Document number: 19018

 

How Internet Exploxer behaves when a link points to a non-html file depends upon the file type and your browser settings. When you click an HTML link to a Microsoft Office file (such as a Microsoft Word or Excel document), Internet Explorer may open the file in Internet Explorer, it may open the file in the appropriate Office program, or it may prompt to download the file.  When you click an HTML link to other kinds of files the application may be launched or you may get a prompt to choose to open the file from its current location or download the file. In some cases opening the file in the browser window will cause errors, for example, when you try to load a query to Excel.  A better practice is to keep the prompt so the file can be saved to disk, then open the application and open the file from within the application. To change whether you receive the prompt select your operating system below.

Change whether a document link opens in Internet Explorer

1. Launch My Computer.

2. Click on the Tools menu and select Folder Options...

3. The Folder Options window appears. Click the File Types tab.

4. Find the file type name or extension, e.g. .XLS
• Click on the name of the file type in the Registered file types: field to highlight it.
• Click on the Ad vanced button.
• An Edit File Type window will open.

• Check the box next to Confirm Open After Download if you want to be able to choose whether to open the associated application or save the file to disk.

• Uncheck the box next to Confirm Open After Download if you want to the associated application to open without requiring you to answer a prompt.

• Uncheck the box next to Browse in same window if you want it to open in the associated application, not the browser window (or click to clear the Open Web documents in place check box). .
  Check the box next to next to Browse in same window if you want the file to open in the browser (or click to check the Open Web documents in place check box).

• Click OK to close the Edit file Type window.

5. Click Close to close the Options window.

Your reassociation should work when files of the indicated type are double-clicked and when links to them are selected in HTML documents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Created by the PeopleSoft Knowledge Management Team.
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Created: db 05/09/2001
Revised: db 05/25/2004