Questions tagged [sharepoint]
SharePoint is a collaboration platform by Microsoft.
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Is there way to download a pdf from sharepoint that has the download function turned off? [migrated]
I have view only access to some pdf's on Microsoft Sharepoint. I want to download these PDFs. Downloading is turned off for me so I can't download the file like I normally would. Is there a workaround?...
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SharePoint's "Open in desktop app" is not available in Office 2021 apps, how to show it?
I have been shared with a file in SharePoint but the Open in desktop app option is invisible. I appreciate any idea to fix it. Only these menu entries are visible in Excel:
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Broken zip when downloading from sharepoint site
I have to download about 200GB of data from a Microsoft 365 sharepoint site on a Mac. The downloaded zip files seem to be broken.
I have tried downloading smaller folder and fewer set of files at a ...
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As a SharePoint Guest, is there a way to attach files in the Outlook app for Windows using the "Browse Web Locations" feature?
I work in IT and am helping a SharePoint guest who works closely with another tenant, attach files to her Outlook client straight from that tenant's SharePoint. Is there way to make this work through &...
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How to autopopulate Sharepoint list with Power Automate?
Im trying to autopopulate a Sharepoint list with names of the employeey with Power automate. The names of employees I want to retrieve from Office 365 Users.
I already created a flow for this but it ...
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Powerpoint file downloaded from Sharepoint gets ruined by upstream changes in bizarre fashion
I downloaded a pptx file from our company's Sharepoint repository (by right-clicking and choosing 'Download'). Then I moved the file on to my Desktop, which is synchronized into OneDrive. Then I made ...
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Send notification of new sharepoint news by mail automatically
I have a SP modern Team site with "News" web part on the main page. I want to notify users via email when news are posted.
It is possible to send a digest to email manually.
However, I want ...
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How to move to next slide in PowerPoint Web App?
I have a PowerPoint file in SharePoint. When I copy a link to share the file (e.g. in a meeting agenda), then I click on that link, it opens up in the PowerPoint Web App. In there, if I'm editing a ...
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Is it possible to search a Sharepoint documents library and exclude results from any directories named "Archive" and subdirectories of "Archive"?
Is there search query syntax that can be entered at the top of the SharePoint Microsoft 365 site in the search box to search for any files and folders that meet a given word or words but not include ...
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Publish Word document as web page via OneDrive for Business
I need to share a Word document (named MyPage.docx) with tables and images via OneDrive Business as a web page with colleagues. The Word document is updated regularly.
When I save the Word document as ...
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Copy a file from a computer to a SharePoint folder either using xcopy or robocopy
I am trying to copy a file that is stored on a local disk C on my computer to a SharePoint folder using either xcopy or robocopy. is there any way to do that?
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Getting user names from a Sharepoint.files() extraction (Power Query)
From Sharepoint, I am able to extract a table containing filenames, file extensions, and dates...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/connectors/sharepoint-folder
However, I would like to ...
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How to build a library of reusable slides for PowerPoint?
Our company has recently had a rebrand and we are redesigning all our slide decks, we have about 100 unique slides that get used in various scenarios and sometimes not all slides are needed.
I'd like ...
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How to access sharepoint files on task scheduler when not logged in
I have a powerflow setup saving certain email attachments to a sharepoint folder. Our sharepoint syncs to onedrive. I have a python script that takes these excel files, reworks them and saves them to ...
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Export to excel error caused by netscaler loadbalncer
We are curently migrating from SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint SE and we are facing strange authenticationg issue on new SHP SE enviroment.
Authentication is NTLM and what is happening besides all other ...
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Why are there two locations for SharePoint and why don't they show the same files?
On my SharePoint I have synced it with my local drive and I see two locations.
https://yellowshoe.sharepoint.com/sites/HR/Shared Documents/SFB Consulting
Z:\One Drive Square Balloon\Yellowshoe ...
