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Why is Word document created from template saved locally, instead of to the document library?
I have created a custom content type at the root of my Site Collection and set this content type to use a Word document template, which resides in a different document library on the root site. (The ...
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When deploying a site from custom site template, one lookup column in doclib has empty values for Office 2010 (docx, xlsx, pptx) files
I'm deploying sites using a custom site template (WSP) that is:
Saved as WSP from customized Team Site
Deployed as Farm Solution
Has lists, libraries with content customized in Visual Studio ...
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Why doesn't clicking New Document save back to the document library?
I'm watching a course on SharePoint Foundation 2010 Fundamentals.
In it a document library is created a couple of columns are added, then when New Document is selected from the ribbon, Office opens ...
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SSL+IRM is it supported for SharePoint 2010+Windows 7
The problem we have faced is the following
Server side
SharePont 2010 Server
SSL enabled and certificate request required
IRM for the document library is enabled
Custom content type inhereted from ...
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Covert a Word 2003 Document to Word 2007 without losing history?
How can I covert a Word 2003 Document to Word 2007 without losing history?
The convert button is disabled when an item is checked out in SharePoint, and if I save and then re-upload it becomes a ...
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SharePoint alert Office 2010 email cuts off table
I have an alert set up for a discussion board. We have been using Office 03 just fine, email comes in, the body is shown fully, everything is great. However, when we transferred to Office 2010, not ...
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Eliminating the “Some files can harm your computer” warning prompt
Has anyone had any success getting rid of this prompt? We're running MOSS 2007 SP2, and virtually all clients are IE8, and this dialog pops up when downloading any non-Office format document from a ...
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Embedding Office files into SharePoint pages
Is it possible to embed Office documents into SharePoint publishing pages? This way the user doesn't have to open the file; its contents display inline on the page or in an iframe. The files will be ...
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Cannot check out documents anymore
Our WSS3 document libraries no longer prompt to check out. I've confirmed check out is required for editing, and I've tried a new library. We're getting the same results. I also check the ...
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Making office documents from SharePoint work with non-Internet-Explorer browsers
This one bugs me since years, and I'm guessing it may not be solvable:
When clicking the link to a document (let's say a DOC file) inside Internet Explorer on a SharePoint 2010 website, Internet ...
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Centrally manage “Sharepoint Sites” in Office 2010
It is possibile by group policy or other means, to customize the list of "Sharepoint Sites" that the user view on the Office 2010 Open menù ? I don't think my users are able to do this on their own...
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Force the document information panel to show with code or featuredefinition
In the UI I can drill down into a ContentType settings -> Document Information Panel settings -> and set 'Show Always' to true (marking the check box).
How do i set this option through code? (or in ...
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Opening a document from a link on a web page: how do I allow open for editing?
Most of my users are on Office 2007, my SharePoint installation is 2010, and we all use IE8. I currently have "Require Check Out" on my document libraries set to "No". I have a page in one of my ...
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Finding Office documents with hyperlinks to pages
A Thursday challenge - does anyone have any good ideas for this scenario in the intranet migration (CMS2002 - SP2007) project I'm working on:
I need to identify documents on the intranet which have ...
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Force Sharepoint to create new document using office web apps
Is there a way to force Sharepoint 2010 to use office web apps when creating a new word document?
From what I've seen it works like this:
- office web apps will be used if the client computer don't ...
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Cannot use PowerPoint 2010 with Slide Library
I am trying to use PowerPoint 2010 with a slide library. When I click Upload > Publish Slides within the slide library, I get the error "This feature requires Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Either ...
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Managed metadata language in the Document Information Panel
If a document uses a Managed Metadata field, is there a way to make the term set browser in Word 2010's Document Information Panel display the term sets in a language other than the default language ...
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Why is this workflow to create a document from a custom content type just creating a blank document?
I have a document library with a custom (document) content type set as default (the only content type), and I've edited the template to use columns to populate the document.
When I create a new ...
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What is slowing the opening of Office documents?
When opening an Office document the splashscreen gets stuck for about 30 seconds with the message "Contacting the server for information". How can I get more information about which information it is ...
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Open txt file in Notepad from SharePoint
We are using WSS 3.0. We have a webpart that shows a list of documents in a document library.
If we click on a MS Word file with a doc extension, it opens in MS Word.
However, if we click on a text ...
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SharePoint list.asmx web service
I want to build a office outlook application.
I want to display all documents with their folder and documents. I want to get all subfolder and their document file.
In Sort get all document library ...
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Submitting an older version of a file to Word Automation Services
I'm able to obtain the URL to a specific version of a file. I would like to submit that URL to WAS to convert. However, WAS throws an exception:
List does not exist.
The page you selected contains ...
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Why aren't network places visible with SharePoint 2001 and Office 2003?
Seems to be an age-old problem with SharePoint 2001 that you can't view the network places in Explorer if you have Office 2007 installed.
As there seems to be no fix for this, Office 2007 was ...
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Setting location of document templates in SharePoint document library in Office 2010 applications
One of the functionalities advertised for Office 2010 was that "People can access document templates stored in SharePoint 2010 via the New Document Wizard in Microsoft Office applications" (see page ...
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sync office 365 Outlook Calendar with office 365 SharePoint Calendar
I want to synchronize office 365 outlook calendar with office 365 SharePoint calendar. How to do this ? Is it Possible ?
