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Combining Cells or Columns of data in Excel
While working on a KnowledgeLake project on MOSS 2007, I had to create a site column for state. They wanted it to be a drop-down box with state abbreviation and name. I had two choices: Manually type in all fifty states with abbreviations. Find a list on the internet. Of course, I chose the second. I could not find a list that met my requirements: State Abbreviation-State Name. An example would be: AK-Alaska. Enter the & function in Excel, which combines the contents of several Excel cells into one. I found a list on the internet of two columns, abbreviations, and states. I then used the & function as described here to combine them. Then I pasted the result into my SharePoint site column box, and voila! … Read entire article »
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SharePoint (MOSS) Install Prerequisites
I was doing a MOSS install, and was running through the prereqs. All were there: Microsoft .NET 2, with service packs Microsoft .NET 3, with service packs IIS Installed, ASP.NET enabled in Application Server portion of Windows 2003 Components I then ran the MOSS setup and got this error: Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s): This product requires ASP.NET v2.0 to be set to ‘Allow’ in the list of Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server Extensions. If it is not available in the list, reinstall ASP.Net v2.0. Correct the issue(s) listed above and re-run setup. Well, with the help of this blog post, I was able to get it working. Here’s the deal: I believe the issue was that IIS (with ASP.NET support in Windows Components) was installed/enabled after the installation of .NET 2 … Read entire article »
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