How to force Office documents to save to disk instead of opening

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Toni Lassila

I know it must be a simple registry fix but can't figure out what to do
to prevent Office documents (.doc, .xls) from opening directly in the
corresponding program in IE. As it is, a bug in Excel2K is preventing
downloads of Excel files since the default action is to open with
read-write and this fails over the WWW.

How can I get the "Save or open" dialog for Office documents in IE?
 
You set this for each file type, e.g. for .zip
Explorer-View-Folder Options-File Types
Find the .zip association (may be WinZip File)
Edit, (or click Advanced on ME or XP) and check
the "Confirm open
after download" box

The path to Folder Options may vary according to your
operating
system. It may be:
Explorer-View-Folder Options
Explorer-Tools-Folder Options
Start-Settings-Folder Options
Start-Settings-Control Panel-Folder options.

From: Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems


More information if you need it.

Office Documents Open in Internet Explorer
When you click a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) link to
a Microsoft Office file (such as a Microsoft Excel
document), Internet Explorer may open the file in Internet
Explorer, instead of opening the file in the appropriate
Office program.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=162059 (Mar. 17, 2002)


Henri Leboeuf
http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/index.htm
 
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