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Overview
 
Does your organization base a corporate document depository on Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server’s (MOSS) technologies?
Do you have to utilize multiple document formats in your internal work process or in your interaction with customers and partners?
 
Would you like to see an affordable and fast tool capable of converting or combining documents right in your SharePoint’s document library with high fidelity but without the use of Microsoft Word automation?
Aspose.Words for SharePoint is a unique solution supporting document conversion that makes it possible to convert and combine documents within the Microsoft SharePoint applications and support multiple document formats with high fidelity.
 
Multiple formats support
 
Having Aspose.Words for SharePoint installed you can convert documents right from your SharePoint document library between many popular office document formats and most of the conversions will be done with high fidelity.
 
Currently Aspose.Words for SharePoint supports the following input formats:
 
- DOCX – Office Open XML
- DOC - Microsoft Word 97 - 2003 Document
- RTF - Rich Text
- MHT - Web Page Archive
- XML - Microsoft Word 2003 WordprocessingML
- XML - Flat OPC
- ODT - OpenDocument
 
To generate documents, Aspose.Words for SharePoint relies on a built-in version of Aspose.Words for .NET, the market leading document-processing component from Aspose. DOC, OOXML, RTF and WordprocessingML copies of the same document will look identical to each other, thanks to the high degree of support for the underlying file formats, provided by Aspose.Words. Microsoft Word is not used to generate documents. The full list of output formats supported by Aspose.Words for SharePoint is below:
 
- PDF - Adobe Portable Document
- DOCX – Office Open XML
- DOC - Microsoft Word 97 - 2003 Document
- RTF - Rich Text
- MHT - Web Page Archive
- TXT - Plain Text
- XML - Microsoft Word 2003 WordprocessingML
- XML - Flat OPC
- ODT - OpenDocument
- EPUB - IDPF Digital Book
- XPS - XML Paper Specification
 
Workflow support
 
You can use Aspose.Words for SharePoint in SharePoint workflows. After installation, a new workflow action named “Convert via Aspose.Words” is available in SharePoint Designer. There you can utilize all the supported formats, setup the process by multiple options and use action output in subsequent actions to create workflows of almost any complexity.
 
Files concatenation
 
Any combination of input files in supported formats can be converted into single output document. You can take files from all the subfolders in the document library, choose desired ones, adjust concatenation sequence via simple UI and get resulting combined file just by several clicks.
 
Public API
 
If you develop your own SharePoint solution you can utilize our conversion engine via public API. This includes all supported file formats and conversion options.
 
Detailed interface specifications accompanied with dozens of C# and VB samples are available in our API Reference.
 
Easy Installation
 
Aspose.Words for SharePoint is downloadable as Aspose.Words.SharePoint.zip archive.
 
To install Aspose.Words for SharePoint:
 
- Unpack Aspose.Words.SharePoint zip to the local drive on the MOSS 7.0 or WSS 3.0 server.
- Run setup.exe and follow the instructions on the screen.
 
Once you are happy with your evaluation, you can purchase a license. Before purchasing make sure you understand and agree to the license subscription terms.
 
The license will be emailed to you after the order has been paid. The license is a .zip archive containing a regular SharePoint solution package.
 
World Class Free Technical Support
 
Aspose is renowned for its free and unlimited technical support provided directly by the developers of the products.
 
If there is a new version of a product available, or if resolving a question results in a fix in the product, all new releases are free