Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment?
Hi Martin, You should be able to link to Excel and Word documents from Org by prefixing the normal path with file+sys: instead of just file. This doesn't work when the files are on a Windows Share (at least for me), though. I'm also interested in getting a robust connection between Org and Outlook so I will be paying attention to this thread with earnest. Best Regards, Kyle On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:06 PM, M elwood...@web.de wrote: I'm using Emacs org-mode for task and information management in a business environment dominated by Microsoft products (Windows, Office, ...). I wonder how to create a set-up for maximum productivity and I'd like to know how you integrate org-mode in your work on MS Windows. Creating hyperlinks in my org-mode files/tasks, which let me jump directly to E-Mail in MS Outlook (Exchange-based), open Word-, Excel- or Powerpoint documents, etc. is a very helpful feature for integrating org-mode. Are there other techniques, tools or add-ons which are helpful for that purpose? Kind regards Martin
Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment?
On the viewing front, doc-view can be used to view OpenDocument files right within Emacs. From the manual, , | 35 Document Viewing | *** | | DocView mode is a major mode for viewing DVI, PostScript (PS), PDF, | OpenDocument, and Microsoft Office documents. It provides features ^^ ^^ | such as slicing, zooming, and searching inside documents. It works by | converting the document to a set of images using the `gs' (GhostScript) | command and other external tools (1), and displaying those images. ` The viewer uses unoconv as the default converter. There were some issues that I identified while using LibreOffice as converter. It is possible that pdf file generated by the two converters differ in a subtle way. --
Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment?
maybe the information there is useful: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OrgOutlook Alfred
Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment?
Hi: There have been a list of good suggestions of integrating org-mode with MS products. I personally use org-mode primarily for task tracking rather than document generation. I use the following combination of tools and techniques: 1. I get tickets assign for review on JIRA. I capture those using jira.el . Yes, I am aware that there is a jira-org tool, but I'm used to jira.el. I get a list of tickets, highlight any new ones and store them in remember mode for inclusion into my task file. 2. I do use gnus with IMAP in which I use davmail as the conduit. If you are lucky to have exchange enabled with IMAP, then you do not need to do this. In my workplace, that's not the case. The issue of using davmail is that you get constrained to use emacs 22 being that version of gnus that is shipped in emacs 23 does not play well with davmail. I have not tried it with emacs 24. This is mostly for emails and capture any new tasks or ideas that warrant to be stored for tracking. 3. I do not normally store appointments in org-mode. I rather have my phone nagging me when a meeting is coming up. I use the weekly agenda to track deadlines. Using HTML for export is a good way to transfer content as has been suggested. In my personal case, most of my documentation stored in org-mode are meeting notes, I really do not have a need to transfer to Word being that these are for my use. -- Luis Anaya papo anaya aroba hot mail punto com Do not use 100 words if you can say it in 10 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment?
Da: M elwood...@web.de Inviato: Giovedì 12 Luglio 2012 23:06 I'd like to know how you integrate org-mode in your work on MS Windows. Hi Martin, I use Org in a Windows 7 environment too. Regarding he interaction with collegues, (as Russel have already suggested) I write my reports in Org, then export to HTML with the proper stilesheet and then open in word for the last editing. If I had installed LibreOffice my life'd have been a lot easier (hint, hint ;) In Org I can open dired link to pdf files (clicking o them), but I haven't yet managed to open links to word and excel files. In my home directory I have a .mailcap file: - application/pdf; C:/Program Files (x86)/Adobe/Reader 10.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe %s a plic tion/w rd; C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Office/Office12/win ord.exe %s - DOES NOT WORK and certain letters are missing. -- Like Mikhail pointed out dired is really useful and I use Dired extensively; it can also resolve addresses through the Intranet evaluating expressions like: (dired-at-point //Server1/everybody/my-dir) I also open the files with the appropriate program (excel, word, reader..) in the Dired buffer pressing F3, having the following code in my .emacs: ;; Dired ;= (setq delete-by-moving-to-trash t) ;;; Open files with i.e. ; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2284319/opening-files-with-default-windows-application-from-within-emacs (defun w32-browser (doc) (w32-shell-execute 1 doc)) (eval-after-load dired '(define-key dired-mode-map [f3] (lambda () (interactive) (w32-browser (dired-replace-in-string / \\ (dired-get-filename)) cheers, Giovanni
Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment?