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Excel redirecting/changing sharepoint links so they become invalid?
I have a list of links which open up profiles for materials in sharepoint.
I store these within an excel table, however, when I go to click on the link it appears to change from what is in the cell.
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PowerPoint opens old version of file instead of the most recently saved
I have a presentation I have worked on for some hours, and which I have saved regularly.
When going to the open file dialogue in PowerPoint I see that it is last saved ~5 minutes ago.
However, when ...
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Folder junction/link to a OneDrive/SP folder that retains OneDrive features?
We have a request to change the location of OneDrive/SP synced files to the c:\ root folder.
However, this would require the change of all OneDrive folders (personal synced folders, SP libraries, etc)....
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Access Denied to local document, offering to request permission on SharePoint
A colleague of mine has encountered this error while trying to access a document on a file share.
Access Denied
You do not have access to view this file. Would you like to request for permission on ...
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Change resource Working Time (add vacations) in MS Project (PWA)
Clicking on "Project" -> "Change Working Time" and choosing the resource, does not allow me to change the work time.
There's no dropdown arrow in Start and End columns... In MS ...
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Sharepoint document shared with me no longer opens in browser
My colleague J at another institution shared a read-only Sharepoint document with me and other colleagues at other institutions via link sharing. I was able to view the whole document in my browser ...
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Mounting a SharePoint folder in Windows 10 without IE
There are multiple questions and tutorials that show how to mount a Sharepoint storage directory as network drive on Windows 10. Unfortunately all ways to mount a Sharepoint storage in Windows seem to ...
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Excel powerquery with sharepoint workbook - We couldn't authenticate with the credentials provided
I'm trying to add a SharePoint 365 workbook as an Excel data source to another SharePoint 365 workbook.
I am signed in with the correct account according to Excel. When I try to add the data source, ...
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Is there a risk of breaking a document by opening in word online
I use sharepoint in my Company.
Each time I want to view a document, I right click on it and then choose "preview" or "Open in word" (for desktop) instead of directly clicking on ...
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Sharepoint/One Drive "Free up space"
I use sharepoint to host files on the cloud, with a shortcut added to OneDrive so we can browse the files through windows explorer.
We have a lot of automation, which pulls files locally and processes ...
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Does Word provide an explicit menu option to check in/out of SharePoint?
We use on-premises SharePoint and often when opening a Word file, it prompts me with a yellow header bar to make a document editable, and check it out. Some times when saving, I am similarly prompted ...
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Merging two lists in Excel
The Situation:
I have two teams both on separate sheets of an excel document writing out the info of people they talk to each day (Name, customer number, Date etc).
The third team want a sheet with ...
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Excel custom sort list works in Excel but not when file is transferred to SharePoint
I created a custom sort list of fiscal weeks that I use for my reports in Excel. For many reports I also use them as a Slicer. I have come across the issue where this custom sort list works perfectly ...
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Determining if a OneDrive file is synced locally via a terminal
Is there any way to check if a OneDrive file is saved locally via a terminal in Windows?
I'd like to automatically run a check of all data files associated with a project without the user having to ...
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How to remove or disable a SharePoint email notification in Microsoft 365
I created an email notification in SharePoint 365 recently for changes to a library or folder, and I get emails constantly when files are added in any folder or subfolder. This isn't what I intended, ...
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Onedrive doesn't sync to the building icon, instead sync to the OneDrive - Tenant Name
I tried syncing a Teams General folder to Onedrive in a new PC, but it is always syncing to Onedrive - Icon in Onedrive
We are using Microsoft Teams in the company, and we had added several Teams ...
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Can I add our company Sharepoint portal URL to always show in File Open/Save dialog?
We have on-premises Sharepoint Server 2019. When I open a file from SP in Word, and do "save as" then the SP is shown as a save location like the following https://portal.GreatWidgets.com/...
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How can I create a new Word 365 from a template stored in SharePoint?
