On 08/10/2002 19:41 Harry Krause stood on a soap-box and preached to the
unwashed masses:
> Harry Krause wrote:
>> Parish wrote:
>>
>>> Harry Krause wrote:
>>>
>>>> How do I get Mozilla 1.2b (windoze) to open a Microsoft WORD email
>>>> attachment?
>>>>
>>>> Mozilla used to do this automatically - open a WORD file in WORD - if
>>>> I clicked on the attachment. No more.
>>>>
>>>> Any specific detailed instructions to make this happen again?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Helper Apps, click New Type..., fill in
>>> the fields. The MIME type is application/x-msword IIRC.
>>>
>>> Strange though, I don't have this in my Helper Apps but they still
>>> open in Word; Moz picks up the info from Windows I believe, so why has
>>> yours stopped I wonder?
>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>
>>
>> Danged if I know...
>>
>>
>
>
> Nope...tried your idea...did not work.
>
Hmm, does double-clicking a .DOC file in Explorer still fire up Word?
Sounds daft I know but, as I said, Moz picks this stuff up from Windows,
which explains why I don't have it in Helper Apps.
OK, I found an old e-mail with a Word doc attached. When I
double-clicked it the Downloading... dialogue popped up with "Open with
Word" as the default option. Clicking the Advanced button opened a *New*
Type dialogue. The MIME type BTW is application/msword, not x-msword,
which is maybe why it didn't work when you added it (the MIME type not
matching what the server served it as). Oh, I just thought, do you have
this problem with *all* Word docs or just from one sender? Check the
MIME-type in the header.
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