Hyperlinks open as Read-only??

[Mike67]

I am building an excel sheet which contains a number of hyperlinks to
other documents (powerpoint presentations, PDF-files, etc), but as I
click the hyperlinks they open as read-only files, and I would much
prefer that they open within their original program (e.g MS Powerpoint)
so that the user will be able to save the linked file locally..

Can anyone help??? Thanks a lot..

/Michael

 

[David McRitchie]

Hi Mike,
What are they opening up in. If PDF files are opening up in
Internet Explorer, I think it is because you installed plugins when you
installed the Acrobat reader. Having browsers open up such files
within the browser is a big mistake, in my opinion, and one that is
hard to eliminate. Also don't install toolbars to open PDF files in
your browser.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/pdf.htm
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#acrobat

Of course you did not say what really happens so that was my
guess.

A problem involving backing up files to a diskette or a CD-R might
be involved with read only files even accessed in their own application
and even if restored to a hard drive from portable media.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/backup.htm#readonly

Direct use of newsgroups would be preferable to web based access.
Web based access that stores newsgroup postings as web pages
seriously impairs use search engines. If you must use web access
then Google Groups at least keep postings out of where they don't belong.
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/xlnews.htm#posting

 

[Dave Peterson]

I use Adobe Reader 7.0.

I opened a local pdf file and then changed this setting in Reader:

Edit|Preferences|Internet Category
uncheck "Display PDF in Browser"

(I don't like PDFs opening in MSIE, either.)

Earlier versions of Reader (or whatever it was called), I had to move/delete a
..dll (the name of which no longer exists in my brain!). But that was with
version 5.x (IIRC).

 

[David McRitchie]

Good to know, I'm still using Acrobat Reader 5.1, I had
so much trouble with either 6.0 or 7.0 that I uninstalled it and
reinstalled 5.1 because the newer one would not read the
files on many sites. They really have compatibility problems.
Especially bad when accountants use it all the time and can't
read a file. It was the one that new at end of March last year.