Word document question
Is there any way to make the tutorial builder into word document? Also with having the show me in photoshop link work. or just without it?
With all of the html that the builder creates the word file would be tough to work with. Perhaps you can create a pdf file instead? Simply open the tutorial's html file in a web browser and print to pdf file. From there you could print it out as is or maybe edit it in Illustrator?
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External Link to Word document question
Hello, fellow RoboHelpers!
I have a quick question that I am hoping someone can answer
for me. :-)
I am using RoboHelp X5 and use Microsoft HTML Help (.CHM) as
my file output. I would like to link a Word document to one of my
topics, so when a user clicks the link, they will be prompted to
open/save the Word document.
The following are the steps I use to do this:
1) I type the text that I want the to use for the hyperlink,
highlight it, and select the Hyperlink tool (or press CTRL+K).
2) In the Hyperlink dialog box, I select "File" from the
"Link To:" section and select my Word document.
3) I select "Yes" to add the Word document to my project
folder.
4) In the Hyperlink diaglog box, I select OK, and the link
has been created.
5) I generate my Help project and test the link.
6) When I click the hyperlink, I receive a "File Download -
Security Warning" box asking me if I want to Open or Save the Word
document.
Problem #1 -- it appears that I can save the Word document by
clicking "Save" without any problems, but clicking "Open" does not
open the Word document in Microsoft Word. Why?
Problem #2 -- The warning box displays three criteria: the
file name, what type of file it is, and "From". I have issues with
the "From" line. While the .CHM file is attempting to call the Word
document from within the .CHM file, which is what I expected it to
do ... the path is, well, ugly looking :-P
mk:@MSITStore:C:\Program%20Files\RoboHelp%20Office\
RoboHTML\HTMLMicrosoftHTML\VRHelp.chm::/ICBA.doc
Is there any way that I can clean up this path? If I could at
least get rid of that mk:@MSITStore, that would be a good start.
If anyone has some suggestions, I am all for it!
Thank you very much,
--Jessicaquote:
Originally posted by:
johnmccallum
Jessica,
The "mk:@MSITStore:" is the protocol for extracting from a
.chm file, much like an "http:" precedes a web address. I'm afraid
that just is part of the path if the Word document is embedded in
the help file.
Ahh, I am sorry to hear that that is the case. Thanks for the
information!
quote:
Originally posted by:
johnmccallum
I don't know why your "Open" doesn't work. Does it open the
document within the browser window, or just not open it at all? Are
you adding the Word document as a baggage file? I don't know if
RHX5 does this automatically with your steps as I use an older
version.
John
Yes, the Word document is added as a baggage file. If I click
"Open", the Security Warning box disappears and nothing happens
(unfortunately).
In the Hyperlink properties, I realized that I had the link
opening in the "same window", so I changed it to display in a "New
Window". Now, when I generate/click the link, the Word document
tries to open in Internet Explorer (path and all). I get the same
message box as before asking me if I want to Open or Save the
document. Still, clicking "Open" will not open the Word document in
Microsoft Word. When I press Open, the box simply disappears and
the path remains in the Internet Explorer address bar. If I select
the path in the message bar and press Enter to bring up the
Open/Save prompt again, I can save the document ... but I cannot
Open it.
A thought just occurred to me while I was typing this: Would
the fact that I am using Microsoft Word 2007 have anything to do
with why the file will not open? I remember hearing that Office
2007 is not compatible with RoboHelpX5, so perhaps that is why the
document is not opening. Still, RoboHelpX5 doesn't seem to have a
problem saving the file to your harddrive regardless of the
filetype, and the Word document I am working with is a .doc file
anyway, compatible with Word 97-2003, not a .docx.
quote:
Originally posted by:
Peter Grainge
The opening of Word documents is described on my site under
Snippets.
I took a look at your site, which says:
Opening a Word document
From time to time people ask how to open a Word document from
the help.
COMPILED CHM HELP - Rick advises that you can use an HTML
Help Shortcut control to accomplish the goal.
You simply specify the file name where you would normally
specify the application.
I tried to create a HTML Help shortcut by doing the
following:
1. I click the Insert Navigation Control button, then HTML
Help Controls > Shortcut
2. In the Button options box, I enter a text description for
the button and click Next.
