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Microsoft SharePoint is produced to integrate with Microsoft Office, such as reading and editing office documents within a supported web browser.

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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 ...
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Opening a Microsoft Office File in Sharepoint is taking too much time

We are accessing SharePoint 2016 sites through VDI(External Virtual Client Machines) which has Microsoft office 2010 installed . When any user uploads an office file(Excel , Word , PPT) on SharePoint ...
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Export Event with Attachment to outlook

I am exporting SharePoint 2013 Calendar event from custom command > Export event to Outlook. But the problem is that I want to export attachment along with event: By default it's exporting only ...
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SharePoint 2013 - Disable Client Integration issue

We have a zone where we would like to disable Client Integration for preventing Sharepoint to open the documents in Office. Instead we would like to have a download promt for the user when clicking on ...
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Unable to Open previous versions of Documents in SharePoint 2013

This issue started happening yesterday. Users are reporting that if they try to open an Office document this works fine. However, if they try to open a previous version they get either a blank ...
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'Open In Excel' option is grayed out for .xlsm files in Sharepoint 2013

We know that excel files with macros and password protections are not supported to view in Browser using Office Web App / Excel Web App. In this SharePoint shows small dialogue where it has 'Open In ...
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Are "Apps for Office" being deprecated as an approach now by Microsoft?

Are "Apps for Office" (Office Add-in) being deprecated as an approach now by Microsoft? I know SharePoint apps have changed quite a bit to a REST Javascript Library in SEWP model now. What is the ...
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How to make an AAM of Intranet zone of web app use the external url of Office Web Apps

The office web app farm is configured with internal url and external url, the sharepoint farm is configured with external-https WOPIZone . The web application has a default zone and an AAM of ...
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Document on SharePoint opens in "edit" mode only once

Problem Any document (docx) I open or create I am able to to edit it only once. The following attempts open the document in "Read-Only" mode. I am able to overwrite the document. I've tried ...
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SharePoint 2013 and integration with Office 2013

I have a fresh install of SharePoint Foundation 2013. I'm about 99% finished configuring it, but I'm having problems with Office Integration. My document library requires checkouts before editing. ...
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Creating a new document on SharePoint 2013 with Office 2016 installed opens Office web app first

I'm testing my organisations new Windows 10 PC build with Office 2016 installed (we currently use W7 with O2010). When a new document is created in our on premise SharePoint 2013, I'm first prompted ...
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Can we hide the yellow button bar for readonly user when he opened an Excel?

We are using SP2013 on-premise standard edition. When user with readonly permission opened a workbook link (e.g. http://sharepoint.com/sites/abc/shared document/abc.xlsx) he will see the yellow bar ...
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Could not find site url while saving document to SharePoint on the fly

I have a SharePoint 2013 farm on which there is a team site. We have few document libraries in which we are trying to save our document/excel or any other office file directly. My client machine is ...
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office 365 visio web access hyperlinks not working

I have a office 365 account. When I open the visio.vsdx file using the Visio web Access web part. The hyperlinks do not work. The hyperlink links to another page in the same visio file. I have not ...
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Office Web Apps 2013 using without SharePoint

Office Web Apps 2013 is now standalone service product. SharePoint used it from iframe like this https://officewebapps.contoso.com/wv/wordviewerframe.aspx? sharepoint_doc_handler_url + accesstoken ...
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IE10 unable to open Sharepoint document

I have Win8, IE 10, Office 2010, trying to open/edit document from Sharepoint 2007, and I received: "The document could not be opened for editing. A Windows Sharepoint services compatible application ...
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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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How can I format a column using JSON to prepend the office URI scheme to the document link?

I have a custom column formatted with JSON for SharePoint. I need all of my customization to stay, however, I do need to add the following formatting to the column: Using boolean logic, format the ...
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How we can monitor users activity on SharePoint online without external analytics?

How can we monitor users activity on SharePoint online pages, such as watching a video or viewing PowerPoint or pdf or reading content on pages and also times that users stay in specific page? I want ...
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Edit files in client app using document id links

I activated the document id feature for my site collections. Now I can get two types of links for office documents: Durable links like https://{tenant}.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/{Identifier}?e=33sUal and ...
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Sharepoint online site : Unable to open PPT files in mobile

We are trying to open PPT files from sharepoint online (mobile enabled) site in mobile getting an error "This item might not exist or is no longer available"(but actually it exist in desktop view).
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New Office Formats (*.xlsx, *.docx etc.) and SharePoint Metadata Promotion

we are seeing the following behavior in our SharePoint 2013 on-premise. Repro steps below: 1) Create a document library with versioning (major and minor versions turned on, require checkout) 2) ...
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Prevent opening office files in client

I followed instructions how to disable users of using offline client to view/edit documents. So they have to use web app mode. I created dummy group of two users whom I gave contribute permissions. ...
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Is there a way to link project task to document submission and approval

We have few content writer that are paid by the hour. And they submit their documents on sharepoint. They usually bill 10X more than their actual time(We were even billed 30 hrs for a document copied ...
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Is there a way to track document editing time in Sharepoint?

