Access Team site directly from Office

[JimBassett]

I have a WSS team site with a shared Word Document and have assigned some members to the site. All can access the site and open/edit the Word doc but they always have to access it from the site the first time rather than being able to broswe there driectly the first time from Word. Is this how it is suppose to work or do I have somethign setup incorrectly on the site or in Word?

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

Since noone answered this, I thought I would..Below are my thoughts on how this should be handled (might be better and other ways )

I would say that going to the site and open the documents is the Preferred way. From inside the office applications you can open files in sharepoint directly, but you will have to add a network place to the site and the document library.

I am always trying to get our users to actually go the to sharepoint site, instead of adding direct links to it through a network place, this means that a user can actually browse the document libraries from i.e windows explorer and things can be removed from there (I have had users that actually took away the Forms folder ni a document library this way, and that was not a good idea).

Also going to the site and use the check-out function when wanting to edit a document is Preferred, that will prevent the document(s) being edited by several persons at the same time and you will avoid conflicts when saving the documents.

Regards,
Thomas

 

[ouzojd]

I agree with Thomas, but if for whatever reason you need to do what you were asking for you can browse to the site, get the url without the default.aspx bit.

Then go to Word or Excel, choose save as, paste the URL as the file name and press enter, this will take you to the site. Now before you click on anything, from the save as dialog box, click tools and Add To My Places. It should show up on the side of your open and save boxes in office apps now.

Cheers,

Tim