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IE lets me, Edit with Microsot Office. I cant do this with Firefox??

wgyost
wgyost
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Using IE version 8 and Microsoft Office 2003. Using IE, after a Web Page with TEXT ONLY, is displayed, i can go to, FILE-a menu opens. One of the options that can be chosen is: EDIT WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE. This option will transfer the Text from the web page to Microsoft Office. In my case it goes to WORD.

I would like to do this with Firefox and not go back and load IE.

Using IE version 8 and Microsoft Office 2003. Using IE, after a Web Page with TEXT ONLY, is displayed, i can go to, FILE-a menu opens. One of the options that can be chosen is: EDIT WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE. This option will transfer the Text from the web page to Microsoft Office. In my case it goes to WORD. I would like to do this with Firefox and not go back and load IE.

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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You've probably used "View Source" in Firefox. You can have Microsoft Word be your application to view source. This is a read-only copy that you would have to save into a new location; you can't actually edit the live web site using Word through Firefox.

There might be an add-on to make this easier, but if not, here's what you need to do.

First, you need to get the path to Microsoft Word 2003. On XP, this probably is the following:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE

You might want to select that and copy it to the clipboard.

Second, you need to update two settings in Firefox.

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the filter box, type or paste view_source and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click view_source.editor.path and paste the path to Word.

(4) Double-click view_source.editor.external to toggle it to true (it should turn bold).

Then return to a regular web page and try View Source. Does it work?

One issue you may run into is that by default, Word will render the HTML source back into a web page. To defeat that, you may need to set this option in Word:

Tools > Options > General tab > check Confirm conversion at open

Then choose Plain Text when prompted.

Hope this helps.

Modified by jscher2000 - Support Volunteer