Open applications from office suite etc

I would just like to say that I'm very unhappy with my purchase of this iPad Air as every time it need to do something I need to google it. Just recently sent a PDF doc from work PC to ipad and I couldn't even open it. After time wasting browsing this forums and eventually calling the help desk I was informed that ipad doesn't support that file ext.......really now!!!!!!
Will defiantly be switching over once this contract is up :(

In fact, iOS 7 can quickview any of the following file types as a mail attachment:
.jpg, .tiff, .gif (images); .doc and .docx (Microsoft Word); .htm and .html (web pages); .key (Keynote); .numbers (Numbers); .pages (Pages); .pdf (Preview and Adobe Acrobat); .ppt and .pptx (Microsoft PowerPoint); .txt (text); .rtf (rich text format); .vcf (contact information); .xls and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel); .zip; .ics
and there are a plethora of apps that can open other file types, as well as create or edit them, so as Rob said, you have been misinformed.
Regards.

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I have a couple of backup drives attached to my computer. I use one for Time Machine backups and the other for scheduled Carbon Copy Cloner backups--the old belt and braces approach. Unfortunately, whenever I right click on a file in the Finder and select an application from the "Open With >" submenu, the file always opens in the copy of the application that's on the CCC backup volume--even if the application is already running from the boot volume!
I can understand why it might be desirable to search for applications on attached volumes--some people might not have enough room for all their apps on the boot volume--but I can't fathom why the Finder would look there first! The sensible thing would be to first check and see if the application is already running, and if it's not, look for it on the boot volume, then any attached volumes, then maybe a shared network drive. It just doesn't make any sense to launch another instance of a process that is already running!
Apart from disconnecting my backup drive--which kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a scheduled backup task--is there any way to prevent this? I'd prefer to just not ever open applications from attached volumes. Failing that, I'd just like it to make more reasonable decisions, but I haven't found the "don't be stupid" Finder preference yet. Has anybody else run into this and found a fix or workaround?
Message was edited by: David Livesay

Thank you! I never would have suspected that Spotlight had anything to do with this.
If anyone else runs into this, there is one additional thing you might need to do.
Excluding the other volumes from Spotlight will prevent them from being added to the list of possible apps to open, but once they have been used they are also bookmarked in the "Recent Items" preferences. The easiest way to delete them from there is to open System Preferences > Appearance and set Number of recent items > Applications to None. Once you close the pref pane they will be deleted, then you can set it back to whatever it was and it will get repopulated over time.

"An Unexpected Error occured" While opening links from office 2010 Word document on windows 8.1

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We are on windows environment as below -
Server -
- Win2k8 Std R2,
- SQL 2008,
- SP 2010 Foundation SP2
Client -
- Win 8.1 64 Bit OS,
- Browser - IE 11
- MS Office - 2010 - 14.0.4763.1000
Problem -
While Opening links from word document(Ctrl+Click) , get error message "An Unexpected
Error had occured". And link is not opened.
We are using this client using remote desktop.
Any ideas on this?
Does Microsoft provided any fixes for this?
shwetank

Hi,
Have you tried the hyperlinks in other Office programs like Outlook and PowerPoint? Do they work well?
You may need to run the Fix it in this kb below:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310049/en-us
You can also try the steps in the section "Let me fix it myself". Although this kb is written for Outlook, it may help in your scenario as well.
I hope this is useful.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

Oracle Planning gives error when trying to open application from Workspace.

Hello,
We have version 11.2.2.0.0 of Planning installed. After the install of Essbase Studio Server we have hit some issues where Planning does not seem to be available. Despite re-deploying several times and other things, we cannot connect to the Planning server.
Planning does seem to be listening
c:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\domains\EPMSystem\bin>netstat -na | findstr 8300
TCP    127.0.0.1:8300         0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    155.209.11.122:8300    0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING
TCP    [::1]:8300             [::]:0                 LISTENING
but the test URL will not resolve
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URI: http://localhost:19000/HyperionPlanning/conf/HspJSConfig.xml
Status: 404 - Not Found
Content: text/html; charset=UTF-8
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Draft//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Error 404--Not Found</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="white">
<FONT FACE=Helvetica><BR CLEAR=all>
<TABLE border=0 cellspacing=5><TR><TD><BR CLEAR=all>
<FONT FACE="Helvetica" COLOR="black" SIZE="3"><H2>Error 404--Not Found</H2>
</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE>
<TABLE border=0 width=100% cellpadding=10><TR><TD VALIGN=top WIDTH=100% BGCOLOR=white><FONT FACE="Courier New"><FONT FACE="Helvetica" SIZE="3"><H3>From RFC 2068 <i>Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1</i>:</H3>
</FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica" SIZE="3"><H4>10.4.5 404 Not Found</H4>
</FONT><P><FONT FACE="Courier New">The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.</p><p>If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.</FONT></P>
</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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Thanks,
Philip.

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How to remove the open applications from right side of the dock?

How do I remove the open apps from the right of the line on the dock? They are by the Trash. I will attach an image. I don't want them to show up over there when I have an app open.

