Word 2003 & IE

[Guest]

Why do my Word documents open in an IE brower? It is as if it is stuck on
the selection "Web Page Preview" from the File Menu of Word. However,
because the document opens in a brower, the File menu pull down does not have
this option. It is as if it has been saved as maybe a webpage??? This is
happening to all of my word docs and I am not knowingly saving as webpages.
Please help.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Is windows set up to hide document extensions (e.g., .doc, .htm, etc.)? If
so, then start Windows Explorer and choose Tools - Folder Options - View
tab, and disable "Hide extensions for known file types".

Take a look at files you've created and see if Word saving your documents as
..htm or .html files. If so, then choose Tools - Options - Save tab, and make
sure that the default format is set to Word Document.

Or, if this isn't the problem, I wonder if you need to re-register Word to
reset the file associations. Help - Detect and Repair should do it.

 

[Guest]

Herb,

I will check and update my findings....to be continued...

Thank you VERY much for the assistance.

 

[Guest]

Ok, I have disabled the "Hide extensions for known file types" and can now
see the file names showing they were infact saved as .doc. However, after
opening, they continue to appear as if in an ie browser.

I did also check to see how Word saved a couple of these documents and they
were saved as .doc---that was just as you said it should be.

So, I will give your last suggestion a try, ....but will wait until in the
office tomorrow on lan lines instead of dialup modem. Will keep you posted.

Tks!

 

[Guest]

I have now tried your 3rd suggestion for resolution and it did not correct
the problem. I can open a new Word document and it is not in a brower.
However documents previously created when opened are in an IE browser. I did
try taking the info and pasting into a new Word document, but when I do that
document then appears inside of a browser. Nutty and aggravating....is there
any hope, do you think that this can be fixed or just live w/ it and put in
perspective of how small an issue it truly is in comparison to the rest of my
work problems!?

A bad wk in the "Office"

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I would check the file types and see if somehow those files have somehow
become associated with IE instead of Word.

Open Windows Explorer (not IE), and using the menu choose Tools - Folder
Options - File Types tab. Under Extensions, scroll down to DOC (I'm assuming
we're talking about .DOC files).

Click on DOC and then click on the Advanced button. Here, you should see a
list of actions. The default action when you double-click a .DOC file is
listed in bold. It should say Open. Click on Open, then click on Edit.

What does it show under "Application used to perform action:" ?

Mine shows "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde

Note: the location of Office might be different on your system, but this
should specify ...winword.exe.

Running Detect and Repair *should* have re-established the file types (if
they were wrong), but I have seen it fail to work sometimes.

 

[Guest]

Well, in route to check for further updates to this "discussion", I went to a
folder w/ several Word documents and noticed that some of them have hidden
dup's....I selected one, right clicked, then selected Properties and a window
with the tabs-General/Custom/Summary/NetWare Version opened. The General tab
is what shows and it states "type of file"---showed MS Word "opens
with"---instead of the Word icon....it had IE....there is a button to
"change" ...I selected the button and was given the option to choose what
program to to open with!!!!

I don't recall ever knowing the option to choose how to open a document was
there....but I will never forget, now.

I really appreciate all of your help....I feel sort of silly...

Puzzle17