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Anonymous
2018-01-10T16:32:30+00:00

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Thank you for the response.  My apologies for the tardy reply, but this issue has me a tidbit, well upset, and just had to walk away.  What am I trying to do: when upgrading to MS Office 365 for Mac, my contacts did not convert over properly when following MS instructions and support's help.  After a lot of trial and errors, got them into MS Outlook address book.  Then for some reason, they doubled.  So I am trying to clean up a big mess.

I am also compiling data into a CRM for my real estate work.  I wanted export my Office address book into Excel, print that out and work off that spreadsheet to correct the data in my CRM.  This should be a simple process since I am working in MS Office suite of products, but NO!

I have gone to the link provided to add my complaint there and doubt that will do any good, but I do so anyway.  For the life of me I do not understand why things that should work, don't?  I am coming from Office for Mac 2011 and have now found out that in most of the programs I can not get a full screen preview of how an item will look in printed format before printing.  That little preview they give now is worthless!  At my age I want to SEE before I print!

Again thanks for the help, I will keep looking for another avenue to get things done the way I want them........

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-01-10T11:03:13+00:00

    Hi Daw50,

    Thanks for sharing the feedback. Since you want a full-screen print preview when you set for print, we suggest submitting your feedback in Word UserVoice and Excel UserVoice. Providing your feedback is the best way to let related team hear your voice, which will help better our products and services.

    Here is one suggestion for you, choose File > Print > click the arrow beside PDF > Open PDF in Preview. Then you can see the file in full-screen preview.

    For the headers and footers issue, we suggest you post a new thread, our support engineer will check it. You can add more detailed information in that thread to help our support engineer better understand this issue.

    Regards,

    Joshua

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-01-10T05:01:59+00:00

    Sure.  In the older version of Word for Mac, you would type up, say a one page letter, there was a preview button, I believe, it would open a separate window and it would show you the entire page like it would look when printed. You could check to see if the printed document appeared the way you intend for it to look.

    Now all you get before printing is that tiny thing on the print setup, where you set how many copies, two sided print, etc.  That thing is so small it is worthless!

    In Excel, there was the print preview button and the same thing, it took you to a window showing what the print area was going to look like.  Also, you had the capabilities to add the headers and footers, then see if that is how you wanted the page to look like.  Nearly full screen.  Now it is that tiny POS, that as an elder person, I cannot read or see if is how I want my document to appear.

    Today working in Excel I tried to add headers and footers, it tried to do it on the actual worksheet and wanted to add it in the middle of the spreadsheet! I mean ready...

    Why does MS trash something that was working well and take a step backwards.  Plus MS doesn't want to listen or correct or give the paying customer what they've ask for.

    Had I known how MS Office 365 for Mac performs now, I would NOT have upgraded!  The only reason I did was because Outlook was screwing up and had to re-id itself everyday!  I could have started using my Apple mail and kept the other working apps.  But then, MS was stopping giving any further updates and support.  Quite frankly the support since "upgrading" has not been good.

    I thank you for trying to make it look like someone cares about my frustrations, but I fear it is all for naught.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-10T03:53:06+00:00

    Hi Daw50,

    To clarify the print issue more clearly, would you please tell which application you can’t get a full screen preview? it would be appreciated if you can tell us more detailed information about it.

    Regards,

    Coldwell

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-01-10T17:45:42+00:00

    Hi Jim,

    Thanks for your input on the community. We appreciate it greatly and will continue to improve our process.

    Regards,

    Tina

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  4. Jim G 134K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-01-10T16:33:36+00:00

    Hi

    I turned your new question about full page print preview into a new question. - Moderator

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