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Recent content by simonWMC2

  1. simonWMC2

    Open MS office documents in Office not the browser

    Thanks guys.... The only way i managed to get around it in the end was to instruct the users to use the shortcut menu to download the file. Thanks Tek-Tippers :)
  2. simonWMC2

    Launch MS Office documents in Office - not in the browser

    Hi Guys... I have a web page that lalinks to lots of word, excel, powerpoint and access files. Using a normal a href link makes the document open in the browser window. I tried using a javascript acticex to force the document to open in the office application, but due to security on our...
  3. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    Thanks guys... It is definatly a security setting on explorer. I am not allowed active x. However, I am now going to try in .asp...... Thanks to everyone for their help!
  4. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    Actually the error has changed... Now an error on var myApp = new ActiveXObject("Word.Application"); It says : Automation server can't create object
  5. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    Got excited for a moment....but no, :( Thanks for trying though...
  6. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    Hi... The doc is def there, cos if you ignore the javascript it opens the doc in explorer... Here is first half of source. The rest is just a big table... <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html...
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    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    The browser appears to do nothing. Either from the link or if you paste into the address bar. It does show an error Says it has an expected ] at character 15 of line 1. line one (on my page) is : <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"...
  8. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    They are on an intranet server... the full URL goes like this javascript:startWord(http://myServer/myFolder/myDocument.doc) Hope that makes sense ? Simon
  9. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    I put the code above into the head of a simple HTML page with several links to MS Office files. I want the files to open in the Office application (ie Word or Excel, ect). With normal href links they open in internet explorer window, not in thew application itself. Although I do understand it...
  10. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    Yes thank you. Trouble is I need to do it from the web page. I can't mess with the client machines :( Thank you very much for your help though! :)
  11. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    Thanks. Trouble is if you do that, it opens it in the browser. I want it to open actually in word. Thanks Simon
  12. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    (Sorry, i posted this in the wrong forum, so copied it here now - I am a numpty!) Hi guys... I have buit a web page that needs to link to a number of word, excel, powerpoint and access files. I want the links to open the files in the full applications rather than the web browser (ie6). I...
  13. simonWMC2

    Open MS office documents in Office not the browser

    Hi guys... I have buit a web page that needs to link to a number of word, excel, powerpoint and access files. I want the links to open the files in the full applications rather than the web browser (ie6). I have tried <script language="JavaScript"> function startWord(strFile) { var...
  14. simonWMC2

    Importing screen dump as graphic

    sorry - i meant to say YES the dimension is the same. The image is still poor quality....
  15. simonWMC2

    Importing screen dump as graphic

    I don't think so, no. If edit in fireworks, it says it is the same size. However - the quality when viewed in fireworks is good, but in flash it is poor....
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