Hi Martin, M elwood...@web.de writes: One example of helpful integration: if I send or get an e-mail which I want to follow-up on later, I want to track that in org-mode and I want to have a way to quickly find the original message in Outlook again (to reply or forward it or whatever), which can be done with hyperlinks. You can simplify making links to your email messages by creating a custom link abbreviation assuming there is some uniquely identifying chunk of the URL to use as a key. Here are examples using google search and maps: ;; in .emacs (setq org-link-abbrev-alist '( (google . http://www.google.com/search?q=;) (gmap . http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s;) )) Example org markup: [[google:org-mode][org-mode on google]] -Brett. pgpDDe58dMKmx.pgp Description: PGP signature
[O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment?
I'm using Emacs org-mode for task and information management in a business environment dominated by Microsoft products (Windows, Office, ...). I wonder how to create a set-up for maximum productivity and I'd like to know how you integrate org-mode in your work on MS Windows. Creating hyperlinks in my org-mode files/tasks, which let me jump directly to E-Mail in MS Outlook (Exchange-based), open Word-, Excel- or Powerpoint documents, etc. is a very helpful feature for integrating org-mode. Are there other techniques, tools or add-ons which are helpful for that purpose? Kind regards Martin
Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:06 PM, M elwood...@web.de wrote: I'm using Emacs org-mode for task and information management in a business environment dominated by Microsoft products (Windows, Office, ...). I wonder how to create a set-up for maximum productivity and I'd like to know how you integrate org-mode in your work on MS Windows. Creating hyperlinks in my org-mode files/tasks, which let me jump directly to E-Mail in MS Outlook (Exchange-based), open Word-, Excel- or Powerpoint documents, etc. is a very helpful feature for integrating org-mode. Are there other techniques, tools or add-ons which are helpful for that purpose? My personal technique is to let everyone /else/ use MS and to use org-mode as exclusively as I can. My management is fully used to me providing PDF Beamer presentations at project update meetings while everyone else has submitted PowerPoints. I can submit reports as a file upload to our central research document center, so I compose in org-mode, and then tweak/final-export in LaTeX. I made a project poster using beamerposter.sty once as well and it turned out well, though I think it took more time than if I had just used PowerPoint. I only use MS where I have to -- editing a team member's ppt slide for a larger presentation that multiple folks are contributing to. I have issues every once in a while with someone wanting to re-use my presentation material and obviously an org-file or the raw PDF wont' do them much good. Sometimes I've tried to re-package in ppt or sometimes I just say, I'll send you my presentation, but the format I have it in won't do you much good. I use a program that works awesome for me, but no one really uses it. In essence... I can share my data and information quite well without having to use MS Office. I happen to work in an environment where folks are usually interested in raw data (I can provide the same .csv or .xls export from LibreOffice that I use myself) or read only reference material. There's not a ton of collaborative document editing going on. Anyway, I was worried about this as well. I found that making it known I prefer to use fringe software because it's awesome and makes me more efficient has helped people just get used to that fact ;) John Kind regards Martin
Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment?
