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  1. Bug #15179
  2. Comment #44

Comment 44 for bug 15179

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Sabatoge (haferka) wrote :

This is an old issue.. but I have some new information....

The problem is also present in IE.. BUT with a work around.

HKCR\Excel.Sheet.5\BrowserFlags
HKCR\Excel.Sheet.8\BrowserFlags
HKCR\Word.Document.6\BrowserFlags
HKCR\Word.Document.8\BrowserFlags
HKCR\MSProject.Project.8\BrowserFlags
HKCR\PowerPoint.Show.8\BrowserFlags

Set the values of BrowserFlags to Dword "a"

this will force IE to open the documents in a seperate window as a read-only file.