Questions tagged [sharepoint]
SharePoint is a collaboration platform by Microsoft.
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Windows 8.1: Remove Sharepoint link
I once had installed a Link to a Sharepoint service on my Windows 8.1 PC. I'm not sure which programm I used. Most likely OneNote 2013 or Outlook 2013.
Now this sharepoint resource is not provided ...
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What is the use of a sharepoint crawl? [closed]
I know a crawl is used to update the index in order to do a search on sharepoint quickly. But what I do not understand why one needs a crawl in the first place!
Whenever a page is updated, added or ...
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Can I use an excel book in SharePoint as my eternal data source?
Is it possible to use a data table from an excel workbook that's on SharePoint as an external data source to a workbook on my local drive or another location in SharePoint?
There is a massive excel ...
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Adding mapped Sharepoint as a "Trusted Location" in Office 2016 for macro enabled files
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I'm trying to add a mapped Sharepoint Library to Trusted Location in Office for macro enabled files so end users don't have to select "Enable Macros" every time they launch the file. ...
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Open Editform.aspx when clicking on New Button - SharePoint Online
Good day,
I am working on Office 365: SharePoint online.
I am trying to do the following: I have a library with a custom content type with many columns. Also have a template attached to this content ...
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SharePoint keyboard shortcuts not working
According to MS documentation, these are the keyboard shortcuts for SharePoint:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Keyboard-shortcuts-for-SharePoint-products-7dec847a-4f2a-47f6-9964-...
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Copy of emails from Sharepoint (Nintex) workflow being received in wrong mailboxes
This is a bit of a weird one and I will try to explain as best I can.
I have a Sharepoint 2010 intranet site. It has a number of workflows set up using Nintex Workflow, some of which send various ...
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How do I trust a UNC path?
I have a shortcut on my desktop to a document:
"\\mycompany.sharepoint.com@SSL\DavWWWRoot\MTCTeamSite\tech\Shared Documents\Team Documents\spreadsheet.xlsm"
Every time I open it in Excel I ...
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Trying to e-mail a SharePoint calendar from Outlook, limited to 2800 appointments?
I have SharePoint 2010 calendar that I've connected to Microsoft Outlook 2010. I right-clicked the calendar in Outlook and selected Share -> E-mail, but when attaching the calendar, I receive this ...
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Blank icon overlay for synced folders and files?
You can see the actual icons behind the overlay. Also when I first load the contents of the folder the correct icons show. I'm assuming this is the green/yellow dot to show sync status. This ...
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Merge Data From Multiple Columns - Sharepoint Survery Results
I am using SharePoint to collect data through its survey feature. However, I want to make the output data more manageable. As such, I want to take the multiple columns and consolidate them into a few.
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All Sharepoint 2010 Lists not showing title on edit or add [closed]
I have Sharepoint 2010.
Everything was fine, until suddenly Lists are not showing title on editing or adding.. I even tried creating new lists, same problem.
Any idea why this happened & what can ...
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Version of MSI to use for SharePoint online management from PowerShell
The following KB article is a rather vague on which MSI to use in what circumstances:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=35588
There are obviously 32-bit and 64-bit versions. ...
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How to set up data validation to allow only a date or a specific string on SharePoint 2013
I would like to use Column Validation to ensure someone has entered a valid date, but I'd also like them to be able enter TBD - just those two options. Is this at all possible? Is there a custom ...
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Opening SharePoint files from Excel's recent file list always locks the file for writing
I use SharePoint extensively, and I find the "recent files" list within the Office applications to be quite a time saver. The problem is that I do not always wish to edit a file when I open it, but ...
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A fatal error occurred while creating an SSL client credential. The internal error state is 10013
We keep receiving the following message on our computer, every minute or so. It seems associated with a locally synced SharePoint document library. Here is the message:
Something went wrong. We ...
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Mapped Drive Storage Size Matches my Windows Drive?
