Office 2013 UI questions

I am about to roll out a mixture of Office 2013 and Office 365 Pro Plus, finalizing UI and GPO settings, have a couple things I am wrestling with.
1. Is there a way via GPO or registry edits to set the default "Office Background" to "No Background"? I am not talking about the office theme, but the office background. I found where you can DISABLE backgrounds via GPO. But that is
not what I am trying to do here, I want to set the background to a certain default background (no background) as the default, but not completely remove the users ability to set a background themselves. Setting disable in the GPO sets it so the user cannot
set the background at all.
2. MS Word, is there a way to set Word that when you open Word, it goes right into a new blank document rather than the "recent" page. This is confusing to users and I want to set default to the old way which is just open a blank document
3. The "Open" dialog box in all Office Suite components. Is there a way to remove our Office 365 Sharepoint link and OneDrive from the open dialog? Or at least re-order it? Also I dont know who came up with this, but "computer" is a bad
way to describe network files. It seems unnecessary for a user to have to click open, then computer, then browse to just get to the network drives... this seems silly. Hint Hint Microsoft, not everyone is using Sharepoint, not everyone likes sharepoint, some
of us will NEVER use Sharepoint, stop trying to force us to use it...
4. Completely remove sharepoint integration? Can you do this? I want no reference to Sharepoint in Office

Re1: I haven't found a way to change Office Background via GPO, but we try to enable the Disable Office Backgrounds, it will disable the Office Background option and set it to No Background.
Group Policy location: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Office 2013 (Machine)\Miscellaneous
Re2: The function is want to disable is called Office Start Screen. We can disable it via OCT or GPO. To do it via GPO, set the "Disable the Office
Start screen for all Office applications" group policy to Enabled.
Group Policy location: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Office 2013\Miscellaneous
For more information, please refer:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/odsupport/archive/2012/11/19/how-to-manage-the-start-screen-for-all-microsoft-office-2013-applications.aspx
Re3: I haven't found a way to change this, it seems a hard-coded feature.
Re4: You can refer to this:
http://inoblog.com/sharepoint-client-integration-issues/
Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft
does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Hope this helps.
Best Regards,
Steve Fan
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Hello,
we have software assurance, so MAK and KMS are available for O2013.
I cannot use KMS server (there are reasons for now). So I have to use MAK. I know that it is possible later on to convert MAK to KMS.
I found topic about ADBA. But missing few points from the description after my 2 questions.
1. Can I use KMS key for use with Volume Activation Tool without actually having KMS installed?
2. at the end it says just 180 days activation. What will happen then?
From:
http://searchenterprisedesktop.techtarget.com/tip/Using-Active-Directory-activation-and-other-new-Office-2013-tools
-------Prior to Office 2013, IT had to rely on Multiple Activation Key (MAK) or Key Management Service (KMS) activation. These processes were generally more complex than ADBA. Little has changed with either MAK or KMS in Office 2013. With ADBA, however,
IT can easily
activate Office 2013 clients through their connections to the domain.
To implement ADBA, administrators must use the Volume Activation Tools utility, which walks them through the setup process. After admins supply the KMS host key, the setup process adds an activation object to the
Active Directory Domain Services. The activation object uses the same Generic Volume Licenses Key (GVLK) and KMS host pair as that for regular KMS activation. When the client joins the domain, the activation object automatically activates the Office installation,
granting a license to the client for 180 days. --------------
--- When you hit a wrong note its the next note that makes it good or bad. --- Miles Davis
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Lync and Office 2013 Home and Business 'Present PowerPoint' not working

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'the presentatio.ppx couldn't be converted for presentation because Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is not installed on this computer. Please install VBA and try again.'
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Here a few who also experienced the same issue
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/3cf4f93e-3e98-4a72-aa6a-83e92408837c/message-error-visual-basic-for-applications-vba-is-not-installed-office-home-business-2013-?forum=ocsclients
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f336fc74-c821-4473-b9d9-df62267a3180/lync-2013-and-office-web-apps-powerpoint-presentation-sharing-missing-vba?forum=lyncconferencing
http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/166/t/123920.aspx
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_365hp-powerpoint/lync-2013-and-office-web-apps-powerpoint/71abcef9-0b6b-4fe1-944e-789b53da3f1e
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Hello friend,
I've never heard the limit of the number for one Microsoft Account, there shouldn't be a limit as I know, and One product key should only be able to activate one machine, if you attempt to use it activate a second machine, there should be a prompt.
It seems you don't have "too many" machines in your organization, you can refer to the below:
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/537
We can find the license keys for Office 2013 via a script from Microsoft:
Office 2013 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows
cscript
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS" /dstatus
Office 2013 (32-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS" /dstatus
Office 2013 (64-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS" /dstatus
It only displays the last 5 characters, but in most cases you can tell which key this machine is using.
You may also need contact Microsoft's phone service when you need activation issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/customer-service-phone-numbers/en-us
I hope this helps on your scenario.

