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Automatically add custom Excel Add-In to documents in sharepoint

We have a custom Excel Add-In, but when users open documents through SharePoint, the Add-In has to be readded each time they open Excel. How do we automate the Add-In being added?

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-04-28T09:04:27.83+00:00
LM 20 Reputation points
accepted 2025-05-02T07:47:49.6933333+00:00
LM 20 Reputation points
1 answer

I am unable to share documents via sharepoint anymore. I was yesterday but not today

I am unable to share documents via sharepoint anymore. I was yesterday but not today I am receiving a bounceback email titled "Your recipients couldn't be given access to the file. I am the owner and I have had success for many files previously…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-04-25T16:22:28.4633333+00:00
Aaron Price 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-05-01T16:26:50.87+00:00
Aaron Price 0 Reputation points
1 answer

Attaching Links to External SharePoint Sites in Microsoft Project for the Web

Is it possible to attach links to documents in a task's details in Microsoft Project for the Web that point to external SharePoint sites not associated with the group? Specifically, are there any issues with visibility or access to the documents when…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-04-24T18:08:01.82+00:00
Rose, Amy 40 Reputation points
edited an answer 2025-05-01T08:12:44.14+00:00
Hien-L 1,910 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer

How to highlight text in SharePoint

I am using Sharepoint Lists but there is no option for me to highlight text. Please walk me through if highlighting text is possible.

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-04-23T12:38:32.7566667+00:00
Ramsey 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-05-01T02:09:07.8633333+00:00
Hien-L 1,910 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
3 answers

How do I get document ID numbers to appear in a document footer?

I went through the instructions for inserting a document ID number into a footer, but when I tried to do that, the options listed in the instructions were not available on my computer. I want the doc ID number to automatically populate in documents.

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-04-28T18:01:21.69+00:00
Candy 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-04-29T18:04:41.26+00:00
Candy 0 Reputation points
1 answer

SharePoint Request Sign-off comments not displayed

I have tried to use the built-in "Request Sign-off" approval process. Unfortunately, the approver's comments do not appear in SharePoint. The comments appear in the email response but that is not useful. I would like to achieve the following...…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-04-25T02:25:05.73+00:00
Joshua Lance 56 Reputation points
commented 2025-04-28T23:57:05.64+00:00
Joshua Lance 56 Reputation points
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Why doesn't power automate update sso connections automatically?

I realize this is best asked in the power automate community but bizarrely that's down for 4 days - ...been having trouble lately with a Flow that's worked fine for years. The latest issue is a connection failure with this message: Error from token…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2024-07-17T14:02:34.6933333+00:00
matt howell 351 Reputation points
commented 2025-04-28T08:23:39.1266667+00:00
Harcharan Riyait 0 Reputation points
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How do I use Power automate to pull attachments from a Microsoft List Item and save them to a Document Library with the correct file format?

I have followed many tutorials to try to automate pulling attachments from a Microsoft List Item and then saving the file in a folder. I can get the automation workflow to work properly but the file it saves in the folder is unknown file type. Ideally I…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-04-24T21:39:23.1166667+00:00
Megan Grandall 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-04-25T08:02:41.64+00:00
Hien-L 1,910 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer

SharePoint - Folder Permissions and permission restriction

I created a SharePoint site and all normal groups were added Drive Members Drive Owners Drive Visitors Of course the folders inherits permission from its parent folder. My challenge is that I have several folders under the parent site some of…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-04-15T21:25:48.1133333+00:00
Intelatron 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-04-25T02:28:00.05+00:00
Vijay Soodeen 0 Reputation points
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Error AADSTS900144

I got the following error message while connecting to Teams Thank you Request Id: 210b6d2b-9720-4239-8835-283def872600 Correlation Id: 6d5b5e89-c758-45ba-8315-a61486dbcf27 Timestamp: 2025-04-24T08:48:07Z Message: AADSTS900144: The request body must…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-04-24T08:50:24.99+00:00
Laetitia Meunier 0 Reputation points
1 answer

Can you change the first sharepoint column to choice?

I need the first column in my SharePoint list to be a multiple choice column vs free text. is this possible?

