Previously, I’ve mentioned how the Document Conversion Service doesn’t extract images and about how you have to insert them as linked objects. Well, it turns out that there are easier ways to link objects in than I’d explained previously. Continue reading
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Comparison of different ways of putting content into SharePoint ‘Pages’
Previously I’ve looked at a couple of ways of entering your data into a Publishing Page. Well, it turns out that really there are 3 ways of putting content in:
- Writing content directly using the Content Editor control (the RichHTMLField control)
- Writing content in Word 2007 and using the Document Conversion service
- Writing content in Word 2007 and cutting and pasting(!)
I decided to test and compare these techniques. For options 2. and 3. I used this document:
Let’s look at the results of this and the code that is behind each resulting page… Continue reading
Restrict or Permit formatting changes in Word Documents
Word 2007 lets you restrict the styles and formatting people can use in documents based on a particular template. I suspect that this will be useful for me in restricting the styles used in SharePoint’s Rich Client Authoring (aka Smart Client Authoring – I wish they’d pick a terminology).
Just as a quick example, though, you get do this through the manage styles dialog. To open this, open the styles menu from the ribbon, and select the manage styles option: Continue reading
