Questions tagged [office-integration]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Centrally manage "Sharepoint Sites" in Office 2010
Is it possible by group policy or other means, to customize the list of "Sharepoint Sites" that the user view on the Office 2010 Open menu? I don't think my users are able to do this on their own...
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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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Open in explorer in other browsers?
We are using SP 2016 on-prem, and have an asset library with tons of pictures which users use by opening the asset library in "Explorer View". The problem is that it only works with IE and no other ...
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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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Is there a way to paste pictures inside the rich text editor, for my enterprise wiki site?
I have a publishing site collection using the enterprise wiki template. Currently if I have a word document which contain text & images , and I copy all the word document content, after that I ...
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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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taxonomy field error Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
I am using an Office 365 custom solution
I have a custom list with a couple of taxonomy fields. I have added some JavaScript to customize the fields i.e.hide and show the fields depending on some ...
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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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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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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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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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Using firefox to edit office documents inside my document library
I have a problem in understanding what is the standard approach to follow for editing office documents inside my document library. As it seems each browser will have different behavior when it comes ...
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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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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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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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"Open in Visio " & "Open in Excel" is not working, and I will get an error message
I have the following inside my SharePoint server 2013 :-
EnterPrise Wiki site collection.
i have both "Excel services Application "& "Visio Graphics Service" running correctly.
The problem i am ...
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What is "Microsoft Office (2 files) - Version: 15.0.4420.1017" plugin?
Does anyone know what exactly the "Microsoft Office (2 files) - Version: 15.0.4420.1017" plugin does in Chrome? I can't find any documentation on this.
I see this on Windows machines when I use ...
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Sharepoint 2013-stored/created Office documents not opening in 2010 client
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Created new Word and Excel docs in a SharePoint 2013 Online library. When I attempt to "Edit in Excel" from IE9 to open the file in my Excel 2010 desktop client, I only get a "The webpage ...
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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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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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Enable "Connect to office" in Sharepoint 2010?
I need to enable "Connect to Office" in our SharePoint 2010 standard and can't find where to do this, can someone help?
Thanks.
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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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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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Auto upload documents to sharepoint from outlook attachments
I'm looking for an out of the box solution to auto upload outlook email attachments to SharePoint and sending them as links instead of actually attaching them as files to emails.
I heard about 3rd ...
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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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Managing Microsoft documents inside SharePoint document library will behave differently according to the browser vender
I have a Document library inside my publishing site collection. now when the users clicks on any MS office documents inside the document library they will get different behaviors based on the browser ...
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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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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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Sharepoint 2010 Integration with Exchange/Outlook
I have a shared calendar in sharepoint 2010 site which also manages users' schedules.
I want to display the schedule of all users in one sharepoint shared calendar in such a way that the users' ...
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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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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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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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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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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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OPTIONS on claims-based 2013 site throws Error.aspx when not authenticated
I have a claims-based SharePoint 2013 site that is using a custom logon page and supports multiple authentication methods. In general, things are working as expected. Users can sign-in, access ...
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Forcing SharePoint to open the document library office documents, using the client office applications
I have done the following settings:
I set the "Browser File Handling" for the web application to "Strict".
I set the "Opening Documents in the Browser" for the document library to "Open in the client ...
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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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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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