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Icons in Datasheet view for lists in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 are not displayed correctly when you have Microsoft Office 2003 Client installed.

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Article ID: 2161806 - Last Review: August 17, 2010 - Revision: 6.0

Icons in Datasheet view for lists in SharePoint are not displayed correctly when you have Microsoft Office 2003 Client installed.

SUMMARY

Consider the following scenario.

·         You have Microsoft Office 2003 with Service Pack 3 and the Windows SharePoint Services Support installed on a Windows machine.
·         You open a SharePoint list in Datasheet View, the Icons for Folder and Items are not rendered.

MORE INFORMATION

This issue is a design limitation for integration between Microsoft Office 2003 and SharePoint, and is only present for List's Datasheet view.
As a consequence, you cannot browse the folders from this view. 

If you open a Document Library in Datasheet View, the Icons are rendered correctly.
If you open a List in Datasheet View with Microsoft Office 2007 the Icons are rendered correctly.

Upgrade to Office 2007 or later in order to avoid this behavior with SharePoint.


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APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  • Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010
  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
Keywords: 
KB2161806
       

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