My sister recently gave me her computer. All the Microsoft
programs are already installed but they are under her name
and licensed to her. How do I change the license agreement
so that my name is on the screen when the programs start

I'm interested in creating some web queries, but when I
go to Data | Import External Data menu, all menu items
are disabled.
I tried to add features to Office Small Biz XP and

My question: Is it possible to validate cells within a workbook by using named ranges in another workbook?
I need to validate a number of cells in many Excel workbooks, by allowing only entry of values from a list (named range of cells) in a different central workbook.
What I want ...

I cannot get the macro security option "Trust all
installed Add-Ins and templates" selection to hold. That
is, when I restart Excel it loses the check by it. I
unistalled Office and reinstalled from the original CD,

How do I retain my Toolbar settings so that the icons and
toolbars I select once, continue to appear each time I
open Excel XP?

Work just upgraded our office products and now older
spreadsheets are showing up with row numbers and column
numbers instead of Row Numbers Column Letters. This has
messed up all of the formulas and no one can make changes

Is it possible to have new workbooks open without
gridlines without having to go through the tools/options/
menu each time?

Friends,
Can anyone help me with Excel in Office 2003 regarding
cells always using 2 decimal places for numbers,
regardless of the format selected, either "general"

Whenever I open excel I receive the following error:
Table of Contents. doc is not a valid file format
I have tried deleting all excel.pip files on the computer, but this did not
resolve the issue. If anyone has any suggestions, it would be greatly

How can I stop these bloomin things from popping up
whenever  I start or stop Excel in Office 2000?

I recently got a new computer from my company.  It's
running IE 6 and Office 2003.  I use a web-based Outlook
site to check my e-mail.  In the past, if I opened an
Excel attachment from an e-mail, it would lauch the

Where is this settings stored?  Is it in the registry?  Where do I set this so that it is set for every new workbook that I create?

Anyone know how to turn off the auto fill button that
appears and blocks part of the cell? I find plenty of
other enable/disable options in tools/edit although
nothing that seems to affect auto fill. Thanks.

I know this may sound ridiculous, however I just
installed professional windows xp and I can not find any
icons for word, powerpoint, excel, etc... Where are these
programs located?!?!

I have install Office 2000 on a Win98 computer.
Word (allready installed) and Frontpage are running well.
Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Outlook cannot start.
I got only one error message for missing langage DLL with Access