Well, for Office 2010, Microsoft has essentially brought that concept to uploading as well. They have created a new applet called the “Office Synchronization Center”. When you tell Word (for example) to save a file, rather than sending it directly to the SharePoint site, it hands it off to the Synchronization Center, which does the uploading, including such niceties as retrying if for some reason the upload fails the first time. It also allows you to continue working once you have started the save process – sort of like a “background save” on steroids.
Many times I find people looking in the wrong direction when trying to find a SharePoint solution to one of their business problems. In this case, the question isn’t “How can I use SharePoint to combine multiple documents into a single, master document?” The real question is “How can I combine multiple documents into a single, master document?” It has nothing to do with SharePoint… the documents just happen to reside there.
In Lee Reed’s article on displaying your latest blog posts in SharePoint, he suggested a way to create text to use as placeholder information to see what the fully configured blog interface will look like.
The Train the Trainer sessions are going well. There’s another one this Wednesday on how to train Information Workers to use Blogs and Wikis. I also had a request this morning to post the entire schedule for the Train the Trainer series so people can plan in advance and put them on their schedules.
Today’s live online session, Word and SharePoint – I didn’t know you could do that!, has concluded. This is the area to get participant feedback from the session. We covered some hidden features that might make using SharePoint a little easier for those who work a lot from within Word.
Laura Rogers and I are putting the finishing touches on tomorrow’s workshop. Here’s the short list of things we will be covering:
The online workshop, Excel and SharePoint: I didn’t know you could do that!, scheduled for March 24 is almost sold out. As of the time of this posting, there are only four tickets left.
One of the interesting features in the major MS Word Applications is the ability to define where the “Save” or “Save As…” button points upon initially saving a file. By default, it usually points to “My Documents“. If you are using SharePoint a lot, it will probably be useful to reset that default to a [...]
One of the features in SharePoint that will help with end user buy-in is the ability for them to continue to work in a familiar environment instead of forcing all work to be done within SharePoint. Along these lines, the major applications of MS Office (Word, Excel and SharePoint) have the ability to use the [...]
