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Re: Puzzled: OLE, RTFs & WordPerfect

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From: Greg
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 00:00
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The problem comes when openning the rtf file.  From my program, I'm using
the ole doverb command to automatically open the document in, I was
assuming, the default program for handling .rtf's.

Greg
Paul Bonenfant wrote in message ...
>Consider trying the WebBrowser control as document container instead of the
>OLE control.  It is much better behaved.
>
>Greg wrote in message ...
>>I have a user on NT4.  He has rich text format (rtf) files set up to open
>>under
>>WordPerfect in Explorer, File Types.
>>
>>But from my VB program, with an OLE control, the rtf files open in
WordPad.
>>
>>If he opens the file directly from explorer, it opens correctly in
>>WordPerfect.
>>
>>Everything works fine on computers with Word instead of Wordperfect.
>>
>>I'm using vb4, 32-bit.  Any help is appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks, in advance.
>>
>>Greg
>>greg@monacoassociates.com
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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From: "Greg" <ma@monacoassociates.com>
Subject: Re: Puzzled:  OLE, RTFs & WordPerfect
Date: 1999/09/08
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