displaying Word doc's within IE...

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Brenda

I am assisting a user with posting .doc files to our
intranet. When I click a link and load fileA.doc the
file opens in the same IE window. When I click Back, it
takes me back to the index. When I click the link and
load fileB.doc, it opens in the IE window, but when I
click Back, I get the message box that says "This
document has been modified. Do you want to save
changes?". Doesn't seem to be consistent except that if
I get this msg with one file, I always get it with that
file. Any ideas?? Thanks.
 
Brenda said:
I am assisting a user with posting .doc files to our
intranet. When I click a link and load fileA.doc the
file opens in the same IE window. When I click Back, it
takes me back to the index. When I click the link and
load fileB.doc, it opens in the IE window, but when I
click Back, I get the message box that says "This
document has been modified. Do you want to save
changes?". Doesn't seem to be consistent except that if
I get this msg with one file, I always get it with that
file. Any ideas?? Thanks.
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Does the problem document contain any fields that might be updated
automatically when it is opened? Although I haven't seen this situation
with Word documants, I encounter it frequently with some Excel files.
 
I get the message box that says
"This document has been modified.
Do you want to save changes?".
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Are you opening it with Word or WordViewer?
If it is Word it may be that you have macros recording things
or otherwise making changes. (That's a guess; I don't use Word.)

Hmm... it appears that depending on the version of Word involved
there may be a related Hotfix and registry switch to enable a change
in functionality which could change your symptom:

<title>KB324328 - WD2002: Password Prompt When You Close a Word Document You Opened in a Web Browser</title>

(TechNet search for
kbword* kbie* writ*
)

Note: since the online KB Boolean search has apparently stopped
supporting stemming documenting an equivalent Boolean search
expression would be completely artificial but FWIW this search should
pick up that particular item and perhaps some of the others too:

kbwordsearch AND kbiesearch AND (write OR writes OR writing OR written)


BTW you may get a better answer in a newsgroup which specializes
in Word. Responders there would be more familiar with the product
combinations than responders here who specialize only in IE.


Hmm... I was about to cross-post to a Word newsgroup for you but it
appears that this could be a hoary FAQ there and my guess appears
to be more or less correct: ;o

<
http://groups.google.com/groups?num...prompt+MVP+group:microsoft.*.word&btnG=Search >

(Google Groups search for
browser back save prompt MVP group:microsoft.*.word
)


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
 
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