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> We have some doc mgt "lite" on our site. I basically have a window with
> a button that opens the relevant document (Excel, PDF, etc.). The
> button calls some javascript which basically performs a window open:
>
> window.open('document.asp?item=' + intDoc,'_self', '');
>
> I use '_self' so that the document.asp itself does not open a new
> browser. the document.asp file basically retrieves the path and
> displays the document via the ADODB Stream object:
>
> select case vType
> Case "DOC", "RTF"
> Response.ContentType = "application/x-msword"
> Case "PDF"
> Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"
> Case "XLS", "CSV"
> Response.ContentType = "application/x-msexcel"
> end select
>
> set objStream = server.CreateObject("ADODB.Stream")
> objStream.Open
> objStream.Type = adTypeBinary
> objStream.LoadFromFile strFile
>
> Response.BinaryWrite objStream.Read
>
> For me and most every user, when we click the button on the original
> page, we first get the "File Download" pop-up and then - assuming you
> click Open - the document opens in a new window: Adobe for PDFs, Excel
> for excel docs, etc. For one user, documents are not opening in a new
> window, but rather in the original frame where the document button is
> located.
>
> Does anyone know if this is a browser setting? something I can control
> in my code? This particular user is using IE 6 and Excel 2003 and Adobe
> Reader 6.0.
> Thanks!