I had a question from a customer recently: "On a Details Form, copy+paste gives me more fields than Export to Excel, so why would I use Export to Excel?". Below was my answer... Copy+paste will give you values for all the visible form fields from the current datasource. Export to Excel will initially...

Recently I had a someone ask me how to turn off or disable the Export to Excel task. Unfortunately, like most tasks, it can't be disabled via the options dialog like the Document handling subsystem can be (Tools/Options/General/Miscellaneous/Document handling active). In the AX2012 client, the task...

We did a lot of performance improvements for the Dynamics AX 2012 R2 Excel Add-in, but there is still one scenario that causes a lot of trouble... copy and paste. When a large data set is pasted into a field bound table, then the VSTO change tracking evaluates the changes on the entire table after...

Office 365 provides secure anywhere access to Microsoft Office capabilities including document collaboration. Users can create, store, and edit Office documents online in Office 365. SharePoint Online can be thought of as the storage mechanism for Office 365 documents. Document Generation and Office...

One of the more common Office Add-ins questions I get asked is "Why don't the Office Add-ins work with Office 2007?" They do, but you need a hotfix or service pack 3. Bill Thompson explains in more detail in his post: Dynamics AX 2012 Office Add-ins and Office 2007

I've heard from a few people having problems with size limitations when publishing from the Dynamics AX 2012 Excel Add-in to the server. People that are receiving a message like “ Method ‘System.ServiceModel.CommunicationObjectFaultedException.Detail’ not found ” are probably...

The Office Add-ins for Dynamics AX 2012 are a great tool for working with Dynamics AX data. The Word Add-in primarily enables document generation and the Excel Add-in enables a number of scenarios involving Dynamics AX data including refreshable data exports, adhoc reporting, document generation, data...