Re: Strange behavior for links to documents ......

From: Andibub (andibub_at_centurytel.net)
Date: 02/06/04 

Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 03:15:38 -0800

Hi Stefan,

Actually, I found a more recent article that helped me fix the problem. I'm
using MSO 2000 with all the Service Releases installed. What are we up to
now, SR3? I can't remember. Plus, I have FP2002, so there have been updates
for Office XP installed as well. What a mess! Don't ever mix versions!
LOL!!!

Anyway, the article I found related to Word 2003 specifically, but also
related to IE6 (which is what I also run) so I took a chance. The article
requires us to make a registry modification and although the path didn't
exactly match my version (Word is version 9 instead of 11 mentioned in the
article), I took a chance and tried it. It fixed the problem.

Apparently, when a word document is opened in a browser window and that
window is subsequently closed or you use the browser back button, IE
attempts to write an entry somewhere, I forget where now, .... AND if you
HAPPEN to be viewing that document from a web site that YOU have published
yourself, it's going to try to write that entry back to the web server where
the file was retrieved from. Go figure!

The article is located at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822128&Product=ie600
and it also has a link in it for Word 2002, which did not contain the
information I needed myself.

For anybody who has been following this thread, I finally discovered why it
was randomly trying to open Word instead of viewing the file in the browser
window. For the first file I viewed and subsequently closed the browser
window, IE was in the background trying to write this entry somewhere. In
the meantime, I had clicked the next link. Since IE wasn't done with the
last file (I guess), Word kicked in to actually download and open the 2nd
document. At the same time Word started, the password requirement for the
last browser window I closed would pop up making me think it was Word asking
for it. By waiting to see what happened after I closed the browser window,
I discovered the password request would eventually come up. Once I clicked
cancel on it, I could click the next link and the document would open in the
browser window where it belonged. Good old high-speed internet access had
gotten ahead of me.

Anyway, modifying the registry adding the key this article suggested has
fixed the problem. I no longer get any password request. The documents all
open in the browser window as they were intended to do and I can close the
window quickly and go to the next document without any trouble.

I hope this helps someone else trying to figure out what the heck is going
on.

Thanks everyone, for your help.
Pat

(ps: This dang forum is still loosing my posts. I finally bit the bullet
and got Outlook Express set up to view these newsgroups. My own original
thread won't download! I get the responses, but not the top level of the
thread. I can view it in the browser version of the newsreader, but not on
OE. Grrrrrrrrrr!)

"Stefan B Rusynko" <sbr_enjoy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OMBbTvJ7DHA.2712@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> What version of MSO are you using / creating the Word docs in
> See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;225234&Product=fp2000
>