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Posted on the Service Status page at 6:30 UTC:

Final status: We reverted the change that was causing impact and refreshed the service-side caching. We’ve confirmed through telemetry that impact was successfully remediated. Users should refresh their browser or restart the application to ensure the client-side caches are updated.
Start time: Thursday, April 10, 2025, at 7:00 AM UTC
End time: Thursday, April 10, 2025, at 6:00 PM UTC
Preliminary root cause: A recent change caused license information to incorrectly populate, leading to impact.
Next steps:
– To help prevent similar impact in the future, we’re further reviewing our testing and validation processes prior to deployment.
This is the final update for the event.

Moderator Edit: to remove HTML from copy/paste. When you copy/paste, please use the “Text” tab in the Entry Box, or use the menu selection “Paste as Text” to avoid adding HTML coding

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satrow, b, MikeAL8

The Rufus program recommended by Evit in https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/windows-11-23h2-install-with-local-account/#post-2640751 worked for me.

This was an uncommon situation. I rebuilt an old PC with new motherboard, CPU, etc. and a Win11Pro OEM license with DVD. Neither the motherboard nor the DVD contained any drivers for Ethernet or WiFi, but I had to download the drivers from the mb’s support site. Catch22: can’t load the drivers without installing Windows, but can’t install Windows without a working internet connection. None of the other workarounds mentioned in this thread worked. I finally stumbled on a mention of Rufus, which has a simple option to suppress the MS account requirement. My administrator account is still a local one, which hasn’t caused any problems.

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John, satrow

@glnz: Mary mentioned that in the article: “the free DocTools AddAutoCorrect add-in from Lene Fredborg will put it on the menu for you”.

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Mary Branscombe

Susan, you said in the article “Some domain choices involve underscores or dashes, which can also make it difficult to communicate the name.” It can be worse than that. Since I set up my personal website more than a decade ago with a dash in the domain name and use a few addresses in that domain for my main email, I’ve run into a handful of commercial sites that refuse to recognize those addresses as syntactically valid. The problem is obviously in their validation algorithms, but there’s no hope of getting them to change.

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ibe98765

The symptoms sound the same as the ones in http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/different-menu-when-picture-drag-dropped-into/. Although that thread concerned Word 2013, and it never reached a solid solution, there are some workarounds that may be useful.

The repair program is called scanpst.exe, and it should be in the same folder with the Outlook program. Instructions are at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/272227. It can fix many — but not all — problems in PST files.

It does work in Word 2013 for me.

Documentation and another method at http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/openmostrecentlyused.htm.

I ran the entire series of Win10 preview builds in VirtualBox 4.3. Starting late May, most of the Universal apps (News, Money, etc.) either crashed immediately or displayed only a blank window. That was finally fixed by finding the 4.3.31 Guest Additions build. (I tried VirtualBox 5.0, but it crashed repeatedly. I don’t recall what built that was, but it wasn’t a test build.)

I finally go fed up and installed Win10 on VMware Player. It runs perfectly, with no issues.

This is the macro you need. Read the comments for explanations.

Code:

Sub Demo()
Dim optOldWrapType As WdWrapTypeMerged
‘save the existing option setting
optOldWrapType = Options.PictureWrapType
‘change to the Behind Text setting for this macro
Options.PictureWrapType = wdWrapMergeBehind

Application.ScreenUpdating = False
‘paste special as a bitmap (you can’t specify GIF or JPG)
Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteBitmap
Selection.ShapeRange.LockAspectRatio = msoFalse
‘resize — the values must be in Points, so convert inches
Selection.ShapeRange.Height = InchesToPoints(4)
Selection.ShapeRange.Width = InchesToPoints(5.51)

Application.ScreenUpdating = True
‘restore the user’s original option setting
Options.PictureWrapType = optOldWrapType
End Sub

In the “Item” dropdown in that dialog, select one of the kinds of things that have the wrong font. For example, it looks like “ToolTip” is one of those (the popup above the Panda icon is a ToolTip); others might be “Menu”, “Active Title Bar”, and “Inactive Title Bar”.

When you select an item that can have text, the Font and Size dropdowns will become enabled. Change those to the desired values. The default for most or all the items is Segoe UI font at 9 point size.

Going back to the original question, it is not necessary to uninstall Office before upgrading the operating system, regardless of whether you keep the old drive or move to an SSD. When you uninstall Office 2007, it doesn’t “report back” to Microsoft to free up the license or anything like that.

If you do an in-place upgrade, Office doesn’t really notice that at all, it just keeps working. If you have to do a wipe-and-clean-install, Office will probably re-activate over the Internet the same as when it was first installed, unless you’ve changed more things in the computer than just the OS. If necessary, though, you can use telephone activation (the dialog should tell you the phone number to call), and you’ll get a new product key.

Office 365 is different — you use your account web page to install and uninstall Office, activating and deactivating licenses — but not Office 2007.

Technically, the building blocks will be loaded whenever you do something in the UI that requires a building block — click Insert > Quick Part, Insert > Cover Page, open the Header or Footer or AutoText gallery, etc. — or execute the Templates.LoadBuildingBlocks() statement. You’ll notice a delay the first time you do one of the UI actions, but not after that in the same session.

The DocMaximize function isn’t needed in the latest Word versions because it no longer has any purpose.

In the old (Word 95 and earlier) versions that contained WordBasic, there were two types of display: Single Document Interface (SDI) allows only one document per program window, and Multiple Document Interface (MDI) allows two or more documents to display child windows inside the main program window (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b2kye6c4.aspx). The purpose of the DocMaximize command was to maximize a child window in an MDI display.

Newer versions of Word, and specifically Word 2013 that’s part of Office 365, do not offer MDI. Every document is always maximized within its program window; only the program window can be maximized, minimized, or restored.

Just edit the macro to comment out or delete the DocMaximize line. (I’d advise updating all macros to replace WordBasic references with their VBA equivalents wherever possible, but that’s probably more work than you want to take on.)

Carlos, I have tested and confirmed that Word 2013 does not put page numbers or other header/footer text on even pages that are inserted by an Odd Page section break, either with or without the Different Odd & Even Pages option. The header/footer text appears only if there is a “real” even page at the end of the section, or if there’s a manual page break before the section break.

Turn on nonprinting characters by clicking the ¶ button on the Home tab, and look at the end of a section that displays the unwanted even-page number. If there’s a dotted line that says “Page Break” at the end of the visible text, delete it. There should be only a double dotted line that says “Section Break (Odd Page)”.

I’m sorry it took me a while to get back here.

To remove the need to have a reference to the library (which I think is the “Microsoft Office xx.x Object Library”), you can declare the equivalent value as a constant at the beginning of the same module with your macro:

Const myTextOrientationHorizontal = 1

and replace the mso constant in the AddTextbox call with this constant.

I wouldn’t use the same name as the constant defined in the library, in case some user has the library reference for some other reason; in that case you risk a “duplicate definition” error.