In previous versions of Mac OS X, any window containing an open application that was reduced in size was put in the Dock and looked like those in the image. So if you reduced any open page while in an application, that would be as you see, there. Or if you chose to 'hide' an open application it'd go there.
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Hi All,
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On task tab , links of "Task" tab work collectly , display the WDA application and passed workitem ID .
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1. I added the entry at SWFVISU to output the WDA application from "Task" tab .
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after : defaultView="WorkItemRequestsView"
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Does it matter ?
Help me .
I saw the below documents , but I do not resolve the problem .
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http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/WDABAP/IntegratingWebDynproABAPapplicationswithUWLforworkflowin+Portal
- Workitems, Universal Worklist and Web Dynpro for ABAP
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- Object Visualization in UWL using WD4A
http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/sap-wug/2007-December/027431.html
Regards ,
Masao

I added below sources .
>    <ItemType name="uwl.request.webflow.WS91000001" connector="WebFlowConnector" defaultView="WorkItemRequestsView" defaultAction="launchWebDynPro" executionMode="default">
>      <ItemTypeCriteria systemId="UWLSETXXX" externalType="WS91000001" connector="WebFlowConnector" />
>      <Actions>
>        <Action name="launchWebDynPro" groupAction="" handler="SAPWebDynproABAPLauncher" returnToDetailViewAllowed="yes" launchInNewWindow="yes" launchNewWindowFeatures="resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,directories=no">
>          <Properties>
>            <Property name="WebDynproApplication" value="ZWD_WF_002" />
>            <Property name="newWindowFeatures" value="resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,directories=no" />
>            <Property name="DynamicParameter" value="wi_id=${item.externalId}" />
>            <Property name="openInNewWindow" value="yes" />
>            <Property name="System" value="WDSETXXX" />
>            <Property name="WebDynproNamespace" value="sap" />
>            <Property name="display_order_priority" value="5" />
>          </Properties>
>          <Descriptions default="" />
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>      </Actions>
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>      <ItemTypeCriteria systemId="UWLSETXXX" externalType="WS91000001" connector="WebFlowConnector" />
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How to call an applescript application from Office 2011 Excel VBA

All:
I have been pounding my head how to implement a working VBA application into the Mac environment. I have tried a number of approaches calling applescript from VBA. I would like to call my applescript application and pass one argument. My applescript application is as follows:
<code>
on run argv
set theURL to (item 1 of argv)
set p_path to do shell script "echo ~"
set m_path to POSIX file p_path
set theName to text -((offset of "/" in (reverse of characters of theURL) as text) - 1) thru -1 of theURL
set theFile to (p_path & "/Downloads/" & theName)
set macPath to (POSIX file theFile)
do shell script "/usr/bin/curl " & theURL & " -o " & quoted form of POSIX path of macPath
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My last attempt within VBA is:
<code>
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I first tried to call the script directly without the "tell application" and I still obtain an error. I also tried the following in VBA and I get the same error with the last lane of code:
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The above code is from the applescript application. The applescript application works well using the terminal via osascript. For example:
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xenas-imac:Census Work Xena$
The whole goal is to download a file into the Download directory from Excel to allow the next step to import the file into Excel for the user. Any help here would be great!
Thank you;
Lori

Update:
Ok have the module almost working and matches the syntax within the test applescript I had created, but the VBA code via the MacScript() call is generating an invalid procedure or argument call. The following is the test applescript to compare the created string to be passed to VBA MacScript() function:
<code>
set appPath to quoted form of POSIX path of "Macintosh HD:Users:Xena:Desktop:Census Work:"
do shell script "/usr/bin/osascript " & appPath & "MetaDataFileDownloadScript.app " & "http://www2.census.gove/acs20095yr/summaryfile/Sequence_Number_and_Table_numberLookup.xls"
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The following is the VBA module that generates the above word for word as far as I can tell:
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Dim scriptToRun As String
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posixcmd = ThisWorkbook.Path
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Looking at Microsoft's definition it takes a string argument and I have made sure that scriptToRun is a string type, so at this point I suspect there is something wrong with the MacScript() funciton, or I am missing something above. Is there another way to call an applescript application from VBA outside the MacScript() function? Or is there something I am missing? Any help or suggestions is needed.
Thank you;
Lori (CodeXena)

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Hello!
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I've got Office 365 subscription (E3) with Office.
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The similar problem exists for OneDrive for Business - some libraries are syncing, some cannot - asking for Enter credentials, but when I click - nothing happens.
There were two accounts bound to Office 2013 - personal Microsoft ID as primary account and corporate Office 365 linked to it.
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I deleted all Office15 entries from Credentials Manager - Office asked me about Office 365 login/password - I entered them, it is syncing, Haliluja, but, when Microsoft ID account was linked to Office 365 account in Office - problem appears again.
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Update: It seems I localized the problem, but still don't know the solution.
Scenario to reproduce error for me:
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Update 2:
I installed PowerShell for SharePoint online cmdlets and found this user using get-SPOUser.
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I know that I can remove Sharing with external users from Site Collection and information about these users will be permanently deleted - but I don't want to do this, there are several customers who work with our documents.

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Technically, another forum :) Go to Control Panel -> Default Programs -> Set your Default Programs. Find Word 2013 in the list, and then select it as default.
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Did you try to open teh fle by double-clicking its icon? If the file was made with an older version of Office, you may get that message. Try opeing PP and, from its "File" menu, see if you can open the ppt. I've foundthat often gets around that message and then yo ucan save the file from the newer version.
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