merge. Microsoft Word 2007 or earlier (file menu) In Word click on Tools and then Compare and Merge Documents in the menu bar.

Find the document you want to merge. You have the option of merging the selected document into the currently open document or merging the two documents into a new document. To choose the merge option, click the arrow next to the Merge button and select the desired merge option. The files will then be merged.

Tip: If there are multiple files you want to merge at once you can select multiple files by holding down the Ctrl key and selecting each file you want to merge. Merging Microsoft Excel files To merge Microsoft Excel files together, it is best to save them as CSV files first. Open the Excel files and in the menu bar, click File, Save As. In the Save as type drop-down list, select CSV (comma delimited) from the list.

Additional information about creating a CSV file

Do this for each Excel file you want to merge, then place all the CSV files in the same folder. For ease, place them in a folder in the root of the C: drive (e.g. c:\csvfiles). Open the Windows command prompt and navigate to the folder containing the CSV files. Type dir to view the files in the folder and ensure all the files are there. Type in the below command to merge all CSV files in the folder into a new CSV file titled "newfile.csv" (any name could be used). copy *.csv newfile.csv

After the new file has been created open the new CSV file in Microsoft Excel and save it as an Excel file. Merge a text (.txt) file in the Windows command line Place each of the text files you wish to merge in the same folder. For ease, place them in a folder in the root of the C: drive (e.g. c:\textfiles) and make sure the folder only contains text files you want to merge. Tip: Before merging text files you may want to make sure there is a blank line or at least one enter to help separate each file. Open the Windows command prompt and navigate to the folder containing the text files. Type dir to view the files in the folder and ensure all the files are there. Type in the below command to merge all TXT files in the current directory into the file named newfile.txt (any name could be used). copy *.txt newfile.txt Now you can open the text file and see everything merged together as one file. Merge a file in the Linux command line Linux users can merge two or more files into one file using the merge command or lines of files using the paste command. Merge PDF files PDF documents can also be merged. You can use a full version of Adobe Acrobat to do this, but this program is a bit pricy (several hundred dollars). Another option is to find a free utility on the internet to merge your PDF files. One of the better free utilities is PDF Split and Merge. It is an online tool that lets you merge two or more PDF files into one PDF file with a few clicks of your mouse button. You can also download a version of this program, called Batch PDF Merger, and install it on your computer for a small fee (about $30). There are other free utilities online that offer this service. However, if there is any confidential information contained in the PDF files, use caution when merging them online. It is recommended that you use a utility on your computer for these types of PDF file mergers, to ensure the confidential data is kept confidential.

MergePDF - Online utility to merge PDF files up to 30MB. PDFMerge - Another great free utility to merge PDF documents.

What is the normal.dot file?

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What is the normal.dot file?

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The normal.dot file is the default Microsoft Word template. This file is used to store the default settings such as font, font size, content of a file, etc. that is used with each of the Microsoft Word file you open. This can be useful if you find yourself having to adjust the font type, font size, or other setting each time you open Microsoft Word. Where is the normal.dot file located? This all depends on your version of Microsoft Word or office and how you've installed it. However, this file is always located in the template directory. A common location for where the template directory is shown below. C:\Documents and settings\<user name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates How do I modify the normal.dot file? Open the normal.dot file and change the settings you wish to adjust. For example, if you want the default font size to be 14 each time you open Microsoft Word open the normal.dot file change the font size to 14 and save the document. I mistakenly overwrote the normal.dot file. If you've saved another file over the normal.dot, each time you open Microsoft Word that document will be opened. For example, if you've saved a document with "test" in the contents of the file, each time you open a new Microsoft Word document "test" will be shown. To correct this issue delete the contents of the normal.dot file and save the file. Alternatively you can follow the steps listed in the below normal.dot file is corrupted steps. Is this file a virus? Most likely no. However, like any file on the computer this file can become infected by a virus and there have been viruses in the past that target and infect this file. If you believe your computer is infected with a virus run an antivirus scan on the file. The normal.dot file is corrupted.

It is possible for this file to become corrupted because of improper user or other program modification. If you believe this file is corrupted you can follow the below steps. 1. Click Start and click Search, and select Files or folders. 2. In the find window select All files and folders, if prompted. 3. In the File name type: normal.dot and press enter. 4. Once the file has been located right-click the file and click Rename. 5. Rename the file to normal.old and press Enter. Note: If the Search is not finding any files it's likely Windows is not searching for hidden files. In the Search Window click the More Advanced Options and make sure there is a check in the Search hidden files and folders box.

Remove the clipboard toolbar feature from Microsoft Office 2000 programs
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Remove the clipboard toolbar feature from Microsoft Office 2000 programs.

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This document applies to the clipboard toolbar feature in Microsoft Office 2000 programs: Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Outlook 2000, Microsoft Excel 2000, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2000. The Microsoft Office clipboard toolbar (if not already displayed on the toolbar) is displayed by either pressing CTRL+C twice or any type you copy multiple items into the clipboard.

See the clipboard definition for further information and related links.

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In order to disable this feature from all of Microsoft Office, you must edit the registry. 1. Close all Microsoft Office programs. 2. Click Start, Run, and type "regedit" and click ok to Open the Windows registry editor. 3. Open the below folders: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\

Microsoft\ Office\ 9.0\ Common\ General\ 4. Once in the General folder click Edit from the drop-down-menu, click New and then DWORD Value. 5. For the name of the new DWORD, type: Acbcontrol 6. Double-click Acbcontrol to edit it and change the Value data to 1, and click Ok. 7. Close the registry editor. Once the above steps have been completed, your Office programs should no longer display the Microsoft Office clipboard toolbar.