Error in opening Office documents in client application in SharePoint

I was getting an error while opening word or excel documents stored in SharePoint libraries. When I was clicking on document title, instead of opening in client application, it was opening a browser windows with file url starting with ms-word:ofv|u| or ms-excel:ofv|u| etc where it was displayed, “The webpage cannot be displayed”.

ms-word:ofv|u|http://testsite.mydomain.com/sites/Corporate/IT/Reports/ecm%20training%20material.docx

I found the settings in document library for opening in client application were already set to “open in client application” but still error was coming.

 

I found that I am using Office 2010 however I have also Visio 2013 and Project 2013 installed on this machine. After some search, I found that there is a conflict in “Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Support” components when we use 2 different Office versions. In my case, I am using Office 2010 and Office 2013.

To resolve the issue, I went to “Uninstall or change a program” option in Control Panel and select Visio 2013 and click on Change Button.

In next window, I chose “Add or Remove Features” and clicked on Continue button.

In “Installation Options” screen, I clicked on “Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Support” and make it unavailable. I made sure that all components in this category were also unavailable.

Then, I clicked “Continue” and complete the process.

I repeated this process for Project 2013 and finally I repaired Office 2010 installation.

After completion of repair, everything was okay and I was able to open office files in client applications.

Hope it will help you.

Convert Word documents into PDF freely in Word 2010 and Word 2007

Document conversion from Word to PDF is a common requirement and for this I usually look for some professional software like Adobe Acrobat Professional but now Microsoft made my life easy and I can do this conversion easily without any cost.

Converting in Word 2010

In Office 2010 Suite, Microsoft also gave option to save your document as PDF or XPS. So there is nothing to do special. Just click on “Save” command and in “Save As” dialogue box, select PDF as save type. Select location and click Save button. Document will be saved as a PDF document.

Say, I have this document which I want to save as PDF

In Save As dialogue box, select PDF as save type.

or create PDF documents from Share option.

And resultant PDF document is

Converting in Word 2007

In Office 2007, there is no built-in option to save as PDF. To create PDF in Word 2007, I need a PDF printer. There are some freely available PDF printer at Microsoft Office Marketplace in “PDF Convertors” category. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/CE001017177.aspx. I tried several converters but now I prefer to go with “doPDF”. It is available for free download.

I downloaded it and installed it. For testing, I create the same document in Office 2007 and click on Save button. But there is no built-in option for PDF.

So, I click on Print button and select “doPDF” as my printer. It asks me where to save PDF document on disk and after few seconds it opens converted PDF document in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

 

And result was same as I converted in Word 2010 without any watermark or promotions.

Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Global Launch : May 12, 2010

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