The Microsoft Sharepoint platform provides project teams with the capability of hosting documents to work on together. Converting Microsoft office documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) allows administrators to provide access to files for sharing and archiving. PDF files include text, fonts, graphics and hyperlinks. Create PDF versions of office documents such Word, Powerpoint or Excel files in Sharepoint folders by using Adobe Acrobat.
Convert Excel Documents to InfoPath In this demo, I am going to show how you can take an Excel file and convert that into an InfoPath form. The way I am going to do it is using the internal prebuilt converters that InfoPath provides us. So, let us look at a Excel file that I have, it is. Jul 28, 2010 In this series of posts we will be creating InfoPath form instance (XML) documents programmatically using the SharePoint object model. In contrast to other articles about this subject, we will extract the goo required directly from the InfoPath form XSN file itself, the correct InfoPath XSN file will be determined by the Content Type associated with.
Step 1
Establish your strategy for converting documents in your Sharepoint folders to the PDF file format. Opportunities to collaborate also present risks. For example, users might change content either inadvertently or without proper authority.
Step 2
From your Microsoft Sharepoint folder, change the view from All Documents to Explorer view.
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Use the Manage Permissions function to allow access to the source file.
Step 6
Use the Manage Permissions function to allow access to the PDF file. It is not necessary to create separate Sharepoint folders.
Instruct team members to use your PDF files, for example, in reviews. Your reviewers can read the documents, comment and return feedback without having access to the original source file.
Items you will need
- Microsoft Office 2007
- Adobe Acrobat
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