InfoQube IM - Community

Submitted by Tom on 2012/05/23 12:39

EDIT / READ_ME!!! / (2012-05-24 22:10GMT)

Pierre thinks that you can only see Office files in IE if you have Office installed - Logical :-)

I cant find any confirmation (or denial) of this - but I'm no expert at searching the net. So unless anyone presents evidence otherwise, I guess we without MS Office dont get to peek ;-)

EDIT/ ThomR has posted screenshots of his registry - he has Office installed.

If you do NOT have MS Office installed, AND you can see Office files in IE

some screenshots of your registry would be much appreciated !!

Could anyone with a working HTML pane that shows "office" docs show a screenshot of the relevant part(s) of their registry, or transcribe the values for the various office filetypes (MS office filetypes and RTF).

If the filetype has subfolders (as in the .doc screenshots below, I believe these can be ignored).

The path is shown in the window's statusbar (I think all filetypes are listed here)

I realise this is asking a lot of rooting around - so even if you can do just one filetype, please do!

Thanks in advance, Tom

_______________________________________________________

Win.7 64bit ~ IQ 0.9.25W10 portable

Comments

I don't use this functionality, so I am not 100% sure what you mean. But if you point me to the steps I will happily try it out and share the results (and registry settings).

[quote=reesd]

I don't use this functionality, so I am not 100% sure what you mean. But if you point me to the steps I will happily try it out and share the results (and registry settings). [/quote]

I actually use it relatively seldom myself - you can open a file in the html pane. It is automatically saved (or maybe just linked - it's there anyways next time you go to that item).

It uses IE to display the file but there is a problem with IE - whether it will open a file or not depends on the registry (XP users can modify via Folder Options see this post, but this capability seems to be removed in later win versions)

This was a big problem with emails saved to IQ from Thunderbird - they refused to show in the HTML pane but (for me, and others,) prompted a download/open-with dialogue.

That was resolved in this thread via the registry.

More or less the same problem with many other filetypes. PDFs were also resolved in the same manner in the previous link, but I thought I'd start a new thread for office docs.

Here is a possible solution from MS (but only mentions IE 7 & 8)

A new application window opens when you try to view an Office 2010 document in Internet Explorer 7 or in Internet Explorer 8

which recommends editing another part of the registry - maybe I should just do a big backup and chance it (but I really am a noob when it comes to this type of stuff and cant afford to mess things up here at the moment...)

Here's what they recommend:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesWord.Document.8]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000024

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesWord.RTF.8]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000024

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesWord.Document.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000024

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesWord.DocumentMacroEnabled.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000024

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesExcel.Sheet.8]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000A00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesExcel.Sheet.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000A00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesExcel.SheetMacroEnabled.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000A00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesExcel.SheetBinaryMacroEnabled.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:80000A00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesPowerPoint.Show.8]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:800000A0

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesPowerPoint.Show.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:800000A0

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesPowerPoint.ShowMacroEnabled.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:800000A0

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesPowerPoint.SlideShow.8]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:800000A0

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesPowerPoint.SlideShow.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:800000A0

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesPowerPoint.SlideShowMacroEnabled.12]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:800000A0

EDIT/ but I dont have "ClassesWord" nor "Classes[backslash]Word" nor any "Excel" entries, probably as I dont have MS Office installed.

Anyone have any opinion whether that might be okay to add to my registry? (The instructions on the MS site are to make a reg file.)

(Backlslash gets stripped out when I post...)

_______________________________________________________

Win.7 64bit ~ IQ 0.9.25W10 portable

Tom,

I remember I had to change the IE8 'BrowserFlags dword values' myself to get IQ to show my .docs (and they work fine now). I have always had Office installed though, so I don't know how it works with other word processors etc.

Thanks Thom

I might wait & see if anyone without Office installed reports.

I beleive (I *think*) Jan has office installed so he could possibly try these values.

_______________________________________________________

Win.7 64bit ~ IQ 0.9.25W10 portable

[quote=Tom]Here is a possible solution from MS (but only mentions IE 7 & 8)

A new application window opens when you try to view an Office 2010 document in Internet Explorer 7 or in Internet Explorer 8

[/quote]

well, I tried the reg fix and got the message that it did not apply to my system or application (I'm on windows 7 but without MS Office installed). So I dont know why it failed nor what to do now. The article does not explain whether it is relevant for users without MS Office. Also it does nt mention IE9 - I am still using IE8 but want to upgrade...

_______________________________________________________

Win.7 64bit ~ IQ 0.9.25W10 portable

Tom, my default registry values for .doc .rtf &.odt

are

docfile

rtffile

opendocument.WriterDocument.1

respectively

None of those type files, i.e.

doc

rtf

odt (open writer)

open in the HTML file here.

@Tom,

don't you need Office installed to view Office docs inside IE (and IQ) ? How could it be otherwise...

OK, Pierre. I have Open Office installed. What do I do?

AFAIK, you need MS Office to view Office files...

Open Office are not .doc files. They are odt files. The entire suite of programs are installed. Don't they count?