Office Routing Plus FAQ:
- Q: Will Office Routing Plus (ORP) work in the next version of Office after 2007 (Office 2010)?
- A: Early internal tests and feedack from beta users of Office 2010 have shown Office Routing Plus to function without issue with Microsoft's newest version of Office. Because ORP does not use any built in API's to carry out routing functions or saving slip information, we do not anticipate any reason that ORP will not work in Office 2010 or even future Office releases beyond 2010.
- Q: Does the ORP Add-In work in Office 2003 or just in 2007?
- A: The ORP Add-In was designed to restore routing slip functionality in Word/Excel 2007, while allowing any remaining 2003 users to route documents to and from 2007 users via the ORP Add-In. 2007 users can also route documents to and from 2003 users. Read more about using Office Routing Plus in a Mixed Environment
- Q: How do I add a routing slip to a 2007 Word document with the ORP Add-In?
- A: Launch the ORP Add-In from within Word and click the "Add Recipients" button. After you have added the recipients to route to, click the "Add Slip" button. To route to the first recipient simply click the "Route to Next" button.
- Q: How do I add a routing slip to a 2007 Excel document with the ORP Add-In?
- A: Launch the ORP Add-In from within Excel and click the "Add Recipients" button. After you have added the recipients to route to, click the "Add Slip" button. To route to the first recipient simply click the "Route to Next" button.
- Q: Where will the ORP Add-In show in Word or Excel?
- A: In 2007, you will find ORP under the Add-Ins menu. In 2003 you will find a button for ORP on the left, slightly under the File menu.
- Q: How will the ORP Add-In know which users email addresses from my organization to show as potential recipients?
- A: Through connecting to your Active Directory schema. Learn more about Routing with Active Directory.
- Q: Does the ORP Add-In retain the "Return When Done" feature so that the routing initiator of the Word or Excel slip will receive the final version of the document as well as an email notifying him/her that the routing slip has completed?
- A: Yes, the "Return When Done" feature has been retained in the ORP Add-In. See all the Features of Office Routing Plus
- Q: Does the ORP Add-In retain the "Track Status" feature so that the routing initiatior of the Word or Excel slip will receive an email as each recipient in the routing tree sends to the next recipient?
- A: Yes, this feature has been retained in the ORP Add-In. More Features
- Q: Why does the ORP Add-In show in Outlook?
- A: The ORP Add-In may show in Outlook if you have purchased ORP for MS Word and if you use MS Word as your email editor for Outlook and if you are still using Office 2003. The ORP Add-In has been programmed so that you cannot actually launch it from Outlook--although the button may show.
- Q: How long did it take to develop the ORP Add-In? Is this something our developers could code ourselves?
- A: The ORP Add-In took about three months to code and test. While the coding of it is not terribly advanced it did involve a learning curve to program and deploy something that will work in Word and Excel in both 2003 and 2007 versions. Learning to deploy the Add-In, troubleshoot problems related to the Add-In not loading occasionally on machines and come up with a way to save routing information internal to the actual Office document without using the deprecated RoutingSlip object API was also somewhat involved. While most .NET programmers can figure out how to develop an Add-In, it should be noted that programmers who are familiar with VBA coding will not be able to just run a few VBA macro commands and build a true routing system in managed code. In short, if we could have bought something like the ORP Add-In, we would have preferred that over coding it in-house. Read about How Office Routing Plus Came to Be.
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