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Stop Microsoft execl and word from opening IN firefox

mechman29
mechman29
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Hello everyone,

I hope you can help, because I've been searching forever. How can i prevent Microsoft Excel and Word from opening IN Firefox? The action I would like is to have it open in it's respective program and NOT have to hit the "Edit" button.

I'm using Firefox 54.0 (64-bit).

I have set the default action to open in excel in the option menu, yet it still uses firefox.

Thanks. Not sure what to do now.

Hello everyone, I hope you can help, because I've been searching forever. How can i prevent Microsoft Excel and Word from opening IN Firefox? The action I would like is to have it open in it's respective program and NOT have to hit the "Edit" button. I'm using Firefox 54.0 (64-bit). I have set the default action to open in excel in the option menu, yet it still uses firefox. Thanks. Not sure what to do now.

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Paul
Paul
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Hi

There are two settings you may need to change:

  1. In the Windows Control Panel, there will be a menu that sets application preferences for the operating system.
  2. In Firefox, type about:preferences into the address bar - about halfway down the list are the options to set for various file types Firefox may encounter. Change the options for Word and Excel file types
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Firefox can't display XLS/XLSX or DOC/DOCX content on its own. The website might be converting them to an HTML version of the document to show them in a tab. Perhaps the site has a way to bypass that so they are handled as downloads instead.