Word .DOC viewer for Mozilla

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 7 22:54:39 UTC 2003


Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I took the plung after selling a good number of Linux boxes to more 
> technical users and for the first time sold a Linux (RH9) box to a 
> "regular" end user. So far, all is well and they are quite happy (and so 
> am I, being that much closer to a MS-free world!).
> 
>   They do have a few issues that they are (I am) trying to resolve. 
> Mostly it is just usage questions. The biggest one for them right now it 
> that apparently when an attachment came through on Outlook Express in 
> MS-Word *.doc format they used to be able to read and print the document 
> 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 
> hiring for her firm so she gets a lot of resumes).
> 
>   So, is there a small app that can simply view/print (not needed to 
> edit) a word doc file right in Mozilla Mail?

You should be able to set up OpenOffice to open attachments.  Look in 
the Mozilla preferences, under helper applications.



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