Re: Unable to access this site

From: H Leboeuf (NoAddress_at_generation.invalid)
Date: 05/01/04 

Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 11:00:09 -0400

Hope this can help.

WD2000: How to Change I. E. to Open Linked Files in Word Instead of in
Browser
In Microsoft Internet Explorer, when you click a link to a Word document, by
default, Internet Explorer opens the Word document "in-place" in the Web
browser. This article describes how to open linked documents in Microsoft
Word, instead of opening them in-place.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=254918 (6/24/2003) 

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Henri Leboeuf
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"james" <pounamu_22@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:6e6301c42f25$21b14e60$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> This may not be the right forum for this but I am unable
> to get the following page to display when clicking it
> from within a Microsoft Office application:
>
> https://meeting.webex.com/meeting/j.php?ED=1519296&RG=1
>
> When I pasted this URL into Word or Excel and clicked on
> it, it gives me "Page cannot be displayed".  If you click
> on refresh, the page loads.  This also only occurs when
> IE is set as my default browser.  I've tried it on the
> following:
>
> WinXP SP1, Word 2003, Excel 2003
> Win2K SP3, Word 2000
>
> When I changed my default browser to Firefox, I was able
> to access the link from within Word.  Any ideas?  Seems
> to be the way that Word is interacting or sending the
> link to IE.  I would contact WebEx but it doesn't seem to
> be an issue with their URL since it works independent
> from Word and also if a different browser is used.  Any
> help is much appreciated.

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