Ed, it's not all that difficult, but it does take a little explaining. If you have MS Office 97 I'm assuming you're running Windows 95. You have to set up the "file association" for Word Perfect documents to your MS Word program.
There's two ways I know of doing it ... one easier, one slightly more difficult.
The easy way ...
I'm using Netscape Communicator v4.5 so I set it up in Netscape and then Netscape sets it up for me in Win95 "automagically". The following should apply to any 4.xx version of Netscape.
In Netscape, go to the Edit Menu and click 'Preferences'.
If necessary, click on the "+" by 'Navigator' to expand your selection, or if already expanded go to the next step.
Click on 'Applications'.
On the right hand side of the panel click on 'New Type'.
In my version of Netscape there are 4 entries to be filled in (all entries to be made without the double quotes I use for clarity) ...
- Description of Type -- enter "Word Perfect Document" or whatever you want to call it.
- File Extension -- enter "w50 w51 w60 w61", this will allow you to handle versions 5.0, 5.1, 6.0 and 6.1 of Word Perfect.
- Mime Type -- enter "application/wordperfect" (notice no spaces before or after the slash character! ).
- Application To Use -- Click on "Browse" and browse to the location of your 'winword.exe' program. Double click 'winword.exe', the path will be entered into the box (depending on whether there are 'long file names' in the path you might see double quotes around the path entered into the box, this is OK, ignore).
Leave the "check box" at the bottom of the panel un-checked (not sure how it works, but mine is un-checked).
Now click OK at the bottom of the "New Type" panel, and then click OK once more to exit the Edit Preferences dialog.
That should be it, Netscape should have defined the "file association" to Win95. You can check this by opening Explorer, clicking on View, then Options, then clicking the File Types tab. By scrolling down you should find the new entry "Word Perfect Document" or whatever name you gave it when defining the new type in Netscape.
The slightly more difficult way ...
If you're not using Netscape you can use these procedures to set up the "file association" directly in Win95, but then you'll probably still have to tell your browser to use this new association ... I can't help with that part.
Open Explorer in Win95.
Click "View" and then "Options".
Click on the "File Types" tab.
Click on "New Type".
For 'Description Type' enter (without the quotes) "Word Perfect Document".
For 'Associated Extension' enter (without the quotes) "w50 w51 w60 w61".
For 'Content Type (MIME)' enter (without the quotes) "application/wordperfect" (notice no spaces before or after the slash character! ).
Under the 'Actions' box, click "New".
For 'Action' enter (without the quotes) "open".
For 'Application Used' click on the 'Browse' button and browse to the location of your "winword.exe" program. Double click "winword.exe".
Don't bother clicking the DDE check box. I'm not sure how to use this, but mine isn't checked. On the other hand if you're adventurous and like to experiment ......
Click "OK" to exit that panel, then click "Close" to exit the next panel, and finally click "Close" to exit the "options" panel.
Now you have to define this new "file association" to your browser and you're done!
Finally ...
Now you should be able to go to SEDAR and click on any document and it should work. Try this out and let me know how you made out. Good luck!
Cheers,
Richard |
