Integrating Office Files

This feature integrates Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, and NeoOffice with the wikis. Users can use Micorsoft Office or OpenOffice to edit a wiki page. Users can also import or attach an Office document and convert the content into wiki format. Attached Office documents can also be edited directly from the wiki using an Office application. This feature supports:

• Text documents (.doc)
• Powerpoint presentations
• Excel spreadsheets

In order to use this feature you will need one of the following configurations:

Editing a Wiki Page in an Office Application

1. Choose the Wiki page you wish to edit.

2. Open the menu.
3. Select

4. A pop-up window will appear asking you to confirm that you wish to open the Wiki page in an Office application.

5. Click 'ok'. Your Office application will open with the content of the Wiki page as rich text.

6. To save your changes to the wiki, simply save the document.

Importing an Office Document into a Wiki Page

1. Choose which wiki page you want to import into.
2. Open the menu and select
3. Click or and find the document you want to import.
4. Click the button.

5. Once the document has been imported, it becomes a Wiki page and can be edited using Rich Text or Wiki Markup. This process is also used when importing spreadsheets or presentations.

Editing a (Powerpoint) Presentation

1. Open the presentation in the Wikis. You can do this several ways:

• Search for the presentation by file name, then click the 'View' link next to the presentation on the Search results page. 
• View the list of attachments for a specific Wiki page, then click the 'View' link next to the presentation on the Attachments page. 

2. Once you are viewing the presentation, click the button. It is located on the bottom left of the screen.

3. A pop-up window will appear asking you to confirm that you want to open the document. Click 'Ok'.

4. You will then be prompted to log into your Wiki. Login and click 'Ok'.

5. The presentation will open in your Office application. Any changes you make will be automatically be saved to your Wiki page when you save the presentation through the application.

Editing an Office Spreadsheet in Wikis

1. Open the spreadsheet in the Wikis. You can do this several ways:Search for the Office document by file name, then click the 'View' link next to the Office document on the Search results page. 

• Search for the spreadsheet by file name, then click the 'View' link next to the spreadsheet on the Search results page.
• View the list of attachments for a specific Wiki page, then click the 'View' link next to the spreadsheet on the Attachments page

2. Move your cursor to the top of the spreadsheet so that the hidden title appears (in this case the spreadsheet is titled spreadsheet.xls).

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3. A pop-up window will appear asking you to confirm that you want to open the document. Click 'Ok'

4. You will then be prompted to log into your Wiki. Login and click 'Ok'.

5.The spreadsheet will open in your Office application. Any changes you make will be automatically saved to your Wiki page when you save the presentation through the application.