Monthly Archives: March 2008

Free up Database space after deleting documents

Posted on March 28, 2008 by calvin998

In a Document Library of SharePoint 2007, deleted documents will be put on Recycle Bin first (this is the default setting). SharePoint Recycle Bin works similarly to Windows one – user has their own recycle bin and one can not … Continue reading →

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IE crashes when opening office document from SharePoint

Posted on March 20, 2008 by calvin998

Suddenly, my IE crashes when I open any Office document from SharePoint document library. It turned out to be a component in Office 2007 causing this, even I only have SharePoint Designer installed. Microsoft has a fix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938888. It worked.

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Send To->Email a Link doesn’t work

Posted on March 12, 2008 by calvin998

In SharePoint 2007’s Document library, the Send To->Email a Link context menu will open your local email client and put the link of that document in the email body. However, it seems URL encode the whole URL, instead of just … Continue reading →

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Menu not found? Here are direct links…

Posted on March 11, 2008 by calvin998

Depends on what site template you use to create your site, some menus appear in one site but not on another. Here are some links that you can type in directly after the site/sub-site root to get that function: Save … Continue reading →

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