opening word attachments in outlook 2002

[tinito]

In Outlook, user opens attachment (say Word document). It asks "open
> or save", and has a tickbox to say "always ask...". So untick this -
> and it should not ask again. it does.

does anyone know as how i can prevent outlook from prompting again and simply just to open word docs without prompts?


thanks,
tinito

 

[fumei]

As a VERY serious recommendation...do not do this. In fact, opening Word documents from Outlook can cause such a major headache we no longer allow our users to do it. They must save the attachments. They can open them later, but can not open them directly from Outlook.



Gerry

 

[tinito]

thanks for the recommendation fumei,
but unfortunately i need a solution for this though.

anyone out there that can help with this?

 

[fumei]

What are your security settings? The reason Outlook does this, is that opening attachments can be bad. Actually, opening attachments IS bad. I am not sure (as we do not ever allow any attachments to be opened from inside Outlook - saved, then opened, yes - but not from within Outlook), but I believe if you have your security setting other than Low, Outlook will ask the question.

It would be possible to code it so that it opens without asking...but I don't think there is a setting to do it. Not unless security is Low. Could be wrong though.

Gerry

 

[tinito]

no worries fumei.

i have now resolved this issue.
there is a reg change that i have figured out.

here is the process:
Open regedit and expand the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT hive. Scroll down to
Word.RTF.8. You will probably have a DWORD value named EditFlags with the
value "0".

If you now open My computer from your desktop and then go to Tools\Folder
Options\File Types and scroll down to the RTF file format. Click the
advanced button and uncheck the "Confirm open after download" option. Click
"OK".

Go back to regedit and you will see what changes you need to make to have
this work (EditFlags and BrowserFlags).

Depending on what file types you need your users to be able to change, you
can give them the appropriate security permissions to the hive or the
specific keys (using regedt32). Alternatively you can roll-out the change to
the clients yourself

hope this helps, as it works for me.
users have to have local admin rights to make this reg change.

 

[fumei]

Ah, good one. I will store that one.

Gerry