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Hosting Office Templates in a Document Library (Office & Sharepoint 2010)
I know, Sharepoint added this wonderful feature with those document templates, where i can stick a document directly onto a library, and integrate it into Sharepoint with some simple clicks (and an ...
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Why Wouldn't Office 2010 Be Compatible with Sharepoint 2010?
When I open a Microsoft Office Database that is on my Sharepoint 2010 portal, it does indeed, open Microsoft Access 2010, but it says, "Read Only This database was connected to a Microsoft Access ...
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Incorrect authentication method when using Outlook integration
We have a SharePoint web application with both ADFS 2.0 and NTLM authentication methods enabled. Users have connected SharePoint calendars to Outlook and the integration almost works perfectly. They ...
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SharePoint 2010 Export to Excel Fails Claims Based Authentication
We have a 2010 SharePoint implementation and the clients are using Office 2007 SP2 and IE 8. Security is handled using claims-based authentication over http. In Office 2010 we are able to go to a ...
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Importing an Excel file to a list - how to control the column types
I am attempting to import an Excel file into SharePoint using Create List > Import Spreadsheet.
Several columns are just short text fields < 100 chars and with no formatting/line breaks etc.
Some ...
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Office 365 and Office 2013
I can't open Word, Excel file from SharePoint in client application Word and Excel (Office 2013). When I click to the file, SharePoint inform me that I don't have any client application. From Word or ...
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How can I auto-populate list columns based on the selected values of another column?
I have the following 2 lists:
SCG and RPM
SCG has 2 columns:
SOR Number(Single line of text)
PS Number(Single line of text)
When I create a new item I create entries like this:
SOR | PS
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Customise SharePoint access through Windows Explorer
We are developing a document management solution, the taxonomy is quite complex and needs to be able to scale above 200gb. We have developed a proof-of-concept where the corporate taxonomy is ...
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Retrive list item meta data into access table?
I'm creating a report in Access based on a SharePoint list, but I'd like to make use of the fields Last Modified and Modified By. I imported the table into Access as a linked table, but I don't see ...
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window authentication in Office 365 from client context
I want to access office 365 list from window application. Is it possible to access using window authentication ? i don't want to pass user id and password
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How to prevent Office from looking in sharepoint when saving
When one of the users try tries to save a file in Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ...) a message appears:
Contacting \servername\DavWWWRoot for information. Press ESC to cancel.
A window then ...
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Printing lists in SharePoint 2010
Is there a way to easily export SharePoint 2010 lists with rich HTML columns to Word 2010 for printing? Here's what we need:
A "Print List" or similar functionality in SharePoint (IE browser), where ...
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Report generation tool for WSS/foundation
Rather then building our own tool from the ground up I am looking for a report generation tool for SharePoint, preferably WSS/Foundation.
I would like some kind of tool that will generate a Word ...
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CSOM without being an app for O365
I have an integration dashboard I've written that currently works with On-Prem SharePoint.
Basically, you give it the address of a SharePoint server, and it passes in your NTLM credentials obtained ...
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Opening a document in SharePoint 2013 requires logging in
We have implemented a new install of SharePoint 2013 at my company. I've set up a web application, a site collection and a site so far. I'm setting up sites and testing them to see how SharePoint 2013 ...
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Can clients on Office 2010 Pro use SP2013 to edit in browser?
Has anyone successfully used an Office 2010 Pro Plus / Volume License (and possibly Standard) client to edit their Office 2010 docs within the browser on an on-premise SP2013 site (Foundation but ...
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Accessing Sharepoint from 3rd party programs
We've just implemented sharepoint and are switching to it from a more traditional network drive based setup.
One of the biggest hurdles to this switch is getting it to integrate with 3rd party ...
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Can Custom Workflows be created without Designer?
I have have to create a custom workflow for SharePoint 2010, however we are blocked from using Designer, and have MS Office 2007 not 2010. Is there a way to create a custom workflow any other way? Can ...
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publish to office clients using Powershell
Is there a way to define the links to publish to office clients using Powershell?
To do this action through the UI you would go through:
Central Admin --> Manage Service Applications --> User ...
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Cannot open document for editing in Sharepoint (MOSS 2007)
I am experiencing a frustrating issue when I try to check out a document for editing in one of our Sharepoint sites (running MOSS 2007, Office 2010, IE9, Win 7 32 bit SP1), when I try to open the ...
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Excel new document template opens in Notepad
I have a document library with a custom document template. The template is an .XLTX file that I created using Excel 2010. It is associated to the library via a custom content type.
The template ...
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System crashes while accessing SharePoint 2007 Links
User is running on XP, IE6.0 with Office 2003.
Whenever tries to access any of the SharePoint 2007 Links, Either system goes down or application closes automatically.
Have you ever come across such ...
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Cannot open Office file types directly from server
I have a big problem, in my Sharepoint site when I am trying to open Excel files in document library, it shows " access the web server by default disabled. It uses basic authentication but it does not ...
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SharePoint 2010 bug with .docx, .xlsx documents while uploading/opening
By now there are many bugs out there in sp2010 integration with office documents. But, in this case if you create an empty .docx with the following word metadata SP2010 crashes while uploading these ...
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Win7 Office2010 SharePoint2007 Error Editing/Viewing Documents
SITUATION: We are having an issue with users editing files in MOSS 2007 using IE8. This is not impacting users that still use Windows XP and Office 2007 (IE7), but rolling back is not an option. The ...
