Posted by harry on 11/01/05 19:05

Thanks for replying, from a post I just made above -

found out part of the problem, by saving the DOC file in a previous Word
format it works but Excel files still refuse to display in the excel inline
viewer - just shows the binary contents of the file!

tried both your suggestions but no different, are you able to view Excel as
well as Word files in your Browser?

"Brian Cryer" <brianc@127.0.0.1.activesol.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "harry" <a@abc.com> wrote in message
> news:B5L9f.141991$G8.61533@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> > 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
>
> Does it work if you replace:
>
> href="http://...
>
> with
>
> href="file://...
>
> thats what we have on our local intranet. You could also try:
>
> href="//...
>
> but I'm not so sure about that one.
>
> Hope this helps.
> --
> Brian Cryer
> www.cryer.co.uk/brian
>
>

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