Friday 4 November 2011

How to get Excel and Powerpoint Button under New Button in SharePoint Document Library

 


Best you can do this at your top level site (=Site Collection to modify it on all subsites).
  1. Go to Settings > Document Library Settings > Advanced Settings
  2. Set "Allow management of content types" to Yes
  3. Go back to the Document Library Settings
  4. Add a new content type by
  5. Site Actions > Site Settings > Galleries > Site Content Types
  6. Create new content type as in the following image
 
  1. Go to Settings > Document Library Settings
  2. In the section Content types select: "Add from existing site content types"
  3. Select your Excel Site Content Type (which you just created)
  4. Modify the URL of an existing document template by:
  5. Site Settings > Site Content Type > Advanced Settings of the new content type
  6. Create an empty excel and powerpoint file on your desktop.
  7. Give this files the names: template.xls and tempate.ppt
  8. Upload a new document template:
  9. Select template.xls or .ppt (depending the content type you’re creating).
Do the same for powerpoint. Your document library new settings would look like:

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