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Read & Write MS Office custom properties with PowerShell

While working on automating Microsoft Word I needed to read and write custom properties in documents. I found several resources out there. Reading worked fine, but when writing custom properties they all crashed. I finally managed to fix it though, … Continue reading

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If Word randomly crashes when opening SharePoint documents

I’ve been working on a PowerShell script that automates Microsoft Word to open all files in a SharePoint library, modify the header and other properties and then save it again. I ran the script against 4000 documents and everything went … Continue reading

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Hacking DocX files to fix Quick Parts in Word Online

Microsoft Word documents can have Quick Parts connected to SharePoint fields, so that the value of the field is displayed inside the document. But Word Online (still) does not fully support this. It will display Quick Parts with a a … Continue reading

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Downloading OneDrive documents as PDF

As part of automating a build process I needed a way to download the product documentation from OneDrive and save as PDF files for shipping with product. The result is this PowerShell script with two cmdlets, one that takes an … Continue reading

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