{"id":176,"date":"2002-12-06T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-05T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/176"},"modified":"2002-12-06T04:37:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-05T23:07:00","slug":"176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/176\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h3> When IE opens Offices documents and PDF<\/h3>\n<p>This has been a cause of considerable irritation to me. Whenever there is a link to a file like a word document or a pdf file or a powerpoint presentation, and I click the link in IE, instead of asking me if I want to save it to disk, IE opens it. And if the file size is big, it puts you to sleep (I can&#8217;t afford broadband yet). Also, I noticed another thing today: one of my colleagues clicked on a link on a site and it opened a word document. Now the UI resembles MS-Word though it is only IE that&#8217;s opened the document&#8230; and guess what he did after he was done&#8230; he wanted to close the window and I asked him &#8216;but why!?&#8217; &#8216;I wanna go to the previous page.&#8217; Pat came the answer. All he had to do was hit the browser back button. But I wouldn&#8217;t blame him. 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