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While I’ve been generally happy with IE8. However, the IE8 Datasheet View issues are really annoying – the datasheet view is really useful for bulk data entry/edits and I do use it almost every day.
Up till recently I’ve been running IE8 on my desktop but I’ve kept one of my servers running IE7 just so I can connect to it and use the datasheet view when needed.
What I only realised yesterday is that the IE Tab Firefox extension seems to be using an IE7 engine to render pages in Firefox.
What it means is I can open a list in Firefox and use datasheet view with all pre-IE8 features. Perfect!!
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[...] issues in Sharepoint You can use datasheet view with Firefox and IE Tab – check my post: http://sharepointapplied.wordpress.c…ue-workaround/ Regards, Greg [...]
I wonder why that doesn’t work for me here in Win7?
Hi
If you use the compatibility mode button (broken sheet of paper icon between to your address bar and go button) this works instantly reloading the page in IE7 mode and therefore datasheets all perfectly working
That definitely didn’t work before, but perhaps one of the compatibility updates to IE modified its behavior.
In any case, the problem should have been fixed with WSS3 SP2.