Onenote Sharepoint Datasheet conflict

[Dan Smith]

I am running Office 2003 Professional - I do a lot of work in Sharepoint
using Datasheets. I installed Onenote Beta and I like it very much.
However, when it installs it does something that disables the ability to see
Datasheets in Sharepoint. Using the original CD-ROM for Office repairs it,
but then OneNote wants to reinstall again and thereby disables Sharepoint. I
assume when I move to Office 2007 this gets fixed, but is there a workaround
for now?

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

I hate to say it, but my opinion is that OneNote doesn't work and play well
with SharePoint. However, I haven't seen this particular problem. Are you
saying that if you just open OneNote while working with SharePoint it
disables the datasheets? I haven't seen that particular problem, but that
doesn't mean it isn't here.

I can't answer whether it is fixed in the RTM, since (as far as I know) no
one has the RTM of SharePoint yet.

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[Dan Smith]

Thank you for the response. OneNote disables Datasheets upon installation.
If you then repair Office 2003, they work again. Then, if you close OneNote
and restart it, it reinstalls and disables datasheets. May be messing with
ActiveX or the a registry entry needed by Office 2003 Professional to allow
Datasheets to run. I do not have the expertise to say. I would like to be
able to run them both.

OneNote Beta has functionality aimed directly at interaction with
Sharepoint, so someone ought to look into the whole relationship between the
two. Unless I miss my guess, Microsoft intends for Sharepoint to be a very
big deal. I absolutely recommend against trying to get OneNote to interact
with Sharepoint until further work is done. I could see a OneNote notebook
in a Sharepoint Document Library that was shared and alowed users to blog or
wiki on the project before them (Sharepoint 2007 will add blog and wiki
capabilites). Could be very useful. But Datasheets are a highly useful
feature of Sharepoint right now as, when built correctly, they allow people
to see and change metadata at a glance, which translates into real
productivity in managing projects. We use them constantly.

Thank you for your kindness.