I have a couple of drives mapped to a SharePoint site. When I open Windows 10 Explorer and look at the details of my Windows (C:) drive, it tells be there are "4.77 GB free of 66.7 GB".
When I look ...
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Windows Explorer cannot access SharePoint until web login occurs
I can open a SharePoint site in Windows Explorer by navigating to the site using Internet Explorer and clicking Library > Open with Explorer. Then, I can add the site to my Windows Explorer ...
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SharePoint calculated column to check if the cells of the row have value, if any of the cells have value then take up that value
I need a calculated column formula for following condition:
There are three columns "Column1", "Column2" & "Column3" in sharepoint list.
I want to check if any of these column have value in it. ...
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Sharepoint Sites on SP 2010
Just recently on the 23rd or 24th of November we ran into a problem where everyone's "SharePoint Sites" folder on their local PC lost all the shortcuts to their sites.
So we tried the usual remove ...
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How to automatically activate auditing on Office 365?
We're testing Office365 and are playing with the settings for reporting/auditing on OneDrive for Business. We need to be able to see who has opened/edited/blah all files as all companies do for ...
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Hyperlinks in Excel 2013
I have an Excel 2013/Office 365 spreadsheet stored in a SharePoint Library. It contains hyperlinks created using the "Place In This Document" functionality - not a hyperlink formula. The links are all ...
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Different Sharepoint filepaths in different environments
We have a VBA application in Excel (UserForm) that users use to update another excel workbook via SQL. The two files are side by side in an MS Sharepoint folder. There are two kinds of users – first ...
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How to open windows explorer like Sharepoint does?
In Sharepoint I have a command to see a collection inside windows explorer (really handly if you ask me).
How can I tell Windows explorer to open directly that URL without having to go inside ...
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Excel 2010 Crashes When Opening Files From Sharepoint (office 365)
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A user has Excel 2010 and is attempting to open an Excel document from our Office 365 Sharepoint server. Excel Crashes when attempting to open the file with a faulting file "mso.dll"
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SharePoint Formula =IF(ISBLANK)
Is anyone able to tell me how to fix my formula. I have tried everything and I continue to get an error message. I am running out of options.
I am trying to hide the SharePoint default date of 12/30/...
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where to get the name of excel file?
There are some documents stored in a SharePoint document list. Using a IE browser, we have the option of opening the file directly in Excel. But on doing this, excel starts and downloads the file and ...
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Unexplained password prompt on Windows 8.1 Pro, SharePoint?
I'm trying to solve a bit of a mystery that seems connected to SharePoint on my Windows 8.1 Pro (via Pro Pack upgrade) machine. To my knowledge I have never intentionally installed any SharePoint ...
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Team Foundation 2013 + Sharepoint - strange behaviour
I just update my TFS 2010 + Sharepoint to TFS 2013 + Sharepoint foundation.
Everything is ok, I created a website, collections, documents and everything.
When I linked the TFS project collection to ...
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Sharepoint 365 teamsite - Ondrive for Business syncing - confusion with OneDrive app
So a user has documents in both OneDrive for Business and a Sharepoint teams site.
The "OneDrive" app is syncing both to different folders. One is the "OneDrive for Business" folder and the other is ...
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Can we make event on Outlook calendar, and show on SharePoint calendar?
Can we make event on Outlook calendar, and show on SharePoint calendar
by don’t have to copy or drag and drop Outlook calendar’s event to SharePoint calendar’s event?
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How to make a working copy of a SharePoint 2010 document library?
I'm looking for a way to make a local working copy of a document library placed on SharePoint 2010 server. An approach I keep in mind is similar to the one used in source code management systems like ...
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OneDrive for Business - Critical Error when trying to sync files
I've been getting a critical error recently with OneDrive when it attempts to synchronize:
I use the OneDrive component mainly to sync with SharePoint files, so this has become very annoying. This ...
