Word .DOC viewer for Mozilla

Justin Zygmont jzygmont-tEQKYFGiemxAYG7eUwYNkWD2FQJk+8+b at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 7 20:26:28 UTC 2003


I was wondering if there was a way to open MS-WORD through emulation for 
this?


On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Madison Kelly wrote:

> I was thinking os setting "application/.doc" in the helper applications 
> section of Mozilla and telling it to use 'swriter' but I was worried 
> about OO being so big that load times will be lost. I then thought of 
> Abiword, but then formatting will be lost... Can you think of/so you 
> know of an app that will display a word document quickly while leaving 
> the formatting in tact?
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> Madison
> 
> Jing Su wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Madison Kelly wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>right in the e-mail program. I have shown them how to save the file to a
> >>directory and open it in OpenOffice but this is a pretty big thing to
> >>this user because of the number of docs she gets (she is in charge of
> > 
> > 
> > Is there a way to set up the MIME types so that clicking on the attachment
> > in Mozilla mail will auto-pipe it to OO?  Not as smooth as being embedded
> > in the same window, but alteast no more explicit temp file management.
> > 
> > 
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