Von: John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com Datum: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:16:34 -0500 An: M elwood...@web.de Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Betreff: Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment? On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:06 PM, M elwood...@web.de wrote: I'm using Emacs org-mode for task and information management in a business environment dominated by Microsoft products (Windows, Office, ...). I wonder how to create a set-up for maximum productivity and I'd like to know how you integrate org-mode in your work on MS Windows. Creating hyperlinks in my org-mode files/tasks, which let me jump directly to E-Mail in MS Outlook (Exchange-based), open Word-, Excel- or Powerpoint documents, etc. is a very helpful feature for integrating org-mode. Are there other techniques, tools or add-ons which are helpful for that purpose? My personal technique is to let everyone /else/ use MS and to use org-mode as exclusively as I can. My management is fully used to me providing PDF Beamer presentations at project update meetings while everyone else has submitted PowerPoints. I can submit reports as a file upload to our central research document center, so I compose in org-mode, and then tweak/final-export in LaTeX. Hi John, thanks for your detailed answer! Well, a large part of my work is sharing and editing Office documents together with other people and as meetings are planned with MS Outlook/MS Exchange etc, I can not avoid using MS Outlook and MS Office and it is not sufficient to distribute PDF documents. So unfortunately I'll have to find a way to integrate as good as possible. (I had tried to use MS Outlook 2007 for managing tasks for some weeks but I was missing a lot of features I got used to from org-mode, so I installed org-mode. One example of helpful integration: if I send or get an e-mail which I want to follow-up on later, I want to track that in org-mode and I want to have a way to quickly find the original message in Outlook again (to reply or forward it or whatever), which can be done with hyperlinks. I'm sure there are a lot more useful tricks which can help in daily work, e. g. a vba macro which copies the path to the currently open word or excel document into the clipboard or even directly opens org-capture to add some note or task which is linked to this document... So I'm hoping to get in contact with people with the same problems or solutions to them. :-) Kind regards Martin
Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 04:16:34PM -0500, John Hendy wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:06 PM, M elwood...@web.de wrote: My personal technique is to let everyone /else/ use MS and to use org-mode as exclusively as I can. My management is fully used to me providing PDF Beamer presentations at project update meetings while everyone else has submitted PowerPoints. I can submit reports as a file upload to our central research document center, so I compose in org-mode, and then tweak/final-export in LaTeX. I often will write technical documentation in Org, and export it to HTML. MS Word users can import it and immediately apply a company template, while the HTML preserves much of the formatting. Looks quite good in the end. Obviously it's a one way process though, I don't receive Word documents. Thanks. -- Russell Adamsrlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3
Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 05:04:23PM -0500, Russell Adams wrote:
I often will write technical documentation in Org, and export it to
HTML. MS Word users can import it and immediately apply a company
template, while the HTML preserves much of the formatting. Looks quite
good in the end.
Another quick useful tip for Org publishing:
I do have to use Visio for making technical drawings, which are
frequently a full page. I export from Visio directly to PDF using the
built in publish method. When I compiled Org to PDF via Latex, I found
that if I include the pdfpages package which I believe is included
in texlive, I can insert the full Visio PDF page into the final output
without having my normal headers and footers or disrupting the
document.
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{pdfpages}
\includepdf[angle=90]{./diagram.pdf}
Good luck!
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Re: [O] How to integrate org-mode in a MS Windows-/Office-based environment?
M elwood...@web.de writes: So unfortunately I'll have to find a way to integrate as good as possible. (I had tried to use MS Outlook 2007 for managing tasks for some weeks but I was missing a lot of features I got used to from org-mode, so I installed org-mode. One example of helpful integration: if I send or get an e-mail which I want to follow-up on later, I want to track that in org-mode and I want to have a way to quickly find the original message in Outlook again (to reply or forward it or whatever), which can be done with hyperlinks. You can set up Gnus if Exchange server is available via IMAP otherwise see Q 3.10 [1]. With Gnus you can easily insert links right to your e-mail. Indeed the ability to bookmark an e-mail is something I would miss without Org mode. [1] http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_397.html#SEC446 I'm sure there are a lot more useful tricks which can help in daily work, e. g. a vba macro which copies the path to the currently open word or excel document into the clipboard or even directly opens org-capture to add some note or task which is linked to this document... You can use dired to navigate to your word document in the first place and make a link using dired. -- Mikhail
