I have a lot of excel spreadsheets with embedded links to jpg and pdf documents stored on an NAS. In both Win XP and Win 7 I could set the file association to make them always open in the Win picture preview pane.
In Win 8.1 they will ONLY open in IE11.
I have changed the registry as directed by MS in this article to no avail.
How to configure Internet Explorer to open Office documents in the appropriate Office program instead of in Internet Explorer
Locate the subkey for the specific Office document type. The following table lists the subkeys for several common Office document types. Microsoft Office Excel 97-2003 Worksheet Excel.Sheet.8
After you identify the subkey for the specific Office document type, follow these steps:
If the Office document is an Microsoft Office Excel document, add the following value for all Microsoft Office Excel subkeys except the Excel.Sheet.5 subkey:Value name: BrowserFlags
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value: 8
Anyone else having this problem? I do not want to view them in IE which is harder to zoom, and my habits do not change as easily as MS thinks they should.
Ideas?
In Win 8.1 they will ONLY open in IE11.
I have changed the registry as directed by MS in this article to no avail.
How to configure Internet Explorer to open Office documents in the appropriate Office program instead of in Internet Explorer
Locate the subkey for the specific Office document type. The following table lists the subkeys for several common Office document types. Microsoft Office Excel 97-2003 Worksheet Excel.Sheet.8
After you identify the subkey for the specific Office document type, follow these steps:
If the Office document is an Microsoft Office Excel document, add the following value for all Microsoft Office Excel subkeys except the Excel.Sheet.5 subkey:Value name: BrowserFlags
Data type: REG_DWORD
Value: 8
Anyone else having this problem? I do not want to view them in IE which is harder to zoom, and my habits do not change as easily as MS thinks they should.
Ideas?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- win 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- asus X200CA
- CPU
- intel celeron 1007U
- Motherboard
- ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. X200CA 1.0
- Memory
- 4.0Gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel(R) HD Graphics [Display adapter]
- Browser
- IE 11
- Antivirus
- Avast