Chapter 25. Using Office 2010 Applications with SharePoint 2010

This chapter examines key integration points between Office 2010 applications and SharePoint 2010, with a focus on using Word 2010, SharePoint Workspace 2010, and Outlook 2010 with SharePoint 2010 sites.

The intention of this chapter is to cover the topics of most interest to power users and administrators for several popular Office 2010 products, while also covering some of the enhancements available in these Office 2010 products.

Chapter 26, “Extending SharePoint 2010 with Excel Services, Access Services, and Visio Graphics Services,” covers integration points between Excel 2010, Access 2010, and Visio 2010 from the same point of view of interaction with SharePoint 2010 sites. Chapter 27, “Office Web Apps Integration with SharePoint 2010,” provides additional information on integration points between Office applications and SharePoint via the Office Web Apps feature.

Clearly, not all organizations will have adopted the new Office 2010 products, so this might be more informational than immediately practical, but by understanding some of the new features, organizations can better decide the pros and cons of upgrading to Office 2010 products.

A critical factor in adoption of SharePoint technologies is ease of use for end users, and a stumbling block for many end users is the process of saving documents to SharePoint document libraries. For this reason, this chapter covers several methods of adding shortcuts accessible from the Save As window. Methods are provided that will work for Windows 7 and Office 2010 users and for users of earlier versions of Office and earlier operating systems such as Vista.