3. In the Shortcut Selection, the first prompt says, "Program
to run when shortcut is activated." I search for my Word document
from within my Project Folder, select it, and press Next.
4. I leave the Font options the way they are.
5. I click Finish, and the button is created.
When I generate the project and test the button, nothing
happens when I click it. If I do specify the application (ex.
WINWORD.EXE), Word
does open when I click the button. How can I get it to call
a specific Word document?
Thanks for your time, guys!
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Microsoft word documents question
I have a mac mini and have installed Microsoft Office onto it.
My question is this: Is there a way for me to protect my word documents by password protecting them? In other words, I would like to have to give a password in order to see my word documents. Is there a way for me to do this?
Thanks!you could store your documents inside an *encrypted disk image*: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1578.
alternatively, put them in a folder and use e.g. Espionage.
JGG -
Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard Question - Converting PDF to word document
Question: I currently have Adobe Acrobat 8. I need to convert a PDF to word document. I know how to do that but the outcome of the word document sometimes varies as to retaining the exact formatting. How can I retain exact formatting? Is there something that I'm not doing that I need to be doing in order to retain the formatting. Also do newer versions (Adobe Acrobat 11 (Standard or Pro?)) do a better job of converting and retaining formatting?
Retaining the exact formatting is not possible in practice or in theory because Word documents are nothing like PDFs. For example, Word will cheerfully reflow text onto new lines or pages, while this will never happen with a PDF.
That said, Adobe keep trying to get closer to what people need. Sometimes this results in complex parts of the file being made into an uneditable graphic or text box.
Bottom line is you can get the basics into Word and then (according to your time, experience, and the abilities of Word) you might be able to reconstruct.
On no account convert official forms to Word. -
hi there, i'm trying to change a PDF document written in arabic to Word document, the problem is (( i can't find the arabic language in adobe )) the question is how to install the arabic language
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Answer to question about "Error Occurring when convertion is tried for PDF to Word Document"
There are about ten questions about the "Error Occurring" when using Abode Reader XLto convert a PDF to a Word Doc, but no one has the answer? It has something to do with "signing in the wrong address". I have been working on this three days Now! Soimeone has the answer? Cataloochee
You must be kidding to say, "Adobe doesn't convert any version of Adobe Reader."' I must be in another world! When i move an Adobe Reader file pdf that goes to a wIndow that the top line says,'' Adobe reader X1 1001 Early Dutch History. pdf ". Then i click on the far left yellow marked icon that is used to move 1001 Early Dutch History.pdf to thye far right into a gray colored slot that reads "1001 Early Dutch History.pdf'. Under the file above or down below, the selected File for conversionis, a selection gray slot that ask if you want to convert this file(pdf) to a .docx.,.doc, tex. or Excell. After I make the selection and click onto Convert, a message comes into view where the word convert was that reads "An Error Occurred wilth Signing In OK" Even the use of another pdf file with a complete different address produces the same message. There are eight chapters in Dutch that I need to convert to word document by tommorrow or the class i teach "the Origin of Golf" will have to listen in Dutch and I can't speak Dutch. Cataloochee
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I have a question for you: Inserting Word document in BLOB column
Hey Experts,
I have found a good info and a sample on how to achieve this on
http://www.sys-con.com/java/source/5-6/code.cfm?Page=76.
declare
f_lob bfile;
b_lob blob;
begin
insert into sam_emp(empno,ename,resume)
values ( 9001, 'Samir',empty_blob() )
return risumi into b_lob;
f_lob := bfilename( 'MY_FILES', 'MyResume.doc' );
dbms_lob.fileopen(f_lob, dbms_lob.file_readonly);
dbms_lob.loadfromfile
( b_lob, f_lob, dbms_lob.getlength(f_lob) );
dbms_lob.fileclose(f_lob);
commit;
end;
I have a jsp project and the users ( on the client side)must be
able to create a word document and send it to the server with an
uplaod servlet. With another servlet or jsp i want to process
this word document in BLOB column using JAVA. The sample above
uses PL/SQL to achieve this. Is there a way i can do this in my
servlet/jsp to do the same thing?
Any hints are welcome!The option should be visible here: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Printing%20a%20web%20page#w_print-window-settings
Print range section - Lets you specify which pages of the current web page are printed:
* Select '''All''' to print everything.
* Select '''Pages''' and enter the range of pages you want to print. For example, selecting "from 1 to 1" prints the first page only.
