frame page displaying MS Word

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sumGirl

Hi all. Might be a dumb question, but I am the newbiest of newbs. Have a question about a simpe webpage I host on a campus LAN. I have a page split into two frames, one frame has links that users click to view MS Word documents that are opened in the second frame. This uses some internal IE / Office viewer I guess, not really sure how it works it just does...anyway when the MS Word document is on display, the frame cannot be resized! IE lets you grab the frame and move it maybe a milimeter and thats it. Frames allow resize fine as long as a Word doc is not displayed.

Can someone help!
-thanks
 
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Jack Brewster

Wow, that's wierd.

I just threw together a sample of this and although I can resize the frame,
where I drop it isn't necessarily where it actually lands. It seems to be
bouncing around very inconsistently.

You can see my sample here:
http://www.maxgeek.com/frontpage/frames/

Does that show the same behavior? If so, I don't think there's much you're
going to be able to do about this. I'm not sure what problem you're trying
to address, but maybe if you set a fixed width for the menu it will minimize
your usage problem?

As an FYI, in order to see the Word files in the browser, you need to have
Word, or the free Word Viewer installed. Otherwise, your visitors will only
get a prompt to download the file. This will probably work just fine at
school since you're on an Intranet and odds are good that everyone has Word.

--
Jack Brewster - Microsoft FrontPage MVP

sumGirl said:
Hi all. Might be a dumb question, but I am the newbiest of newbs. Have a
question about a simpe webpage I host on a campus LAN. I have a page split
into two frames, one frame has links that users click to view MS Word
documents that are opened in the second frame. This uses some internal IE /
Office viewer I guess, not really sure how it works it just does...anyway
when the MS Word document is on display, the frame cannot be resized! IE
lets you grab the frame and move it maybe a milimeter and thats it. Frames
allow resize fine as long as a Word doc is not displayed.
 
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Andrew Murray

if the pc has word on it the files open in word.....


sumGirl said:
Hi all. Might be a dumb question, but I am the newbiest of newbs. Have a
question about a simpe webpage I host on a campus LAN. I have a page split into
two frames, one frame has links that users click to view MS Word documents that
are opened in the second frame. This uses some internal IE / Office viewer I
guess, not really sure how it works it just does...anyway when the MS Word
document is on display, the frame cannot be resized! IE lets you grab the frame
and move it maybe a milimeter and thats it. Frames allow resize fine as long as a
Word doc is not displayed.
 
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Andrew Murray

can you try a top frame as the links page, and the main frame (where the word
docs open) as the frame below it, instead of side-by-side?
this way the doc will open in the frame the width of the browser window except
for the portion that is the links above.
 
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