Opening Access Hyperlinks

[Guest]

How can I change the default opening browser from IE to Netscape for all my
hyperlinks in a database? I have a field already populated with a hyperline
for an associated website for the data in my records. Now it opens in IE,
but I want it to open using Netscape. Using Access 2003 Ver 10.6501.6626
SP3 on a PC platform running Windows XP Home edition.

 

[Harley Feldman]

The browser that is opened when a hyperlink is executed is set as a default on the client computer where the user clicks the hyperlink. On your computer, it must be set to IE. Which ever user accesses the database, the default browser on the user's client will be called regardless of any setting in Access. You can check on the default for the client using Windows Explorer at Tools/Options/File Types. Click on the file type that you are referencing in the hyperlink.

Harley

 

[Steve Huff]

You can do this in a round about way. You can put a label on the form and
then on the click event put the followin code:

Shell "C:\program files\Netscape\Netscape\netscp http://www.huffs.us"

the shell command will launch netscape and the url specificed, in this
example www.huffs.us. You need to make sure that all the machines have
Netscape installed in the same location though. If they don't you will have
to write code to find netscp.exe first.