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Adarsh Menon
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I am trying to open different file types in Internet Explorer 6. PDF files were ok. To open Microsoft Office filetypes, I used information from the following support article:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927009 . This was done by tweaking the "BrowserFlags" entry in the Registry.
But I cannot do the same for .rtf files. On a machine which doesn't have Microsoft Office installed, the .doc filetype tends to default to Wordpad as the application. So what I want to achieve is that
- On a computer that doesn't have Microsoft office installed, if I try to open a link (href) to a .doc it should open in the browser (even if it is associated with Wordpad by default). Is it possible?
- How can I get .rtf files to open in IE? Is there something that I need to do in the registry. I tried to create the "BrowserFlags" entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Wordpad.Document.1 area but it doesn't seem to work.
Adarsh Menon
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But I cannot do the same for .rtf files. On a machine which doesn't have Microsoft Office installed, the .doc filetype tends to default to Wordpad as the application. So what I want to achieve is that
- On a computer that doesn't have Microsoft office installed, if I try to open a link (href) to a .doc it should open in the browser (even if it is associated with Wordpad by default). Is it possible?
- How can I get .rtf files to open in IE? Is there something that I need to do in the registry. I tried to create the "BrowserFlags" entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Wordpad.Document.1 area but it doesn't seem to work.
Adarsh Menon
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