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-04-14T19:56:50.5966667+00:00
Janet Czerwinski 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-04-23T03:08:43.6133333+00:00
Hien-L 1,910 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
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How to create a full SharePoint site backup (100K+ files, ~400GB) to another SharePoint site monthly?

Hi community, We are looking to implement a monthly full-site backup solution for one of our SharePoint Online sites. 🔹 Current Site Info: Files: 100,000+ Total Data Size: ~400 GB Structure: Includes folders, subfolders, and documents Accessed…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-04-21T05:44:24.81+00:00
Hari Om 0 Reputation points
1 answer

Context Menu changed for some users

Hello everyone, For the past few days, some of our colleagues have noticed that the context menu in SharePoint Online has changed. Important functions, such as "Request Signature," are no longer displayed as before, even though we have not made…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-04-04T10:05:07.6566667+00:00
Witschel, Lukas 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-04-10T09:42:04.3733333+00:00
Witschel, Lukas 0 Reputation points
0 answers

invalid_client AADSTS7000222: The provided client secret keys for app 'my_app_id' are expired. Visit the Azure portal to create new keys for your app: https://aka.ms/NewClientSecret, or consider using certificate credentials for

So i have a Sharepoint Integration in my Salesforce app, and i had the OAuth-Only Initialization URL working fine, until last week, i'm getting a server error with the message i provided above in the title. I found the app in my Azure environment but i…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-04-09T10:22:16.1466667+00:00
Mark Chibukhchyan 0 Reputation points
edited the question 2025-04-09T10:24:29.4633333+00:00
Mark Chibukhchyan 0 Reputation points
2 answers

Workflow was cancelled by System Account. Workflow failed to start

I am using SharePoint 2010 SPD workflow on SharePoint 2016. Today I noticed that any new workflows are failing to start. Existing workflows are working fine. Is there a known bug/issue which is causing this? Because a day ago some patches/updates were…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-03-24T07:20:13.99+00:00
Frank Martin 481 Reputation points
commented 2025-04-06T11:50:45.4433333+00:00
Frank Martin 481 Reputation points
0 answers

Sharepoint On Prem connection not persistent from full cloud device

Hello everyone Currently my company is running Sharepoint on prem. Whenever i go to sharepoint > library > connect and export > open with explorer This gives a windows security popup and asks for credentials. Also the same behaviour when i…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-04-04T13:41:26.02+00:00
Mathieu De Waele 0 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Chats on a SP Site

My department has asked me to create a SP site for them. Part of their request is having our Teams chat on the homepage of the SP site. I know there's a widget for a Viva Engage conversation to be added (though I've never done this before), but is there…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-03-26T14:12:59.86+00:00
Leanna Ross 40 Reputation points
accepted 2025-03-31T14:15:39.24+00:00
Leanna Ross 40 Reputation points
1 answer

How to save SharePoint List images in multiple columns to SharePoint Folder.

I have a SharePoint list, and each item in the list has multiple image columns. Each item is generated from a form, where an image is saved to a specific image column. There are multiple columns, each potentially with 0 or 1 image. I want to save each…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-03-29T15:16:18.5+00:00
Colin W Otto 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-31T10:11:46.3366667+00:00
Ling Zhou_MSFT 23,605 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
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Can I edit an excel doc in excel while another person edits, without them seeing my scrolling and filtering?

I am editing an excel sheet at the same time as another user. When I scroll up to early cells the coworker working on newer cells gets messed up because the screen scrolls on their end. Is there some way around this?

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-03-28T16:09:38.0133333+00:00
Ormson, Kassi 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-31T02:39:19.3966667+00:00
AllenXu-MSFT 24,916 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
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Workflow Instance deleted without been cancelled

Hi, We are facing an issue where someone accidentally deleted a workflow without canceling it first, and it is now still running in the background with state = '2' (SQL server). The Nintex team has advised us to contact Microsoft Support. Since I am new…

SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint Workflow
SharePoint: A group of Microsoft Products and technologies used for sharing and managing content, knowledge, and applications.Workflow: An orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business activity, enabling data transformation, service provision, and information retrieval.
663 questions
asked 2025-03-17T14:57:15.4+00:00
JMA 20 Reputation points
commented 2025-03-28T09:48:36.4366667+00:00
Emily Du-MSFT 51,796 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff