Eliminating ietag.dll messages on your MS-Office generated web pages

[RoyMassie]

Posting this here because I could not find a succinct solution to this
problem anyhwere else and it took me a while to sort out.

Problem:
If you create / publish web content using the MS Office suite, you may
get download prompts to add ietag.dll when you browse to the page
using IE. This creates an undesirable experience for page visitors
since downloading DLLs is always suspect. This can occur even is the
page visitor (browser PC) already has the DLL. I believe this occurs
because the version on the browsing PC does not match the one in the
namespace given near the top of the compiled HTML pages (from MS-Word
for example). Apparently Office inserts its own tags in the generated
HTML so it can reload the pages and render them with underlines and
other tagging having special meaning for the Internt (e.g. e-mail
addresses get a dashed purple underline in Word).

Solution:
Use the "Filtered HTML" Save As option in the Office application so
the generated HTML does not have the reload tags and the HTML will not
need the irtag.dll leading to the download prompt. You will not be
able to reload your compiled HTML back into the Office app for editing
but this should not be an issue if you just treat them as output for
the web site (files) and use the original Office doc as the master
copy to be revised.

 

[Gina Whipp]

RoyMassie,

Perhaps this would fall on *better* eyes in the Word newsgroup. This one is
for Microsoft Access a database software solution that is part of Microsoft
Office.

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Gina Whipp

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