Open Office Viewers (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) in IE

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kjreuter

I am trying to use the newest Office Viewers provided by Microsoft to
open Word, Powerpoint, and Excel files inside of Internet Explorer. I
know with the full version of these programs it is possible to set
this up, but when only the viewer is installed the option to "Browse
in same window" (found within windows explorer Tools->Folder Options-
File Types->Advanced) is no longer available or greyed out.
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I found several articles on this matter including:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/162059

which tells me how to do the opposite of what I want to do. I tried
watching the registry when making the changes suggested, but the
affected key that is added with a certain value or removed, not
updated with a different value depending on the desired behavior. So
that was no help.

Does anyone know of a way to force/trick IE into opening these files
using the viewer?

Thanks,
Kasey
 
I don't think you can do what you want - IE uses the system file type
settings, so you cannot specify IE to use a Word viewer instead of the full
version of Word (if installed) to open a .doc file, for instance.
 
Thanks for the response Jon...

Office is not installed on the computer in question. What happens is
when the user clicks on a link to an office document (e.g. a link to
a .doc file) the Office Viewer (e.g. the word viewer) opens outside of
IE not within the browser itself.
 
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