So if you are one of few that are using IE11 and SharePoint 2013 you have probably noticed many corruptions and misbehaves in UI. So far I have discovered the following problems:
- Calendar web part is extremely corrupted
- You will click Settings > Edit Page, Pages will not enter edit mode.
- Web Part Properties cannot be modified.
So until we get official CU or SP from SharePoint team, run your sites in compatibility mode.
- Click Compatibility View Settings in Settings
- Click Add to add the current SharePoint site to your list.
Sharepoint Thing 
Thanks for the “Compatibility view” tip – same problems here, now solved 🙂
The site that my employer uses for us to enter timesheets is a SharePoint 2007 site. It is totally broken and will not load. The only way that it works is to turn on Compatibility Mode in IE 11 on Windows 7, fully patched. I always found it kind of odd that there seems to be little discussion between SharePoint (the flagship MS CMS) and IE (the flagship browser). Oh well. Regardless, I still like both IE and SharePoint, I just wish they would get along better. Thanks. — Mark Kamoski
I have Internet Explorer 11 and using MS SharePoint online. SharePoint crashed continuously. In my case the onmicrosoft.com was already in my compatibility view.
I just seem to have fixed it by actually removing the sharepoint site from my compatibility list.
Hi Geoffrey,
Take notice that sharepoint part of Office 365 is under sharepoint.com not onmicrosoft.com
The best way to get around the problem is just to use Chrome. 🙂 The whole thing about setting your SharePoint site in Compatibility View is just not practical for a company. The thing should just work. It’s really beyond me, why Microsoft doesn’t test for these things before releasing new software. Imagine a car company doing the same thing. “Ohh sorry mate, you can’t turn left, until we release an CU later in the year”.
I absolutely agree with you. In addition, MS considers SharePoint as important product that generates a lot of revenue.
Yes, Chrome is an alternative, but it inherently does not support functionality like Data Sheet View and Explorer View. Of course, that begs the question of Microsoft– why don’t THOSE features work in a modern browser like Chrome?
Yes. Exactly correct.. They need to think about it…
I agree. I just ran into this when we upgraded to IE11. Why would IE11 not work with SharePoint 2010 and 2013? you would thing Microsoft would play well with each other.
I installed Fiddler and then our SSRS library screen worked on IE11, uninstalled Fiddler and still works, so I don’t know what changed.
Thanks for the “Compatibility view” tip – Had problems with the Calendar WP….
There is an issue with an add-on, and other say that has to do either with Adobe Flash or Office 2013
More details:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/fc9b898b-2567-4edd-a123-968934eaf141/sharepoint-2013-crashing-repeatedly-in-ie-9?forum=ieitprocurrentver
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2013/11/12/november-2013-internet-explorer-updates.aspx
And for online presence indicators
However it did the trick for me when simply I started the IE11 with no add-ons….
Simply start>Run> “iexplore.exe -extoff” no quotes of course…
Thanks!!!!
Thank you, it solved my problem for now..
Thanks, do you know if if there is any patches available for this
Thank you for this post! I had issues editing pages. 🙂 Now solved.
Thanks, We have issues with Calendar and Editing Web Parts and we put our SharePoint Farm in Enterprise Mode (aka Compatiblity mode) and all is working now.
Hi Jon, How do you do to put your SharePoint Farm in Enterprise Mode ? Is it a setting ? Thx
Good tip, I spent about half an hour thinking I had broken edit mode in IE whilst developing a custom design for a client.
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Nice tip !
Thank you for this simple fix! Worked great for my calendar issue.