* Select '''Selection''' to print only the part the page you've highlighted.
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I have been sent a 'word document' in which are a series of boxes about thirty lines long to insert written text. When Pages opens the document it extends these to a whole A4 page how do I get it to retain the original layout
You can't change the way Pages import .doc files.
It was never written that it reproduce exactly the original one.
From my point of view, as I refuse to give a cent to M...soft, the best way to deal with documents issued by their Office suite is to use the free libreOffice.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 7 juillet 2011 11:34:19 iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8
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Why aren't images I captured using acrobat on a mac visible in a word document on a PC?
Hi guys
this question has been asked before, but I can't find any answers that address the exact problem I'm having.
I use a mac to create word documents that are read by other collaborators who use PCs. Until recently, I had created these documents on my Macbook Air, running OS X (snow leopard). These documents involve copying lots of images, for which I was using Adobe Reader 9, into word documents (I have word 2008). Using that setup, there was no problem.
Over the weekend I got a new iMac, which is running Mac OS v 10.7.2 (lion). I installed a full version of Adobe Acrobat Pro X. Still have word 2008 (I save my documents as ".doc" because some of my collaborators don't run new versions of word and don't have the capability to open ".docx" files).
I just got an email from one of my collaborators that she can't view any of the copied images in the document I just sent her (the first using the new setup). Each image is just an empty box with the words "quicktime and a decompressor are required to view this picture." I tried searching to see whether others have had this problem, and it appears they have - I see that this is mostly a problem (at least it was in the past) because macs convert files into TIFFs when they copy to the clipboard, which the PCs can't read.
Only problem is, all the threads I read about this problem recommended upgrading to word 2008 as a fix to the problem...but I have word 2008! So why is this happening? Or did it mean that the collaborator (not me) should upgrade to word 2008?
I don't know what version of word my collaborators have, but it may be impractical for me to tell them to upgrade their versions. Is there anything I can do on my end to prevent this from happening?
I will say that I had this problem when I initially started this job, but was able to fix it. At the time I was using preview to open pdfs and grab the images I needed. I switched and started using Reader 9 as my default, and found that as long as I used the camera tool to select my images, the problem disappeared. But in these new versions of acrobat (and reader, which I just downloaded), the camera button is gone, so it looks like there's only one way to select the image...unless someone knows a different one.
thanks for any tips you guys can give me!
ChrisIt's possible to add the camera (aka Take a Snapshot) tool to the toolbar in both Acrobat and Reader. Just right-click in the toolbar area, go to the Edit category, and select it.
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How to click a label and pop up a Word Document
hi!
i know this question has been asked many times...i did a search...but got alot of stuff that were either too much for me to read...or too tough for me...
i hope i can GEt some help here!
i am in a rush..thats why i opted to post it here instead.
question is:
i have a JLABel. hwo to create a link that once i click on it... a MS word DOC will open??
i already have the doc. file made...but need to link it to the label..such that once its clicked, the doc is opened...
thanks alot!!!A very important message about problem solving: Divide and conquer.
Stop thinking "clicking a label and open a word document".
Think
- "Clicking a label, and do something"
- "open a word document from a java program".
Go on, and think
- "How do I make my program notice when a specific label gets clicked"
- "What external command will open a word document?"
- "How do I run an external command from a java application?"
Look at the hints you've got. Read the documentation for the classes and methods you've been pointed towards. Look them up in the index in a good book. Read the tutorial. Write code. Experiment. Maybe come back here if you get stuck on something specific. -
Got errors when trying to open word document with Office Web App Server and customized WOPI host
I am configuring the Office Web App Server with our ASP.NET MVC WOPI host based on this example. https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/Building-an-Office-Web-f98650d6. While both the OWA server and WOPI server has been set up and I can use Excel and PowerPoint
app to open and edit xls and ppt file now, there are problems opening word documents no matter I enable or disable the editing function of OWA server.
When I open a word document while enabling editing I got this error:
If I disable editing I got this message:
I have tried several file so I thought it is not the files' problem. Also I didn't find any exception in the log of OWA server.Hi Gary Jiang,
Thanks for posting in MSDN forum.
This forum is for developers discussing issues about
apps for Office.
Based on the description, it seems that you got an issue when you deploy the code sample. If I understood clearly, I suggest that you contact the author of the code sample from the "Q and A" tab.
