Symptom
Some menu items like (Print Preview, Page break etc) are disabled when Word or excel document is opened inplace
Other Terms
Print Preview, Page break, Menu item Disabled, Inplace, Office Integration
Reason and Prerequisites
As per limitation from Microsoft if document is opened inplace some menu items will be disabled.
To check behaviour of microsoft when excel opened inplace do fillowing step : Open Word document, Go to Menu, "Insert"->"Object"->In list select "Microsoft Excel Worksheet" click ok.
Now one can observe "Print Preview" menu item is disabled. Also one can observe so many other menu items are also disabled like "Normal View", "Page break" etc.
To check behaviour of microsoft when word opened inplace, open Excel and insert MS Word object.
Same limitation is applied for documents which are opened through Office Integration also, since Office integration uses same OLE technology which is used by Microsoft.
Solution
Open document as outplace.
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