Microsoft Office Add-ins Blocked

 

Grammarly for Microsoft Word stopped working. I got this message:

Add-in Information: Microsoft 365 has been configured to prevent individual acquisition and execution of Office Store Add-ins.

Trying to re-add it gave me this message:

Office Store not available: Unfortunately, your organization has disabled access to the Office Store. Please contact your administrator to request access.

1. My university said that they knew nothing about blocking add-ins and sent me from team to team, and we got nowhere.

2. Grammarly was working on one of my other computers but not on my main MacBook Pro or on other staff MBPs.

3. I completely uninstalled Office (including deleting container files in ~Library) and reinstalled. This did not work.

4. I went to Word/Sign Out and signed out; the Grammarly add-in could be installed.

a. Signing back in to Microsoft 365 blocked Grammarly.

b. Signing out again restored its use.

Since Word seems to work perfectly fine when I am signed out, I will leave it that way. If I need to sign in for some reason, I now know that signing out restores Grammarly's functioning.

This took me hours to figure out, so I hope that posting it here might save others some time.

Take Still Frame from Quicktime Window

1. Pause on the frame you want
2. Press Command + Shift + 4, then spacebar.
3. Cursor will change to a camera. Click on Quicktime window.
4. File will be saved to desktop.

Ripping Blu-Ray to Audio-Only Files

1. Open Makemkv. Convert Blu-Ray to MKV.
2. Open Handbrake.

a.     Set type to MKV

b.     Set audio to FLAC

c.     Rip each chapter separately (will require a new filename per track

3.     Open Audacity

a.     Export audio for each file

Save a Text List of File Names from Finde

• Open the folder you want to get a content listing of and hit Command+A (Select All) followed by Command+C (Copy)
• Now launch TextEdit and pull down the “Edit” menu and select “Paste and Match Style”, or hit Command+Option+Shift+V

Recovering Files After Microsoft Word 2016 for Mac Autosave Failure

I have Microsoft Word 2016 for Mac's autosave feature set to 1 minute. Word saves autorecovery files in an impossibly obscure location, so I in preferences I set the AutoRecovery files location to a sensible location.

Still, I had a crash and there were no Autorecovery files saved. Yet, I was able to eventually recover most of the work. I found these instructions after a lot of Google searching:

Mac OS creates temporary files located in your computer’s Temporary or TMP folder. The lost file may be located in this folder. To find this folder;

1. Launch Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal)
2. Paste this command and press enter: open $TMPDIR
3. This will open tmp folder.
4. Open the folder named: “Temporaryitems”. Look for the Word folder and look for files with the approximate time of an Autosave prior to the crash.

Remove SXUPTP.kext from Mac

This file is not compatible with modern MacOS but it is hard to find it to remove. Here is the location

/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Extensions/SXUPTP.kext

Remove Font Caches in One Terminal Command

sudo atsutil databases -remove

See http://osxdaily.com/2015/01/08/clear-font-caches-databases-mac-os-x/