Assigning unique Document Numbers or Document IDs to documents as they are saved to SharePoint is a frequent requirement for organizations that are looking to use SharePoint as their Document Management platform.   Actually generating the unique Document ID is only part of the requirement - the unique Document ID must also be displayed in documents that are opened from SharePoint into Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Typically the Document ID and other ke ...[Read More]

The MacroView Services team is currently undertaking projects to upgrade clients to Microsoft Office 2010. As well as that, the team has developed applications that work with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Recent projects include:   Microsoft Excel 2007 Chart and Table formatting for large professional services firm   We had previously done an Excel chart formatting add-in last year as part of a project to upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007. The client wanted to include nicely formatted t ...[Read More]

As organizations consider using Microsoft SharePoint to manage their documents they ask whether SharePoint can provide the features of 'traditional' document management systems, such as the ability to assign a unique Document ID to each document or file as it is saved.Unique Document Numbering is not provided by 'out-of-the-box' Microsoft SharePoint 2007, but it is available as a SharePoint add-on called MacroView Unique Document Numbering. MacroView UDN adds best-practice document numbering ...[Read More]

There are differences in the way Word 2003 and Word 2007 handle custom Document Properties, which can cause problems when you want to display Unique Document IDs in the footers of your Word documents. These issues are further complicated by the way Word 2007 lets you save a DOC as a 'DOCX in Compatibility Mode'. Consider this situation: You have a SharePoint document library that contains a document that was originally created in Word 2003 (a DOC file). That document library contains ...[Read More]