Use the Connections plug-in for Microsoft Office

Use this plug-in to share files and information between IBM Connections and Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

The following features from Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint):

• Features added to Word:

  • Add a document to Files or Communities

  • Attach a document to an Activity or Wiki page

  • Publish a document to a Blog entry
  • Search for content in Connections

• Additional Word features (Connections only):

  • Add someone's profile information into a document

  • Add a bookmark from IBM Connections into a document

  • Add a URL from a document as a bookmark in Connections

• Features added to PowerPoint:

  • Add a presentation to Files or Communities

  • Attach a presentation to an Activity or Wiki page
  • Search for content in Connections

• Features added to Excel:

  • Add a spreadsheet to Files or Communities

  • Attach a spreadsheet to an Activity or Wiki page
  • Search for content in Connections

• Add documents to Files
  Add Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to the Files application.

• Add documents to Communities
  Add Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to IBM Connections communities.

• Add documents to Activities
  Add Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to an activity.

• Add documents to Wikis
  Add Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents to a wiki. The document is added to a wiki page as an attachment.

• Add Word documents to Blogs
  Add Word documents to a blog. The document is added as a new blog post.

• Add profiles to Word documents
  Add people's IBM Connections profiles to Word documents.

• Add bookmarks to Word documents
  Add bookmarks to Word documents.

• Add bookmarks from Word documents
  Add bookmarks to IBM Connections or IBM SmartCloud from URLs in Word documents.

• Search from Office for Connections content
  Search for Connections content without leaving the Microsoft Office applications.

Parent topic:
Use the Connections Desktop Plug-ins for Windows