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   Moz Champion to Mrs Beeble Brock   
   Re: MS Word downloading   
   21 Apr 05 02:29:20   
   
   From: moz.champion@sympatico.ca   
      
   Mrs Beeble Brock wrote:   
   > For some reason when I click on a web link and it happens to link to a   
   > MSWord document, Netscape automatically starts downloading it. How can I   
   > stop this?   
   > My helper application dialogue currently has it marked to be opened with   
   > MS Word. The box at the bottom that has "always ask before handling   
   > files of this type" is greyed out with a grey tick in the box.   
      
   Um, its downloading the file because thats what you told it to do.   
   What do you expect to happen?   
   The ask option is greyed out because you told Netscape NOT to ask in   
   future for this type of file   
   Do you want to change that?   
      
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