Problem with multiple copies of Office 2013 in same account

Hi,
Over the last year or more we have replaced PCs in the office and bought one copy of Office Home & Business 2013 for each. We follow the correct installation procedure and each time another Office Home & Business gets added to the list in our office.com
account. They all look identical - there is nothing to indicate when they were installed, the PC they were installed on etc.
Recently, we had one install of Office that refused to start. We tried and failed to repair the installation as suggested, so moved on to uninstall/reinstall. I noticed there was an different id in the code of each of the install buttons when we look at
the long list of identical 30 Office H+Bs we have in our account. No idea which we should pick, or whether it matters, so picked a random one. Installation finished. I had to phone up to activate as it complained that this was already a registered
product. Completed this and got Office back working.
That was yesterday. Today I switched on another PC which was very recently set up but not in use yet and found Office had stopped working on this too. I'm concerned now that the installation download is locked to one particular installation and if so, how
do I know which one is which, so I don't spend the rest of the year wandering round reinstalling office on PCs and finding I've broken it on another one each time?!
Yes, I know volume licensing may be more sensible for a business but we don't renew everything at once, and most of our PCs now have a standalone license which covers them probably for at least 4-5 years.
thanks
Darren

What is the error that the Office stopped working for? I wonder if it's Key related. Try running it in Safe Mode to test the result.
Generally, if you just uninstalled and reinstalled, you don't need to put in the product key again. If you really need to know "which one is which", try this:
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/537
We can find the license keys for Office 2013 via a script from Microsoft:
Office 2013 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows
cscript
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS" /dstatus
Office 2013 (32-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS" /dstatus
Office 2013 (64-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15\OSPP.VBS" /dstatus
It only displays the last 5 characters, but should be enough to tell which is which.

Office 2013 partialy virtualized breaks Outlook2013

Hi,
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2013 and installed in the base image with the Office 2013 installer. Then each time Outlook is started it gets repaired. When the AppV is unpublished this behaviour stops.
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nice to give most users the base like Outlook,Word,Excel and Accessruntime. And some privileged users the Access,Visio Project AppV package as addition.
Is this scenario possible with AppV 5 or should all parts be installed native and use a some sort of user profile control to control who gets what?
regards,
Leon.

Use a clean machine for ODT, I use a VM with snapshots.
See:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/2bda7882-80d1-4ebc-a6e8-32d47f74aaad/office-2013-packageguid?forum=mdopappv#9c5478e8-9cac-434d-bd50-f59b0aae13f7

? Office 2013 to support Excel 2003 (XLS) spreadsheets containing VBA CommandBars references

Thanks in advance for reading this and offering any wisdom you have! I am not an expert in any of the following, so apologies if off base.
The basic problem is: I need to use Excel 2013 to support Excel 2003 (XLS) spreadsheets containing VBA 'CommandBars' references which don't seem to work in Excel 2013. Details below.
Most of our users are still using older desktop windows PCs and Office 2003! We are beginning to upgrade to laptops running Windows 8.1 with Office 2013. Of course, we IT technical people are using the new laptops first. These new laptops are
64 bit.
Years ago, someone did a lot of development with spreadsheets here in Excel 2003 file formats that automates many activities and routines. Now we with the new laptops are having to support this development using new machines.
There is a basic compatibility issue that appears when first opening these Excel 2003 files that have VBA code that I'll detail below; I seem able to get by that problem.
The current problem appears to be that the existing Excel 2003 VBA code has many references to: "For Each bar In Application.CommandBars". As I've learned, the Application.CommandBars VBA functionality is focused on older MS Office versions' menu
commands, but "...Starting from Office 2007 the Fluent UI is used instead." In other words, because MS Office isn't menu-driven beginning with version 2007 (uses 'the ribbon'), it appears that these references to: "For Each bar In Application.CommandBars"
create a basic incompatibility to opening these spreadsheets in Office 2013.
For a spreadsheet, after I resolve the issue detailed below and save it, when I reopen it I encounter error "Compile error: can't find project or library."
For example, the following code snippet:
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
For Each bar In Application.CommandBars
bar.Enabled = False
Next
results in: "Compile error: can't find project or library."
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I went into VBE's menu: Tools>References and check for anything marked MISSING, which I deselected. But I am still receiving this error.
I don't want to get into changing the code a lot to support both Excel 2003 and 2013 (I am no VBA expert, just a dabbler).
And Microsoft officially says that Office 2003 is incompatible with Windows 8 although Application.CommandBars seem to be somewhat supported in Office 2013 .
Are you aware of a quick VBA workaround to get by this?
•I could comment out the validations, commands for: "For Each bar In Application.CommandBars" but then the spreadsheet code probably won't work for users using Office 2003.
Alternatives would be:
•Installing Office 2003 on my Win 8.1 64 bit laptop anyway, in spite of MS's saying incompatible, since this thread discusses at least one person has been able to use Office 2003
•Keeping one older PC with Office 2003 on it for us to support the old Office 2003 code until everyone upgrades their systems
Thanks
Basic compatibility issue that seems solvable:
Opening these spreadsheets displays this error:
Compile error:
The code in this project must be updated for use on 64-bit systems.
Please review and update Declare statements and then mark them with the PtrSafe attribute.
This seems resolvable by going into the VBA code and just adding element 'PtrSafe' where functions are declared; in other words, replacing VBA code "Declare Function" with "Declare PtrSafe Function" seems to get by this.

Hi Allan_L,
Please try the methods that provided above. And this is the forum to discuss questions and feedback for Microsoft Excel, your issue is related to Excel DEV, if you have further question, I recommend you post the question to the MSDN forum for Excel
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Lenovo G560 and Office 2013 installation problems.

I recently acquired a copy of Office 2013 and I upgraded my office 2010 to 2013. However, I get a response that some office packages could not open because set up could not find or validate an installition file. Please try reinstalling office from the installation source, or if you installed from a downloaded package, please redownload and reinstall. I have tried severally to reinstall but still facing the same problem. The only Office 15 package that work is Powerpoint. Im running Office on a Lenovo G560 core i3 processer, 3GB RAM and 320 HDD. The Office 15 package is OFFICE 2013 VL. Please help. I am desperate. Please help.

hi onyanchaerick,
If the above procedure doesn't work, you can also try to:
1. Fully remove MS Office 2010 by following this or this guide.
2. If you have an Office Professional Plus 2013, download a trial version here, then activate it with your full version product key.
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