The Baretta

Have you recently upgraded to SharePoint 2013 but can't seem to open excel or word docs inside a Document Library? Are you getting a URL that starts something like this? ms-word:nft|u|  ms-excel:ofv|u| Chances are it's because you have both Office 2010 installed on your computer as well as either the full Office 2013 suite or any single Office 2013 product (Here's looking at you SharePoint Designer 2013!!!). The reason for this is related to the new Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Support feature that gets updated when you install an Office 2013 product, in turn updating a few pointers to look at the Office15 Hive folder. Others have solved this issue before me, but to save you having to read lots of comments, the solution is to install Office 2010 SP2 . Here's some links to a few blogs that helped me realise the cause and find the solution. http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectsupport/archive/2013/04/04/sharepoint-2013-problems-opening-documents-with-of...

If you're like me and needed to have quite a few tiles in your Promoted Links Web Part, this should come in handy. I've seen options to install custom solutions, and i've seen options to add a javascript file to the web part to force it to go to a new line. Custom solutions?  meh. Seperate 76kb javascript file?  meh. Use what you've been given my friends; and make it simple for your siblings to see how it works. It's not entirely a simple solution, but when completed I think it is the most elegant/clean solution.  Create two Promoted Links Web Parts underneath each other and use two separate Tile Views to display everything you need.  The only way I could find to create another Tile view was to use SharePoint Designer. Navigate to list in SharePoint Designer 2013 Create new view Copy CAML Query from original Tile View to new Tile view.  Copy This Bit (Make sure you keep the old view name, display name, url): <XmlDefinition><View Name=...