About the Associated Application Document Window

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þ Enterprise þProfessional þ Personal þ Small Business

 

 

The Associated Application Document Window contains two panes, Document Information and Document Preview.

 

The Associated Application Document Window

 

The Document Information Window:

The Document Preview Window

DocuXplorer uses six different technologies to view Word, Excel, Pdf, Email, html and OLE content. In addition DX can read and write native Word and Excel files.

 

 

 

 

The browser viewer uses the operating system's Internet Explorer technology to display documents. If a document can be displayed in Internet Explorer then the document can be displayed in the DocuXplorer Associated Application Preview Pane. The right-click menu in the preview pane will display functions that can be performed based on the document's native application. The ability to save any modifications made in the preview pane will depend on the native application.  

right-click menu displayed in preview pane will depend on document's native application


When adding an associated application document to DocuXplorer an Internet Explorer dialog box may appear that asks if you would like to open or save the document. Choose Open to preview the document in the Preview Pane.

                                               File Download dialog box - choose to Open the document

 

Unchecking the "Always ask before opening this type of file" will allow the file type to automatically open the Preview Pane, it will also automatically open documents of this file type encountered on web site using Internet Explorer. It is recommended that if you often view a file type in DocuXplorer that you select to Open the file type and uncheck the Ask always box to more easily add documents of the file type to DocuXplorer.

Some file types can not be displayed using Internet Explorer. When a document is added to your Library where the file type can not be displayed the Document Window will instead display an icon representing the document's native program.

 

Tip:

File types from programs that do not display in a browser should be removed from the file extension list found in Tools/Options/Document Defaults. Check with the file type's original program for compatibility when attempting to view a file in a browser.

For example, in Adobe Acrobat you will need to set the program to allow display of a PDF in a browser. To set Acrobat to display PDF in a browser see Troubleshooting/PDF does not display in document viewer.