Also if you have the question about WOPI, I suggest that you get more effective response from
Office
Protocols forum.
Regards & Fei
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Create a Macro to Index a Word Document Line by Line
Background
I have collected a bunch of keywords and references to where I can find these words in a textbook. I've put them into a Word document where each line is one Index beginning with the “Main Entry” followed by a colon and then the “Subentry”. Note
that in the "Subentry" I have included my reference in parenthesis (b1-m2).
Example Original Text:
Main Entry:Subentry (b1-m2)
Example Marked for Index:
Main Entry:Subentry (b1-m2){ XE "Main Entry:Subentry (b1-m2)" \t "" }
When it was only a page of content it was no big deal to select the entire line and <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<x> then <Enter> down the line. Now that I have about 500 lines of these word combinations, I need a more automated solution.
I have searched for KB articles that explain the various elements I need, though unsuccessfully since I don’t know what I need. I doubt I am the first person to do this, so if anyone could point me to the right documents I would greatly appreciate
it.
As a noob, how difficult of a task is this to automate with a Macro or some other method and should I even attempt it? I have a very short window of time to figure this out.
Nice to have: In the final index, I don't need the Word page numbering after the term. My references are in the parenthesis. I know how to remove it manually in Word, when I mark the index entry: Chose Options, Cross-reference
and remove the pre-populated text of "see". That adds \t "" to the index reference.
Illustrated as such:
From: Main Entry:Subentry (b1-m2){ XE "Main Entry:Subentry (b1-m2)" }
To: Main Entry:Subentry (b1-m2){ XE "Main Entry:Subentry (b1-m2)" \t "" }
My Attempt at Recording a Macro
Having zero experience writing macro’s myself, I tried recorded a simple macro using the manual keystrokes below however the text reflected in the actual index reference does not change. I also have to manually kick off the macro on every line of text.
I walked through each of the steps outlined below as I was recording a macro, however when I replay the macro, the index itself contains the exact same text for every line and does not match the original text on the new line.
I could not get the macro to repeat itself on every line. I had to keep running it until I was done (technically, when I realized it was repeating the same text within the index reference itself) but I’d like the macro to run from beginning
to end; line by line and then insert the Index itself at the end on a new page.
I realize I need some kind of loop to keep the macro going line by line.
I also need some way to mark the Main Entry within the loop (everything to the left of the colon) and then the Subentry (everything to the right of the colon to the end of the line).
Example “Index” Macro
Sub Index()
' Index Macro
Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine, Extend:=wdExtend
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = True
ActiveDocument.Indexes.MarkEntry Range:=Selection.Range, Entry:= _
"TV\:The Good Wife (y2014-y2015)", EntryAutoText:= _
"TV\:The Good Wife (y2014-y2015)", CrossReference:="", _
CrossReferenceAutoText:="", BookmarkName:="", Bold:=False, Italic:=False
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
End Sub
Manually Marking Index Entries
Manually, here are the keystrokes I use to iterate my way through the document.
Manual Index Marking Keyboard Combinations:
At the beginning of the first line, press <Shift> + <End>
This selects the entire rows text
Then press <Ctrl> + <Shift> + <x>
This allows me to “Mark Index Entry”
Then press <Enter>
This confirms the Index entry
Then press <Esc>
This closes the “Mark Index Entry”
Go to the next line and repeat.
Replacing anchor
Once the creation of each index is complete, I need to be able to iterate through the document and find all anchor + colons (IE: \: ) and replace with colon (IE: :). This way, the “Main entry” and “Subentry” are handled properly when the Index is inserted.
Manual Anchor Replacement Keyboard Combinations:
At the beginning of the Word document, press <Ctrl> + <h>
Find what: \:
Replace with: :
Then <Alt> + <a>
Press the "Ok" button (or make replace silent somehow)
Then press <Esc>
This should close the "Find and Replace" screen
Inserting Index
Ideally, I would like the macro to create and insert the newly marked content into an index at the end of the document.