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"Incompatible Office products are installed on your machine" when opening Office documents or browsing OneDrive or SharePoint Site
I'm running Office 2013 Pro Plus 32-bit (MSI-based) on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. When trying to open an Excel, Word, or PowerPoint documents I get this error message:
Sorry, we can't perform this ...
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Why is sharepoint (onedrive) giving the error "Links to external workbooks are not supported and have been disabled" when there are no external links?
I have tried everything I can think of, and everything the internet has to offer:
Find function
Go-To Special, Objects - manually inspect each
An add-in for finding external links
Manually searching ...
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Office applications cannot download files from sharepoint
When i try to download and edit (check out) a file from our sharepoint server, the splashscreen for the appropriate office application opens and states that its "Downloading" the file (See picture; "...
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Mount SharePoint Online (Office 365) in Linux
We have started using SharePoint Online included with our Office 365 subscription. Our windows users can install software that automatically syncs the Shared Documents from SharePoint to their ...
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Outlook cannot login to Sharepoint
My Outlook 2013 connects to an Office 365 account and handles mails correctly.
When I get mails from my co-workers, it shows an exclamation mark claiming that it cannot log in to Sharepoint (yet is ...
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How can I make Firefox automatically fill a username/password form and submit it?
In our staff lounge I have installed a PC with a large TV to display our company notices. The notices are published on an external SharePoint page at head office and displayed in the lounge with ...
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How to change Sharepoint admistrator password
I chose not to put this on ServerFault as I am asking it as a user, not a network administrator. I have a Sharepoint server set up at my office and I can log in as admin (System Account). However, I ...
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Xcopy or Robocopy from Network folder to SharePoint(2013)
I am trying to copy files from a network folder to a SharePoint folder. I have read/write permissions to the SP folder and can manually upload documents to it.
I was able to get the .bat to work 1 ...
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Connect to Outlook button missing from Sharepoint
I am using IE 11 to access a Sharepoint site with a calendar. On IE 10 I could see the option to connect the calendar to Outlook, but on IE 11 this option is missing.
On Windows 7, downgrading to IE ...
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Making calculated column fo weeknum in sharepoint 2007
Im using sharepoint 2007, and there is no weeknum function built-in.
how can I add calculated column in sharepoint list to show weeknum of date in another column?
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Having trouble mapping Sharepoint document library as a Network Place
I am using Office 365, Sharepoint Online 2013. Using Internet Explorer these are the steps I have taken: ticked the keep me signed in on the portal.microsoftonline.com page. It redirects me to ...
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Cant edit excel file in Sharepoint because it has Comments, Shapes, or other objects
I have an excel sheet in a Sharepoint which is no longer editable in browser because Sharepoint complains that there are "Comments, Shapes, or other objects" and that is apparently not supported. I'm ...
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How to connect to Sharepoint files directory via some software resembling WinSCP or SmartFTP
I need to download around 2000 files from a Sharepoint website and it is gonna take me ages to do that by downloading files one by one when I connect to website via some web browser...
I would prefer ...
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We can't install the 64-bit version of office because we found the following 32-bit programs
I have Office 2013 64-bit installed. Never installed any other office version. When I am trying to install Sharepoint Designer 64-bit, I am receiving the error on the title. Tried Sharepoint Designer ...
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Overwrote a file in Sharepoint 2013. How can I recover it?
I did check both Recycle Bins (Stage 1 and 2), and the old version wasn't there. I think this is because I overwrote the file, instead of deleting it. Is there any other place to look?
Thanks
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How to save a copy of a folder automatically from sharePoint on a weekly basis?
I need to save a copy of a particular folder present in SharePoint on a weekly basis because the same document is edited and used as new for the next week.
As this is done manually, many times fail ...
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Powershell: The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered
I am trying to run a PowerShell script from a windows batch file. This is a SharePoint related script that uses Import-SPData.
This works without any issue when using USERA's login. However, if I try ...