XML mapping with Word & SharePoint

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Doug Mahugh — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:39:36 GMT

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re: XML mapping with Word & SharePoint

Stefan KZVB — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:51:53 GMT

I'm still examining the issue with the write-protected files in the start folder of Word 2007. I discovered the following which seems like the same issue:

1) Open the normal.dotm from a location on C: using Word 2007 => it will open without any dialog or write-protection!

2) Change the user template path in Word's options to a network location and copy your normal.dotm there

3) Restart Word 2007

4) Open the normal.dotm from the network location using Word 2007 : You'll get a dialog telling you that normal.dotm is in use by yourself, offering to open it write-protected, open a local copy or get a notification.

Why is Word behaving different when the file is on a network location?

re: XML mapping with Word & SharePoint

wes — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:18:08 GMT

HELP!

Who decided to save the .qat files to the LOCAL SETTINGS folder? This prevents it from roaming with users who use roaming profiles so our users lose their settings every time they log off and back on (terminal server environment).

How can we address this?

Please let us know!

thanks,

Wes

wes@myf.org

re: XML mapping with Word & SharePoint

Matthew Robertson — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:24:58 GMT

As an avid Office user, I was severely disappointed when the RTM version of Word 2007 had a button to old WordArt. Yes, old WordArt. Dear God. Why this damn this still here? In B2 and B2TR, I thought it was put there temporarily. But in RTM?! (I downloaded the trial.)

What really shocks me is that the new WordArt is implemented. It's in Excel. It's in PowerPoint. But why does Word have old WordArt? (Actually, the new WordArt *is* implemented in Word, but through a loophole. When you create a SmartArt, the SmartArt Tools' 'Format' has new WordArt styles.)

Oh, how I wished my computer illiterate friends would finally replace those horrible old WordArt styles in their documents.

I seriously hope there's an update for this.

(NB. I just don't get it -- it's there; it's there. But then, it's no there. Ran out of time?)

(NB2. This e-mail is not a sledge to the Office 2007 suite as a whole. As a whole its revolutionary. I just wonder why this *feature* is absent from *Word*)

Cheers,

Matthew.

re: XML mapping with Word & SharePoint

Derek Daniels — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:53:27 GMT

This is great for a library of Word documents. But could this be extended to let me pull data from multiple InfoPath forms into a single Word document?

I would like to combine information from 40+ status reports submitted to a SharePoint via InfoPath into one Word document with full control over the way the document looks. InfoPath lets me "merge," but I have been unable to get the data formatted the way I need it. So far I haven't had much luck even accessing this data through code. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Derek

re: XML mapping with Word & SharePoint

Andrew Goodwin — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:38:27 GMT

This can be implemented for custom metadata and a few defaults, however 'Version' doesn't seem to be available? Or am I missing something?

Surely one of the more important columns that users may wish to include in a document header. How can this be added??

/Andrew

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