We have few content writer that are paid by the hour. And they submit their documents on sharepoint. They usually bill 10X more than their actual time(We were even billed 30 hrs for a document copied ...
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Problem in working with a Master Project Plan and sub projects when they exists inside multiple documents libraries

I am working on a SharePoint on-premises 2013 farm. and i have a team site, with around 50 sub-sites. now under each sub-site there is a document library. and for all documents libraries they share ...
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Login Prompt while opening Office document in SharePoint2013 Extranet with Forms authentication

We have setup the SharePoint 2013 extranet site with FBA authentication of Extradium tool. We have 1 WFE,1 APP & 1 DB server in our farm.We are currently facing issue while opening office document....
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External Content Types WCF Service SharePoint Designer connection error

I am doing integration.And the product web service available online.I trying to to use service but it is showing an error. follow these steps by selecting Add connection = wcf ][3]
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Upload Failed in Office Client after adding ADFS

We are attempting to add ADFS authentication to SharePoint in a combined Kerberos/ADFS setup. Clients connected to the internal network use Windows Authentication, and remote clients use ADFS for ...
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Unable to open Office files from a SharePoint 2013 on an iPad

Unable to open Office files from a SharePoint 2010 on an iPad As SharePoint uses ActiveX even in 2013, this problem still happens, doesn't it? OR is there any way to fix this? Regards,
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Can't open IRM protected document in office applications and office web apps

I'm using SharePoint 2013 Enterprise with Office Web Apps 2013 and Information Rights Management Configured. (All of our servers are on-prem including the ADRMS) I have two universal distribution ...
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OfficeWebApps Server Watch Dog Error

When I link SharePoint 2013 to my WAC Server 2013 and try to preview a Word doc I get Sorry, this document cannot be previewed. I have the zone to external https, Exchange and lLnc work with the ...
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Connect to Office not working Sharepoint 2013 and Windows 7

I cannot for the life of me get the Connect to Office to create any sites within my Sharepoint sites directory on my local computer. It does create the link in the "My Sites" Quick Links, but i don't ...
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How can you access via a shortcut the view of a SharePoint site seen when saving a file opened from the site?

When saving a document downloaded from a SharePoint site, or opening sometimes a recent file from that location, I get a very nice Open/Save dialogue: But I cannot make this view a Favorite, and when ...
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When opening documents from SP2013 in MS Office (via VPN), document not connected to server any more

I try to open a word/excel/office document from a SharePoint 2013 server. Until last week that worked fine, when opening a pptx file in Office Web Applications and then clicked on "Open in PowerPoint"...
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remove column from showing up in document properties

Which property in the object model do I use to tell an SPField not to show up in the document properties in Office integration? I tried ShowInEditForm but that didn't work. i want my Status column to ...
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Since last patch, unable to open excel documents and word documents can only be opened by dropdown

We performed updates to the SharePoint Portal, SharePoint Foundation, Office Sharepoint Server, Excel Services Component, and Word Server on 03/16/2014. Since then, we are unable to open Excel ...
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Picture manager not opening up after authentication during multi upload in images library

While trying to upload multiple images in a picture/image library, i am getting authentication popup, after which the picture manager doesn't open up. This is happening to many users. What could be ...
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Column Default Values on new document

I have a folder in a SharePoint document library that has several column default values set. When I upload a file to this folder, the columns get their default value as expected. However, when I ...
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SharePoint 2010 and Word 2010 Multilanguage Managed Metadata issue

We have some issues related to a SharePoint 2010 solution. It’s an Intranet site Collection with multi language support on UI, Managed Metadata and document content. The PC’s are set up with Windows 7,...
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SharePoint 2010 & opening .mht files & 'x-usc'

Whenever I open a .mht file from SharePoint(2010) I get the following security warning: I notice that the .mht file that multiple images and as a result multiple security warning messages appear for ...
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Can't update document properties through any API - only through check out and check in

I have a few documents in a library that I can't seem to update the properties for through the Web UI, the ListData.svc (JSON/JS), the object model or PowerShell. We have a property called Data Rights ...
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Force checkout not working with Edit (link to edit item) column in SP2010

Could someone be so kind as to check the following in their 2010 environments. Create a doc library Turn on force check-out Turn on versioning. Add the "Edit (link to edit item)" column to the ...
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How do I prevent Office applications to update one of my SPListItem properties?

I have a document library in SharePoint whith a custom content type. There is one custom field that is set by an item added event receiver each time a new document is uploaded. My problem occurs when ...
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Having trouble updating some of the document list's properties in SharePoint 2010

I have this very very weird thing happen in the SharePoint site. Okay this is my situation: I have this problem in one of the newly migrated site in the company. One of the user tries to "edit the ...
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PowerPoint does not detect changes in Slide Library

I have a problem with my Slide Library on Sharepoint 2010, whenever I use some slides from the "Slide Library" and save locally, when PowerPoint won't check for Updates. It all worked fine in the ...
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Approaches we can follow to allow our customers to interact with our own APIs using Power Apps

I have more than 6 years of experience in Power Apps & SharePoint. but i am working on a new project which created a challenge for me, to understand from where i should start and which approach to ...
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Click on *.url File Type offers Download for Original Content Instead of Opening OC in the Browser's Web View

We are using a SharePoint Online library that includes shortcuts (*.url) to original files (pdf; docx; pptx; xlsx; etc.) within the same library based on *.url file extensions. Since recently, when we ...
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Can only open documents once from Sharepoint

I hope someone can help. I have a client using SharePoint 2010 On-Prem with Office 2016. They are due to upgrade SharePoint next year (to Online I think). They are using Internet Explorer Version is ...
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SharePoint 2010: Solution for MS Office protocol URL scheme?

I have a client still running a SharePoint Server 2010 on-prem, so opening documents from a library in MS Office applications only works with IE and the ActiveX controls which SP2010 incorporates. ...
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