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mpelyhes
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use PWB for Office on the Web

Post by mpelyhes »

Hello,

We use Microsoft Office applications and they have a Help > Office on the Web option which gives the patrons access to Internet Explorer.

Has anyone successfully associated the MS *.CHM files to use PWB.exe instead of iexplore.exe ?

Thanks,
Marlene Pelyhes

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Post by spragers »

Hi Marlene,

You can use the ManageIE browser helper object (on the downloads page here) to prevent Internet Explorer from ever running. Even if you allow patrons to access disk drives / folders with Explorer, as soon as they type in a web address, the window closes. We've been using it here for as long as we've been using our sign-up system.

There is also a tool to make PWB your default browser, but I don't have any experience using that.

Hope that helps!

- Ben

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