And it came to pass that Harry Krause wrote: > 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? > >
Either Word is no longer associated with DOC files, or Word is corrupted. Re-installing Word will fix either problem. Or you can right clikc a .doc file, select "open with", and check the "always use" box. This will re-associate doc files to Word. >> >> 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 > -- Netscape FAQs: http://www.ufaq.org Netscape 6/7 Tips: http://www.hmetzger.de/net6e.html Netscape 6 FAQ: http://home.adelphia.net/~sremick/ns6faq.html Netscape 7 Help/Tips: http://techaholic.net/ns7.html Web page validation: http://validator.w3.org About Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org
