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  1. simonWMC2

    Open MS office documents in Office not the browser

    Thanks guys.... The only way i managed to get around it in the end was to instruct the users to use the shortcut menu to download the file. Thanks Tek-Tippers :)
  2. simonWMC2

    Launch MS Office documents in Office - not in the browser

    Hi Guys... I have a web page that lalinks to lots of word, excel, powerpoint and access files. Using a normal a href link makes the document open in the browser window. I tried using a javascript acticex to force the document to open in the office application, but due to security on our...
  3. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    Thanks guys... It is definatly a security setting on explorer. I am not allowed active x. However, I am now going to try in .asp...... Thanks to everyone for their help!
  4. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    Actually the error has changed... Now an error on var myApp = new ActiveXObject("Word.Application"); It says : Automation server can't create object
  5. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    Got excited for a moment....but no, :( Thanks for trying though...
  6. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    Hi... The doc is def there, cos if you ignore the javascript it opens the doc in explorer... Here is first half of source. The rest is just a big table... <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html...
  7. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    The browser appears to do nothing. Either from the link or if you paste into the address bar. It does show an error Says it has an expected ] at character 15 of line 1. line one (on my page) is : <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"...
  8. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    They are on an intranet server... the full URL goes like this javascript:startWord(http://myServer/myFolder/myDocument.doc) Hope that makes sense ? Simon
  9. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    I put the code above into the head of a simple HTML page with several links to MS Office files. I want the files to open in the Office application (ie Word or Excel, ect). With normal href links they open in internet explorer window, not in thew application itself. Although I do understand it...
  10. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    Yes thank you. Trouble is I need to do it from the web page. I can't mess with the client machines :( Thank you very much for your help though! :)
  11. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    Thanks. Trouble is if you do that, it opens it in the browser. I want it to open actually in word. Thanks Simon
  12. simonWMC2

    Force Office documents to open in office, not the browser.

    (Sorry, i posted this in the wrong forum, so copied it here now - I am a numpty!) Hi guys... I have buit a web page that needs to link to a number of word, excel, powerpoint and access files. I want the links to open the files in the full applications rather than the web browser (ie6). I...
  13. simonWMC2

    Open MS office documents in Office not the browser

    Hi guys... I have buit a web page that needs to link to a number of word, excel, powerpoint and access files. I want the links to open the files in the full applications rather than the web browser (ie6). I have tried <script language="JavaScript"> function startWord(strFile) { var...
  14. simonWMC2

    Importing screen dump as graphic

    sorry - i meant to say YES the dimension is the same. The image is still poor quality....
  15. simonWMC2

    Importing screen dump as graphic

    I don't think so, no. If edit in fireworks, it says it is the same size. However - the quality when viewed in fireworks is good, but in flash it is poor....
  16. simonWMC2

    Importing screen dump as graphic

    Thanks - unfortunately, it is still the same. anyone have any other ideas ?
  17. simonWMC2

    Importing screen dump as graphic

    Hi... I have taken a screen dump of an application created in access. I then want to insert this shot into my flash document. The problem is it loses so much quality you can't read the text. The picture is fine in photoshop or fireworks even as a jpg, but as soon as it is imported into flash...
  18. simonWMC2

    Losing Image quality

    Hello... I have captures a screen from an access database using the print screen button. I then pasted this image into photoshop and saved as a jpg. This image looks fine in photoshop and all the text is readable. However, when I import to Flash the quality is reduced and the text within...
  19. simonWMC2

    if else statements...

    thankyou ! that now does exactly what i want !
  20. simonWMC2

    if else statements...

    pro isn't getting changed to true... I have got _root.pro == true; stop(); on the asctions layer in the last frame (also tried on second frame) of the third movie clip. I'm not sure what it isn't changing to true...

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