access Word docs on web (IE)

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From: Kathleen Phillips Satz (ksatz@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 09:10:09 PDT

Hi: We have a number of Word documents posted on our website. In Internet
Explorer, I have no problem opening them if I click on a link, but if I
type or paste in the URL, I'm unable to open them. The error message says
both "unable to open" and "IE was not able to find this site." Then it
pretends it's transferring the data, but never finishes.

Netscape is no problem; it offers the option to save to disk or open the
file. Unfortunately, we're not in a position to tell our users only to use
Netscape.

An example is http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/forms/adform.doc .

It sounds like a browser issue, but is there a publishing solution from our
end, or should we just tell IE users they have to click on a link rather
than pasting in the URL to open Word docs? (We use Dreamweaver 4 to publish.)

Thanks for any help,
Kathleen

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Kathleen Phillips Satz
Human Resources Communications
Office of Human Resources
207 University Hall - #3540
Berkeley, CA 94720-3540

(510) 642-5499 FAX: (510) 642-2888
http://hrweb.berkeley.edu

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