From: Bob Callaway (callaway@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 11:32:28 PDT
I just tried this, and I was able to access the Word document
("Advertising Request Form") by clicking the link or by copying the
link into Internet Explorer 5.1 on the Mac. No problem.
At 4:10 PM +0000 6/13/02, Kathleen Phillips Satz wrote:
>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
>
>===============================================
>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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