Re: Please help an idiot!!!

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 12/27/02 

From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 15:47:44 -0500

You didn't really respond to my post. How are you opening them up.... via
http://servername/foldername/filename or \\servername\foldername\filename?
[e.g. by URL or by UNC]

The latter should work, the former... probably not.

"dhowell" <dhowell@qstarnet.com> wrote in message
news:050e01c2adc9$38170660$cef82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA08...
> These files on on an Intranet. They were created in Excel
> or Word and saved as a webpage. When looking at these and
> clicking on edit with Word/Excel it will only bring it up
> in read only. I need it to edit the doc and then save the
> updates.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Well, if you're opening up the files using a URL starting
> with http://,
> >AFAIK I think this is working as expected. Try using a
> UNC URL such as
> >file://computername/foldername/filename.doc However,
> you'd probably need
> >to permit NetBIOS / Windows networking to the server.
> >
> 

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