Links to documents opening in IE instead of applications

[SMCU_Derek]

I've created a site using both Publisher and Frontpage. I have several links
to word and Excel documents on different servers in my network. When I test
the site, the links always open up the documents within Internet Explorer.
How can I modify the links so that they open up in the application directly
(Word, Excel, etc).

 

[David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]]

Nope. Little thing called security. You can zip the file and then make the
zip file a download so they can bring the file down for local use. If you
are intending on this being something big, where you want to store lots of
files online, then you are going about it the wrong way. You want to use
Microsoft Sharepoint. Visit office.microsoft.com and go to Sharepoint.


David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com


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[SSi308]

I know this discussion is old, but we just recently started experiencing this
issue.
We have a lot of employee forms on our Intranet that are used to send
information to HR and to the employee's supervisor. Until very recently we
could open the document from the Intranet and it would open in the
appropriate application. Now all the files open in Internet Explorer.

What changed? Why could we open Word documents in Word and now they will
only open in Internet Explorer? Why did it work last week and not this week?

Is there any way to change this back?

Lharris

Nope. Little thing called security. You can zip the file and then make the
zip file a download so they can bring the file down for local use. If you
are intending on this being something big, where you want to store lots of
files online, then you are going about it the wrong way. You want to use
Microsoft Sharepoint. Visit office.microsoft.com and go to Sharepoint.


David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com


(e-mail address removed)...

I've created a site using both Publisher and Frontpage. I have several
links
to word and Excel documents on different servers in my network. When I
test
the site, the links always open up the documents within Internet Explorer.
How can I modify the links so that they open up in the application
directly
(Word, Excel, etc).

 

[DavidF]

Sounds like MSFT has issued another security patch. Don't you love it?

I would suggest that you post this question in a Word newsgroup or forum, as
those folks are probably more on top of recent patches issued that would
cause this sort of problem.

For the short term, perhaps copy the file over to the local computer and
open it there.

DavidF

I know this discussion is old, but we just recently started experiencing
this
issue.
We have a lot of employee forms on our Intranet that are used to send
information to HR and to the employee's supervisor. Until very recently we
could open the document from the Intranet and it would open in the
appropriate application. Now all the files open in Internet Explorer.

What changed? Why could we open Word documents in Word and now they will
only open in Internet Explorer? Why did it work last week and not this
week?

Is there any way to change this back?

Lharris

Nope. Little thing called security. You can zip the file and then make
the
zip file a download so they can bring the file down for local use. If you
are intending on this being something big, where you want to store lots
of
files online, then you are going about it the wrong way. You want to use
Microsoft Sharepoint. Visit office.microsoft.com and go to Sharepoint.


David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com


(e-mail address removed)...

I've created a site using both Publisher and Frontpage. I have several
links
to word and Excel documents on different servers in my network. When I
test
the site, the links always open up the documents within Internet
Explorer.
How can I modify the links so that they open up in the application
directly
(Word, Excel, etc).

 

[SSi308]

Oops, thought I was in the word forum. Thanks for the suggestion.

Sounds like MSFT has issued another security patch. Don't you love it?

I would suggest that you post this question in a Word newsgroup or forum, as
those folks are probably more on top of recent patches issued that would
cause this sort of problem.

For the short term, perhaps copy the file over to the local computer and
open it there.

DavidF

I know this discussion is old, but we just recently started experiencing
this
issue.
We have a lot of employee forms on our Intranet that are used to send
information to HR and to the employee's supervisor. Until very recently we
could open the document from the Intranet and it would open in the
appropriate application. Now all the files open in Internet Explorer.

What changed? Why could we open Word documents in Word and now they will
only open in Internet Explorer? Why did it work last week and not this
week?

Is there any way to change this back?

Lharris

Nope. Little thing called security. You can zip the file and then make
the
zip file a download so they can bring the file down for local use. If you
are intending on this being something big, where you want to store lots
of
files online, then you are going about it the wrong way. You want to use
Microsoft Sharepoint. Visit office.microsoft.com and go to Sharepoint.


David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com


(e-mail address removed)...
I've created a site using both Publisher and Frontpage. I have several
links
to word and Excel documents on different servers in my network. When I
test
the site, the links always open up the documents within Internet
Explorer.
How can I modify the links so that they open up in the application
directly
(Word, Excel, etc).