Pre-Sharepoint things were easy. You double-clicked a .dot file and automatically got a new document from this template. Or you could add a folder to Word and templates in that folder would be ...
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Shared Azure FSlogix Environments and Issues with Shared Volumes
We have 20 users split over two separate Azure/Windows 10 desktop environments. FSlogix is doing AD duties, and we have a shared SharePoint volume that everyone accesses via their remote desktop. The ...
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How to update excel links after excel docs transferred from Server to Teams/Sharepoint
I currently have many excel workbooks on the office server.
These contain many links between different workbooks.
We are migrating these docs over to Teams and I am doing a test.
Once in Teams (or ...
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Word Templates - how to make a document portable?
We would like to be able to collaborate on documents and ensure that the same template is found and used by Word on whatever machine is being used to edit it. We also would like updates to the ...
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Windows 7 | Microsoft SharePoint has stopped working | WerFault.exe Related to this message
I am in windows 7 - SP1 - Updated till may 2021.(PC)
Eset smart security with full license for 1 year has installed.
Some days ago when i started my windows after complete loading i faced this error ...
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O365 delete events from Group Calendar
Trying to migrate from a Shared Calendar to a Group Calendar to get things more integrated into Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook.
I tried to copy events from a Shared Calendar to a Group Calendar by ...
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How do I show dates in UK format in an Excel when viewed in a browser?
We have a sheet on SharePoint for Daily Standup notes. If I open the document in my browser, the date format is mm/dd/yyyy (incorrect). If I open in the desktop application, the dates show as dd/mm/...
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Prevent Microsoft Office from showing a warning when opening a Project file from Sharepoint
When I open a .mpp file on our SharePoint site, Office displays this warning
I only see this warning for Project files, I don't see it for Word or Excel files which load into the desktop app.
How do ...
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Open sharepoint word file in users desktop app by clicking on direct hyperlink to word document
In our web application, we have direct link to word document in SharePoint site. So when user clicks on the hyperlink, I would like to open that in users local desktop word application. But I am ...
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How can I access contents of a SharePoint repo without downloading contents to my computer?
OK so I will probably butcher some terminology but bear with me...
Our organization in transitioning to the Microsoft infrastructure. One thing that was done was backup to SharePoint of a NAS backup ...
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Does filtering a table in Excel stored in SharePoint Online filter it for all the other people looking at the Sheet?
I’ve used earlier versions of Excel where filtering a sheet meant that it would do the same for others on the network with the file open; is the same true of one stored in SharePoint Online?
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Configure Office workgroup templates for Office365 from SharePoint location
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We have updated custom corporate templates to be used by staff for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel and these were loaded on Microsoft SharePoint.
We would like to ensure that ...
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Power Queries in Excel just default to "anonymous" and doesn't ask for login info
I have created multiple Excel sheets for my coworkers, many of which involve power query connections to our corporate SharePoint site. When I set it up, I logged into my SharePoint account to ...
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Excel online workbook cache local file which is password protected - content.mso
We are going through the process of moving our files to sharepoint, a few of our workbooks are linked to other workbooks which are all password protected.
When I open Workbook 1 which is linked to ...
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Excel rows of data suddenly disappeared after undoing deletion of unrelated rows. Version history suddenly blank. Get my data back?
I have been editing an Excel workbook for 6 days. The workbook is saved in sharepoint and also marked to always be kept on my laptop. I have saved this .xlsx file dozens of times in the last few days.
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Avoiding file replication in MS 365 products
I have an existing file/folder on my Onedrive. I would like to achieve the following:
Make this file/folder available in the "files tab" of a Teams channel or a shared Sharepoint folder ...
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Open desktop shortcut to SharePoint directly in Excel
I have a desktop shortcut to a shared Excel spreadsheet that I use daily. It lives in a Microsoft Teams folder, i.e. on SharePoint. This shortcut opens a browser window asking me if I want to open the ...
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