Ah yes, one of the more annoying 'features' of Windows. 1. Launch Windows Explorer. 2. Select "Folder Options..." from the Tools menu. 3. Select the "File Types" tab. 4. Scroll down the list of "Registered file types" until you find "DOC - Microsoft Word Document" and select it. 5. Click on the "Advanced..." button at the bottom of the dialog. 6. Uncheck the "Browse in same window" checkbox.
-----Original Message----- From: Wiley Jacobs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 3:19 PM To: Slide Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Best Practice? How do you open it in a separate instance of word from the ie link? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fallin, Jonathan A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Slide Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:00 AM Subject: RE: Best Practice? > Update! > > Turns out the registry setting mentioned in > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=867838 DOES work! The problem I > had when > I first tried it was the Word Document was opening inside IE. When > that happens, the doc is always read-only. However, if the Word > Document is opened in a separate instance of Word, then the Save > button magically appears. > > This works for Office XP when changing the registry for 10.0. Works > for Office 2003 when changing the registry for 11.0 > > Jonathan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fallin, Jonathan A. > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:35 AM > To: 'Slide Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: Best Practice? > > I too have been using the IE specific behavior style tag with > AnchorClick attribute to get around the disabled Save button problem > in Word and Excel. > For those not familiar with this issue here's the Knowledgebase > article explaining it. > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308138 > > I still believe that there is a magical registry setting or HTTP > header that > can be changed or added to get around this issue. Especially since > I've read elsewhere that the Save button is not disabled when opening > Word or Excel from a Sharepoint server (I believe Sharepoint uses > WebDAV protocol - > but I'm not certain) > > I came across this article that looked somewhat promising, but after playing > around with the registry this morning, I still am unable to resolve > the issue. > > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=867838 > > Look forward to seeing the *.LNK work around. > > Jonathan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wiley Jacobs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 12:23 AM > To: Slide Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Best Practice? > > Grant, this sounds like an interesting solutions, do you need to make > a network folder first or anything? Does it take any preconfiguation > or client > (other then default) on the windows side? If not, this looks like it > may be > a possible solution for windows based implementations. If you could > donate the colde, that would be great. I have seen this possible HTML > code for opening up folders from a web page: > > <body> > <STYLE> > A {behavior: url(#default#AnchorClick);} </STYLE> > > <A HREF = "http://localhost:8080/storage/files/Survey.doc"; > FOLDER = "http://localhost:8080/storage/files/"; > TARGET = "_blank" > > > Open in Web Folder View > </A> > > </body> > > The only issue here is that it doesn't open up the file directly, just > the folder that's it's in. Your solution seems more streamline. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Grant Gongaware" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Slide Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 7:38 PM > Subject: Re: Best Practice? > > > > Wiley, > > > > I have an elaborate WebFolder hack I could contribute to Slide (if > > there's a place for it) that involves creating Shortcut file (*.LNK) > > for any given destination. Using a shortcut on MS Office documents > > opens them directly and the normal save button overwrites directly > > back to the server. > > > > An example link might be: > > <a > > > href="/linkMakingServlet/MyLink.lnk?dest=/slide/work/Report1.doc">Report1.do > c</a> > > > > The user would be asked if they wanted to save or open "MyLink.lnk". > > If they save, they'll get a nice little icon on the desktop for > > later use, or if they open, MS Word will popup and begin its > > GET/LOCK/PROPFIND trickery. > > > > I wrote a pure Java class (based on some hex editing, voodoo, and an > > old > > Win95 C project)... But I have long hoped that there was a better > > solution. If anyone else out there has a better way, PLEASE SHARE! > > Otherwise, I'll contribute mine as it might be the only way to have > > a browser initiated direct edit in Windows with no plug-ins. > > > > -Grant > > > > > > > > Wiley Jacobs wrote: > > > > >I would like to have my web clients be able to check out a files > > >from a > web interface, then download the file, work on it and check it back > in. I ideally I would like the user to be able to click on a link and > the doc just > opens up and when changes are made the user can click save and it > saves to the webdav area on the folder. > > > > > >In working with this idea it only looks like there are two solutions: > > > > > >1) The user has to open the file in a webdav client (ex web folders > > >in > ie) > > > > > >2) The user is prompted to save the file locally and then they have > > >to > upload it back into the system. > > > > > >Is there an alternate best practice that can streamline this process? > > > > > >Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
