Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Support for Earlier Versions of Office with SharePoint 2010

Microsoft has greatly enhanced the functionality and tools offered in SharePoint 2010, and it makes sense that the latest version of Office will provide the best level of integration with SharePoint 2010. This said, numerous organizations still use older versions of the Office products. This chapter provides examples of select Office 2007 product integration with SharePoint 2010 for reference purposes, but won’t go further backward to older versions of the Office products (such as Office 2003, Office 2000, or XP) because of space limitations. And in keeping with its general practices, Microsoft offers a high level of support for the earlier version of Office, Office 2007. This level ...