The document could not be opened for editing.
So… some users were getting the
The document could not be opened for editing. A Windows SharePoint Services compatible application could not be found to edit the document.
dialog box error message when trying to open a word document in document library using the “Edit in Microsoft Word” drop down command.
After some investigation it turned out that they had created a HUGE URL trail in side the document library by creating folders with really long special character laden names. The URL was around 300 characters long or some such nonsense. IE’s limit is around 2084 so its not IE, probably SharePoint or Word related limitation on URL length, or some special character interference.
I shortened all the directory names and took out some of the special characters and it seemed to clear up the problem.
Yup, same problem on my side. Once the file was renamed it fixed the problem. No special characters were in the file name just spaces and letters. Do you know if this has been fixed or will be fixed by Microsoft in SharePoint?
Comment by Michael Griffin — April 7, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
I have the same problem with Office 2007 and MOSS 2007 with long URLs.
Any idea if this has been fixed?
Comment by Angel — October 7, 2008 @ 7:29 pm
As far as I know, I havent seen a fix. I believe the problem exists in the Office Client software. I have patched them to the latest update, and still see the problem.
/shrug
Comment by Folly — October 8, 2008 @ 9:40 am