Posted by harry on 11/01/05 16:38

Using IE 5.5 (sp3) on win 2000 (sp4) with Office 2002 professional - no
other browser is required i.e. Intranet app!

I have the following HTML -

<a target="_blank" href="http://localhost:8001/MyWeb/y.doc" >
<img border="0" alt="Show page help" src="images/buttons/help.gif"
style="cursor:hand">
</a>

I want the Word document to open in a new window with the Word Viewer
showing the document formatted correctly however all it does is display the
DOC file as is i.e. gibberish.

I know this can work as I've seen it on other systems whereby the DOC or XLS
file is displayed inline in the Browser window!

I'm guessing this has something to do with the MIME type note being set? but
have no idea how to set it? is it in IE settings or what?

Can anyone help? this has completely baffled me!

thanks

harry

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