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browse in same window using office 2003 and vista

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by markw

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I am trying to find out how i can get Word and Excel 2003 documents to open in their own programs rather than the web browser on Vista.
I used to untick "Browse in same window" in the advanced section of File Types in XP but i haven't been able to find it in Vista.

I have found the file association section in Vista but it doesn't have it there.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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by markw

Open the Registry Editor by typing 'regedit' in the Start Search box.

I was given this answer from another forum.
For excel go to Excel.Sheet.8
In the registry, navigate to:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Document.8]

In the right-hand pane, create a new REG_DWORD value named 'BrowserFlags' and give it a value of '8'

by bbnetman

Thank you for responding and thank you for the fix to this annoying problem!

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