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Embedding PDFs in SharePoint

August 20, 2010 — 44 Comments

This question cropped up a couple of times in the comments to the Adobe PDF Indexing blog post

How do you open a PDF in a web page on SharePoint?

Here is the method I use. There may be prettier and better ways to do it. If you know of one, please add a comment.

The short version:

  1. Take one Content Editor web part
  2. Enter <embed> tags containing the PDF fie as the source

The longer version…

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Configuring the ‘I need to…’ web part

August 25, 2009 — Leave a comment

When you create a site collection using the Collaboration Portal template in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you get an extra web part not available in any of the other templates. It’s called ‘I need to…’ and displays a list of options, starting with ‘Set up MySite’. It starts life on the home page of the top-level site in the site collection…

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SharePoint RSS Viewer web part

August 4, 2007 — 5 Comments

[Update: Sept 2010] – For a more detailed explanation about the authentication issue, visit ‘RSS Viewer web part and authenticated feeds‘ (MSDN blog) Same issue applies to SharePoint 2010 but access to settings has changed slightly – Central Admin – Security (in sidebar on the left) —– original post —– SharePoint Server 2007 includes an [...]

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