Comments on: Microsoft SharePoint Wiki Syntax cheat sheet

By: Deepa

Deepa — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:00:12 +0000

Hi, I am creating a new Sharepoint online wiki page. Can any one guide, how to attach/embed pptx, docx, and xlsx files to Sharepoint online wiki page?

By: Vasily Ingogly

Vasily Ingogly — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:54:34 +0000

Agree with those who suggest implementing wikitext markup … I’ve just migrated a large MediaWiki site to SP2010, and the users are appalled that they can’t use the markup they’ve grown to know and love. Come on, MS; if you’re going to call it a wiki, make it WORK like a wiki … you can provide WYSIWYG vs. wikitext as an option when a wiki library is created. It’s really inexcusable that MS doesn’t have a solution to this other than “it’s too hard for our users so we chose the easy way out” which is both a cop-out and an insult to SP2010′s user community.

By: zach

zach — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:41:04 +0000

oh dear, i had high hopes for the wiki feature because my organisation recently implemented Sharepoint.

By: Sebastien De Ron

Sebastien De Ron — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:14:42 +0000

HTML tags seems to work.

By: Duncan Bayne

Duncan Bayne — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:55:29 +0000

I actually found this post while Googling for MOSS wiki syntax.

I am suffering through the use of the SharePoint ‘wiki’ at a contracting gig … my (100% serious) advice to MS is to rename this subset of functionality offered by SharePoint.

It’s not a wiki, whatever it is … how about ‘live pages’ or something like that?

You’re setting the bar waaaay too high by calling it a wiki and then delivering psuedo-WYSIWYG crap that only seems to work properly on IE.

By: Martin Andersson

Martin Andersson — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:45:30 +0000

If you need a link to an external page, simply write:
file://C:\folder\filename.pdf
where:
C: should be replaced with your drive
folder is the folder(s)where the file is placed
and filename.pdf is the full filename of your file including extension.

The link works but is ugly on the wiki page because it shows the whole path.

By: Brianary

Brianary — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:29:58 +0000

WYSIWYG is impossible/dead on the web. Do you really think it’ll look the same for everyone? It doesn’t. What’s the “M” in “HTML” for? Markup. The web is for WYSIWYM.

SharePoint’s “Wiki” is just FrontPage *again*. And that’s fine, if your goal is dead-simple (though powerless) MS Write-style editing for people that think that Wiki or Markdown (et al.) syntax just isn’t fonty enough. But don’t call it a Wiki, because that’s not what that name means.

It’d be nice if SharePoint offered both approaches, frankly. That way, the WYSIWYG crowd can have their giant, blinky red curly text, and people not panicked by apostrophes can get tables of contents, section editing, templates, reference/biliography links, mouseless (faster) editing (even for bulleted lists and tables), HTML entities (Start → Run…), headings, semantic tags, and more.

Also: Underline? Really? Underlining text on the web that isn’t a link just makes your readers want to punch you.

Finally: Stripping out my semantic tags entered via “Edit HTML Source”? Infuriating!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:11:53 +0000

While this page is sarcastic, it is also the most comprehensive and useful Sharepoint Wiki documentation out there. Great job!

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:46:19 +0000

All well and good, but the idea of a wiki is that ”’anyone”’ can contribute and edit…so a wysiwyg editor is better for the vast majority of users, and the one in SharePoint 2010 is familiar and therefore good.

wiki-markup is still coding, however simple it is. So I’ll help you with your feature list:

Ctrl-B for Bold
Ctrl-I for Italic
Ctrl-U for Underlined
Ctrl-L for Left-align
Ctrl-E for Centered
Ctrl-R for Right-aligned
Ctrl-K for link to a SharePoint item etc…

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 02:27:09 +0000

Forgot to add:
- Templates