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ptc-34527581-Visitor
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July 9, 2014
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Windchill 10.1 and Office 2013

  • July 9, 2014
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Will M050 add support of office 2013? We will be upgrading office long before we upgrade to 10.2.

Thanks,

Wayne

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LoriSood23-Emerald I
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July 10, 2014

Per the Windchill Planned Future Support document (http://www.ptc.com/WCMS/files/69784/en/PTCWindchillFuturePlatformSupportSummary3414.pdf) Office 2013 is not planned to be supported with 10.1

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ptc-34527581-VisitorAuthor
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July 10, 2014

Thanks Lori, I have seen that document. I was hoping PTC would add support in future datecode releases for 10.1. It appears to already work with Office 2013 and as I think most of us know Office is updated much more often than Windchill. If PTC expects us to use Windchill for a document control tool they need to do a better job of incorporating newer versions into currently supported platforms. Many people stay on Windchill for many years while Office could update much more frequently.

Wayne

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DarrenStorey12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
July 10, 2014

As Lori states, DTI for Office 2013 is not supported with 10.1, however we do seem to be able to use it without issues so far with 10.1 M040. How much longer I will be saying that remains to be seen.

As Microsoft pedal their O365 licence in the cloud model, it means more and more people will be constantly using the very latest version of Office. If PTC continue to be months and years behind in terms of DTI support this potentially poses a problem. I would be interested to hear PTC's view on this issue.

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LoriSood23-Emerald I
23-Emerald I
July 10, 2014

Wayne, Darren,

I've forwarded this concern over to product management, and I'll keep you posted on what I find out.

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GaryMansell12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
July 14, 2014

Scott,

What about visualisation of Office 2013 docs in Windchill 10.1 - ie PDF publishing?

Will the publishing system be able to run the Office 2013 PDF conversion with Adobe Live Cycle and the Creo View Adapters - I suspect that there might be an issue with this.

We are currently still having to run Office 2010 on our Publishing worker for this reason. It seems to do an OK job of publishing 2013 docs that users upload to Windchill, but I would like to be able to run Office 2013 on the PDF worker if possible.

Interested to hear your thoughts on this...

Rgds

Gary

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