Where could I find a list of mime types and identifying characters for office 2007 files. I have an upload form that is restricting uploads based on extension and identifying characters but I cannot seem to find the Office 2007 mime types. ...
Problem: I have two spreadsheets that each serve different purposes but contain one particular piece of data that needs to be the same in both spreadsheets. This piece of data (one of the columns) gets updated in spreadsheet A but needs to also be updated in spreadsheet B. Goal: A solution that would somehow link these two spreadshe...
Hi all I'm creating an automated installation of Office 2007. To customise your Office 2007 installation the Office Customization Tool (OCT) does most of the work for you. One the OCT's features is the ability to run additional programs during the Office installation. However it is pretty poor at it. Fortunately by editing the app...
I am trying to create an email two column flexible layout, which works in outlook 07, i have created a successful version in outlook 03, hotmail, gmail, yahoo and aol, in both IE and Mozilla Firefox, however when testing in outlook 07 it strips out my float left css. What I would like is a layout that has a photo on the left and text o...
I have an infopath 2007 form that I am developing which uses 3 different views. The 3 different views are basically the same form, but have different text boxes shown, depending upon what button the user selects. I run into a problem where 'view 1' has some form validation, but the user has selected 'view 2' and submits it. The form val...
Understandably the Ribbon UI doesn't suit every application, or even most of them, however I'm suprised so few developers have chosen to adopt it. Any ideas why? How much work would be involved for a fairly major application to get the new UI? ...
I have a website where people can upload documents, and view them later at their convenience. I store the binary info along with the mime type in my db, and later just stream the binary content straight to the browser. This works for for every file type except Office 2007 files. When I try to view the Office 2007 files, I get a popup re...
I am a developer for a .net application that uses ClickOnce for deployment. I have deployed it over 60 times and computers have not had any issues downloading the latest release. However, when I deployed this morning, the following error occurs when computers with Office 2007 installed tries to start the application: Unable to instal...
I'm creating a new mail item, in C# VS-2008 outlook 2007, and attaching a file. The first issue is that I don't see an attachment area under the subject line showing the attachment. If I send the e-mail its properties show that there is an attachment and the e-mail size has grown by the attachment amount. I just cannot see it or extra...
An application currently in development has the requirements for using MS Word to perform spell check on certain textareas within the application. I currently have Office 2007 (which is the Office 12 com objects). My question is, if I add in the Office 12 objects what will happen on boxes which have Office 2003? This is in regards to ...
What happens when the Office 2003 PIA prerequisite and launch condition in a Windows installer are run against an Office 2007 system? ...
Hello, I have a web project where I must import text and images from a user-supplied document, and one of the possible formats is Microsoft Office 2007. There's also a need to generate documents in this format. The server runs CentOS 5.2 and has PHP/Perl/Python installed. I can execute local binaries and shell scripts if I must. We use...
I see some messing with Word and Excel files via add-ins or code-behinds in the near future. Have no prior experience with programming Office solutions.. except a few random hacks... so would like a Getting Started / Cookbook type of book. I've looked up the net and found a few. Unfortunately reviews are rare on these books.. So in cas...
Does anyone know how to get the MS Office 2007 .NET C# Interop libraries to work with Vista? I have a .NET C# application that I have setup to run as a Windows service. This program will open up a Word or Excel template depending on the situation and modify its contents and then save the document back out. All of this worked great ...
We have a weird intermittent problem with saving from Word 2007 to our SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) document libraries that gives a dialog box that never goes away - it is titled "Content Types" and the message "Getting list of available content types..." with a green progress-type bar that keeps scrolling. It happens a lot on our training ser...
If you create a simple "Hello World" VSTO2SE add-in targeting Microsoft Office Excel 2003, it takes 15 seconds to load on a cold startup. During that time, Excel is completely unresponsive. The cold-startup time is always poor in Excel 2003. I have seen one test machine where the startup time is instant in Excel 2007, but all my oth...
This IS a programming-related question. The actual numbers should guide how we build our app. ...
Is it possible to use a people picker within a field in Word 2007, in order to populate the document with known values from AD user objects? ...
I'm writing a web app (Java) which allows users to select contacts. The contacts details can be downloaded (currently in CSV format) and used to perform a mail merge in Word 2007. I would like to use a format which is a bit more 'robust' than CSV. Those of you in non-English areas will know the comma/semicolon problems! Which format wo...
Context: I have a WPF App that uses certain unmanaged DLLs in the D:\WordAutomation\MyApp_Source\Executables\MyApp folder. I can double click the exe and everything runs. Next I have a Word 2007 code-behind project, that references relevant managed DLLs in the above folder and tries to do the same thing.. bring up the App UI. After ...