Manually Inserting Index Keyboard Combinations:
Press <Ctrl> + <End>
this takes us to the bottom of the document
Then press <Alt> + <s>
this chooses the "References" tab
Next press <Alt> + <x>
this chooses "Insert Index"
Next press <Alt> + <t>
This should allow you to choose a "Format" option for the index
Next press <m>
This should chose "Modern" from the "Formats" options
Finally, press <Enter>
End the macro
Example before Indexing:
TV:The Good Wife (y2014-y2015)
TV:Phineas and Ferb (y2011)
TV:Curb Your Enthusiasm (y2011-y2015)
Game:Back to the Future (y2012)
Made for TV Movie:The Magic 7(y2009)
Main Entry:Subentry (b1-m2)
Example after Indexing is completed:
The marked up text/references did not transfer over properly from the Word document I copied my question from. I had to manually type the text within the {} brackets for illustrative purposes here:
TV:The Good Wife (y2014-y2015){ XE "TV:The Good Wife (y2014-y2015)" }
TV:Phineas and Ferb (y2011){ XE "TV:Phineas and Ferb (y2011)" }
TV:Curb Your Enthusiasm (y2011-y2015){ XE "TV:Curb Your Enthusiasm (y2011-y2015)" }
Game:Back to the Future (y2012){ XE "Game:Back to the Future (y2012)" }
Made for TV Movie:The Magic 7(y2009){ XE "Made for TV Movie:The Magic 7(y2009)" }
Main Entry:Subentry (b1-m2){ XE "Main Entry:Subentry (b1-m2)" }
Example Index
G
Game
Back to the Future (y2012) · 2
M
Made for TV Movie
The Magic 7(y2009) · 2
Main Entry
Subentry (b1-m2) · 1,
2
T
TV
Curb Your Enthusiasm (y2011-y2015) · 2
Phineas and Ferb (y2011) · 2
The Good Wife (y2014-y2015) · 2
Chris SchurmanOnce I combined my Excel knowledge and Word knowledge, this became a piece of cake. Sharing my solution for anyone else who may have the need. The point of this exercise is to prepare for an open book exam and I need a quick index of my books
(there are 6 for this class). Anyway, here is how i solved (though slightly clunky, it works in seconds!)"
In Excel, I pieced the text together by concatenating the indexing markup and the contents of the pertinent cells as such:
=CONCATENATE("XE """,A2,":",B2," (b",C2,"-p",D2,")"" \t """"")
Content from Excel (with results of concantenate statement in last column:
Heading Slide Title Book Page Copy this into notepad then into word
Game Back to the Future 1 12 XE "Game:Back to the Future (b1-p12)"
Made for TV Movie The Magic 7 2 7 XE "Made for TV Movie:The Magic 7 (b2-p7)"
Main Entry Subentry 3 48 XE "Main Entry:Subentry (b3-p48)"
TV Curb Your Enthusiasm 4 100 XE "TV:Curb Your Enthusiasm (b4-p100)"
TV Phineas and Ferb 5 20 XE "TV:Phineas and Ferb (b5-p20)"
TV The Good Wife 6 35 XE "TV:The Good Wife (b6-p35)"
Then I paste special the "Values" of the last column into Word.
I run the macro below (haven't figured out how to loop yet) a few doxen times an insert the index at the bottom.
Sub Index()
' Index Macro
Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdLine
Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine, Extend:=wdExtend
Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend
Selection.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Type:=wdFieldEmpty, _
PreserveFormatting:=False
Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
End Sub
Bam; instant Index!
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Can one generate a report in Word document using PL/SQL?
We have a weekly status report application created in APEX, is there a way to generate a report in MS Word document (including formatting the doc) using PL/SQL by pulling data from Oracle database? Please shed some lights on this and any info and experience would be greatly appreciated.
We use Oracle11g and apex version 3.1.1.00.09
Thanks!Hi Tony,
you are right, the NEW format isn't necessarily improved, also the user would need at least Office 2007 or higher.
Still it is possible to do that ;-)
And yes, there are other possibilities, but this question is dealing with Word documents (.doc i assume).
Also my Statement "docx = XML" isn't clear enough. Docx is a zipped file which contains a xml file. Details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docx
sorry for the confusions,
Peter
Blog: http://www.oracle-and-apex.com
ApexLib: http://apexlib.oracleapex.info
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How do I generate a Word document and a PDF from Help files?
Hi,
I am new to RoboHelp HTML, and am using version 8. I updated some Help files, and now I want to generate output. Here are my questions/ or the process I used:
To compile the help, I clicked Generate Primary Layout. Is this correct? I noticed that the date stamp on the xpj file has not changed. The date is still from many months ago. (Why is that? Should it show a recent update date?) However, the files that I updated do reflect the dates when I made the updates. These include art files, an hhp, and htm, js, ldb, pss, cpd files.
