Parish wrote: > 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.
No, it doesn't. I checked the setup windows in explorer and file types still shows the proper selections for opening a doc file. Very strange...any ideas? > > 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. All word docs in mozilla, not dependent upon sender
