In our office we use IE7 and Office 2010. Our OS is XP SP3. My copy of IE has an option on the FILE menu to "Edit with Microsoft Word". This allows us to create PDF documents with WORD while not requiring each user to have an Acrobat License since Word will create a PDF.

One of my coworker's menu item doesn't access WORD, but rather Excel. We need to set it for WORD but I stumped as to how. I've checked file associations in Windows and also set the HTML editor to Microsoft Word on the Programs Tab under the Options item on the Tools menu. My co-worker tells me that at one time the "Word" option was available on the FILE menu.

Any ideas? Thanks

Jmconnor,

Greetings. Open IE and go to Tools => Internet Options. Click on the Programs tab. In the HTML editor dropdown box, select MS Word. Click Apply, close IE, re-open IE and "Edit with MS Word" should appear under File.


AvgJoe

Thanks for the suggestion, but that's already been done to no avail.

"OK", how 'bout this -

Open Windows Explorer => Tools => Folder Options => Files Type tab. Scroll down till you find the .docx (or .doc) extension (MS Office 2010 Word Document). Click on the "Advanced" button. Check/uncheck "Browse in same window" and click "OK."

AvgJoe

Should the box be checked or unchecked? On my machine it's not checked and mine works fine. On my co-worker's machine the box is also unchecked but it doesn't work. I checked the box for her and it doesn't work that way also. The FILE menu item still refers to Excel.

Jmconnor,

Well, I'm at a loss. Maybe this link holds the answer - MS Support - Launch Word from IE

FYI - here's how I searched for the issue you're experiencing - "Internet Explorer" + "MS Word" (include the double quotes and the plus sign)


AvgJoe