Re: Browser Won't Launch when CTRL-clicking hyperlink

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From: Graham Mayor (gmayor_at_NOSPAMmvps.org)
Date: 05/19/04


Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 09:08:31 +0100

This will almost certainly be a conflict over file associations between IE
and Netscape. I suspect you will have to return the default setting to IE.
Unless you want to pay the spammer for a solution I would ask this question
in an IE or Windows newsgroup.

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Kelly wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using Word 2002. I have Microsoft IE 5.5 and Netscape 7.1
> installed and both work properly. I copied and pasted some parts of a
> webpage into a .doc and to my pleasant surprise the embedded URLs
> came with it.  The hyperlinks show up blue and underlined and when I
> slowly scroll over them the full URL pops up. However, when I
> CTRL-click on them I get an error message--"Unable to open
> http://(shows link). No program is registered to open this file". I
> have searched all the menus and cannot find a place where I tell Word
> what application to launch when encountering a URL.  Any ideas?
> Thanks.


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