Office Version for Nav 5

ta5

Hi
What office version is needed to use the new functions "send to excel", etc. from within Nav 5?

We have Office 2003 but get an automation error.

Thanks in advance
Thomas

Marije_Brummel

If I remember correctly it requires XML 6.

(Waldo told me). :-$

ta5

I think the installation with office 2003 is scrap.

So I'm trying on a office 2000 installation. I have installed msxml6, but I have the following issue:

I just get the xml File, but word and excel are not able to open it then (they open it as a textfile).

Regards
Thomas

kine

I assume that you need at least MS Office 2003. Older versions do not understand the XML documents. And I am not sure if you do not need the Office 2007 compatibility addon for the Office 2003...

Phenno

kine wrote:

I assume that you need at least MS Office 2003. Older versions do not understand the XML documents. And I am not sure if you do not need the Office 2007 compatibility addon for the Office 2003...

For XML-like files, you do need. If you want to open xml-like file in 2003. On my test Vista & NAV5 I had to install XML6 to be able to export to Word (but I think it was Word 2007 already)

Phenno

Phenno wrote:

kine wrote:

I assume that you need at least MS Office 2003. Older versions do not understand the XML documents. And I am not sure if you do not need the Office 2007 compatibility addon for the Office 2003...

For XML-like files, you do need. If you want to open xml-like file in 2003. On my test Vista & NAV5 I had to install XML6 to be able to export to Word (but I think it was Word 2007 already)

Oooor 2003... I forgot :oops:

Bromann

According to the official channels Office 2003 and 2007 are supported for the Export to Word/Excel feature in NAV 5.0 - as you would see when a document opened up (- if it was working for you ) it opens in 2003 compatibility mode . . . .

ta5

Thanks all for your postings.
It now runs on a Office 2007 system.

Bromann

What do you think of this new funtionality?

ta5

Great for demos, the customers seem to like it.

kine

Yes, great for selling, worse for modifying, but I hope it will be changed in short time... with some tool to change the templates...

Marije_Brummel

kine wrote:

Yes, great for selling, worse for modifying, but I hope it will be changed in short time... with some tool to change the templates...

It is in development and should be released shortly, we had a beta demo at TechEd

kine

I know...