To generate a pdf, I clicked Generate PDF. I was not able to generate the PDF at first, but then, I enabled macros in Word 2007 (Trust Center Settings > Enable all macros...and clicked the checkbox, Trust access to the VBA project object model), and clicked Generate PDF. At the end of the generation, I got this error in Word: Microsoft Office Word has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. The info you were working on might be lost. Word can try to recover it for you. I closed the dialog and Word generated several blank documents. Microsoft Office Diagnostics was run and found one problem and corrected it. Despite the error message, a pdf was generated. (If you could give me any insight on why I got the error messages, that could be helpful to know).
How do I generate a Word document?
Thank you!
ErinWelcome to our community
Note that RoboHelp is capable of creating a variety of layouts. WebHelp, FlashHelp, AIR Help, Microsoft HTML Help, JavaHelp, Oracle Help, ePub and more.
Any of these layouts may be nominated as the Primary layout. So when you generate the Primary layout, you get whatever has been configured as the Primary layout.
Only certain actions will result in a change to the .XPJ file. The actions are indicative of major changes to the project. So I wouldn't fret the fact that the date time stamp wasn't updated.
Indeed the Printed Documentation Single Source Layout recipe is what you use to create PDF. Generally what happens is that RoboHelp creates a Microsoft Word document as an intermediate file type, then creates the PDF from that. As you might imagine, there are a host of things that can go wrong during the process. I might suggest that you first get a Word document to generate cleanly. Then once you do that, focus on PDF. I know that I typically gen a Word document and stop there. I just open Word and use Word to create the PDF.
If you look at the properties for the Printed Documentation Single Source Layout recipe (View > Pods > Single Source Layouts then right-click the Printed Documentation layout and choose Properties) you will see that PDF, Word or both are options at the top of the dialog.
Hopefully that gives you a nudge in the right direction.
My fellow Adobe Community Expert Peter Grainge has excellent info on Printed Documentation on his site at Grainge.org. Click the link below for that.
Click here to visit Peter's site
Cheers... Rick
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Creating a new "Link to a Document" opens Word document or upload document dialog - plus more!
The Link to Document content type seems to be corrupted at root. When I attempt to create a new Link, either Word opens with a blank document or the "Upload" document dialog opens. It's been changing as I investigate.
One things I've noticed is that the "Link to a Document" Content Type on the parent site collection now shows it's parent as Document. this explains why the Word document opens, but not why the Upload dialog does.
While writing this question, I decided to check further and it seems that the other document types, Audio, Video etc. all now have Document as the parent and are opening a blank Word document.
Has anyone seen this behavior? How do I fix this?
This is on SharePoint 2010.
Thanks in advance.
Barry Cohen
Barry CohenWell, I spoke too soon. The process worked for all the custom content types, but the default Document type was still messed up. I probably should have fixed that one first, but...
Anyhow, the Document type had no template going to the Upload File dialog rather than the blank Word document it's supposed to go to. I followed the same procedure I'd followed for the other content types, checking what worked on another site and using that
template which in this case was a blank field:
So, I went opened Document, Document Content Type and went to advanced settings. The template field was empty, which matched the working site, so thinking that if I saved, it would match up with the working site. I saved the Document content type and when
after several minutes the save failed with an incredibly long list of locations where that were being perceived as "read only" plus several hidden content types that were listed as sealed. This snapshot shows a few of they many pages of content types. (I poorly
struck through confidential info):
Besides this gigantic error, which would require going to hundreds of locations on the site to change read access settings, which are, as far as I can tell actually not "read only" or are inaccessible, such as the hidden "System Page Layout' and so forth
which shouldn't be based upon the default document type anyway and therefor not fixable, I need to understand why this is happening and what to do about it. I don't want to spend the next two days going over all of these libaries and content types and ending
up back where I started with all the content types still screwed up. Afterall, I've spent about a day creating all these custom Content Types only to have the default Document content type loose its settings and corrupting everything and another day fixing
it and having it happen again.
This is a highly unacceptable behavior on the part of SharePoint and I would really like to fix this.
Help is sorely needed.
Thanks in advance
Barry Cohen
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