Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Converting office documents into a web page in SharePoint

While working on SharePoint I was looking a facility to see the uploaded documents as a web page. Then the users does not require a sophisticated office system only to view the documents.


Steps:


1) Go to Central Administration - > Operations - > Services on the Server page.

  • "Document Conversions Launcher Service"
  • "Document Conversions Load Balancer Service" should be Started.





2) Central Administration -> Application Management -> Document Conversation




3) Select the site where you want to use the Document Conversion service and Click on OK.
Please note that, this service only works on a "Publishing Site".




4) Now, go back to your site where the Document Conversion service is enabled. Hover on a document, then select "Convert Document" next, "From Word Document to Web Page". 




5) Specify the Title and URL




6) Following page shows if any errors/warning occurs at the time of conversion.




7) View the document as a web page






Limitation:

  • This service only works in a Publishing Site
  • Converts only Office 2007 documents, does not support .doc files
  • Sometimes images does not show properly on the web page.
  • Does not work if MOSS is installed on a Domain Controller.

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