How to get Excel and Powerpoint Button under New Button in SharePoint Document Library
Best you can do this at your top level site (=Site Collection to modify it on all subsites).
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Go to Settings > Document Library Settings > Advanced Settings
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Set "Allow management of content types" to Yes
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Go back to the Document Library Settings
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Add a new content type by
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Site Actions > Site Settings > Galleries > Site Content Types
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Create new content type as in the following image
- Go to Settings > Document Library Settings
- In the section Content types select: "Add from existing site content types"
- Select your Excel Site Content Type (which you just created)
- Modify the URL of an existing document template by:
- Site Settings > Site Content Type > Advanced Settings of the new content type
- Create an empty excel and powerpoint file on your desktop.
- Give this files the names: template.xls and tempate.ppt
- Upload a new document template:
- Select template.xls or .ppt (depending the content type you’re creating).
Do the same for powerpoint. Your document library new settings would look like:
Loading a custom menu build in Office into SharePoint WebPart
In Powerpoint and Word 2007 (and Word 2010) we can choose to save as: Single File Web Page (*.mht; *.mhtml). In this way we can make a nice graphical menu structure (using e.g. shapes and hyperlinks).
So I made a simple organogram and added hyperlinks to to shapes. This hyperlinks point to sharepoint pages. It looks like:
- Save your menu (or clickable presentation) as Single File Web Page (Not in PowerPoint 2010, here you have to choose Word).
- Upload the .mht file to a document library
- Add a Page Viewer WebPart to a Page
- Point the Page Viewer WebPart URL to the .mht file of that doc lib
Works in SharePoint 2007 (Office 2007) and SharePoint 2010 (Office 2010, however the optiion to save as single file web page has been removed in PowerPoint 2010 Beta).
Office 14 Alpha Screenshots leak
Microsoft Office 14 ("Office 14" for short) is the working title for the next version of the Microsoft Office productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It entered development during 2006 while Microsoft was finishing work on Microsoft Office 12, which was released as the 2007 Microsoft Office System. The major version number 13 has been skipped, presumably due to aversion to the number 13. It was previously thought that Office 14 would ship in the first half of 2009,[1] but more recent information suggests a late 2009/early 2010 release timeframe.Microsoft Office 14 is expected to be released around the time of Windows 7. According to an article published in InfoWorld in April 2006, Office 14 will be more "role-based" than previous versions. The article cites Simon Witts, corporate vice president for Microsoft's Enterprise and Partner Group, as claiming that there would be features tailored to employees in "roles such as research and development professionals, sales persons, and human resources." Borrowing from ideas termed "Web 2.0" when implemented on the Internet, it is likely that Microsoft will incorporate features of SharePoint Server in Office 14.
Office 14 will implement the ISO compliant version of Office Open XML which was standardized as ISO 29500 in March 2008. Microsoft plans to offer a Web-based version of its Office productivity suite, known as Office Web, that will debut with the release of Office 14. Office Web will include online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
Original Text: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_14
On January 15, 2009, screenshots of an Office 14 alpha build were leaked by a tester. You can see them here: http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/15/office-14-alpha-screenshots-leak
MOSS 2007 products comparison
I got a lot of questions about differences between SharePoint 2003 and SharePoint 2007. In the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 products comparison (document) you can find a complete breakdown of the features and a comparison between different server editions.
You can find the document at the Microsoft Office site.
Another thing you really need on the wall in your development office are the Developer Posters for the Microsoft Office 2007 System. They are also very clear to explain differences between the different Office Server Products (e.g. WSS3.0 and MOSS 2007). Download the posters from the Microsoft site.
For the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) supporters there is also an Interactive Developer Map for Microsoft Office which is installable via ClickOnce.