SharePoint with mac office

[graykieran]

Hi,

I have two versions of SharePoint running in my office, 2003 and 2007
beta. I have windows workstations and apple workstations. the windows
workstations work fine but on the apple ones I have Mac office x, when
I try and edit a document in a document library I get the 'you must
have a wss enable application' error message.

I understand that Mac office isn't compatible with wss but when I check
the document out of the document library and then open it in word (on
the Mac) it downloads a version to the desktop of the users computer
and the edits are saved to that, then when you check the doc back in it
just check back in the original document without the edits.

The only way I can see to get the edited version back into the document
library is to delete the original and reload the edited copy from the
user desktop.

Is there any way to actually edit a document in a SharePoint (2003 or
2007) document library on a Mac using ms office?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Works OK for me???

Check the document out, edit it on the Mac, check it back in to SharePoint.

I suspect you may have your SharePoint checkout local directory defined
incorrectly in SharePoint, or perhaps the user doesn't have rights to save
to the checked-out version.

It's not automatic the way it is on the PC, but there's nothing to stop a
Mac user from editing SharePoint documents.

Use the Help>Send Feedback link in one of the Office applications on the Mac
to let Microsoft know how you want it to work. Ideally, get each of your
Mac users to send in feedback on this issue.

Given that Microsoft is working on the next version of Mac Office as we
speak, now would be a really good time to let them know that you would like
the sharepoint interaction to work properly in the next version

Cheers

Hi,

I have two versions of SharePoint running in my office, 2003 and 2007
beta. I have windows workstations and apple workstations. the windows
workstations work fine but on the apple ones I have Mac office x, when
I try and edit a document in a document library I get the 'you must
have a wss enable application' error message.

I understand that Mac office isn't compatible with wss but when I check
the document out of the document library and then open it in word (on
the Mac) it downloads a version to the desktop of the users computer
and the edits are saved to that, then when you check the doc back in it
just check back in the original document without the edits.

The only way I can see to get the edited version back into the document
library is to delete the original and reload the edited copy from the
user desktop.

Is there any way to actually edit a document in a SharePoint (2003 or
2007) document library on a Mac using ms office?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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