Microsoft KB Archive/229377

= OFF2000: HTML File Always Opens in Last Office Program That Edited It =

Article ID: 229377

Article Last Modified on 11/25/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q229377



SYMPTOMS
When you edit an HTML file in one of the programs listed at the beginning of this article and try to open it in another one of the listed programs, the HTML file opens in the program that was previously used to edit it.



CAUSE
Each Office program inserts a meta tag into the HTML file when it is saved. For example, if you save an HTML document in Word, the meta tag looks similar to the following:



This is what causes Excel or PowerPoint to start Word when you try to open the HTML file in either one of them.



WORKAROUND
It is possible to open the HTML file in a different program than the one that last edited it. To do this, follow these steps:


 * 1) Start the program in which you want to open the HTML file.
 * 2) On the File menu, click Open.
 * 3) Locate and select the HTML document you want to open.
 * 4) Click on the down arrow to the right of Open in the lower right corner of the Open dialog box.
 * 5) Click Open in , where  is the name of the Office 2000 program in which you want to open the HTML file.

NOTE: When you open an HTML document using the previous steps in either Word or PowerPoint, you will only be able to save the file using a name different than the original HTML file. This is because the file is opened read-only in Word or PowerPoint.



MORE INFORMATION
The following table lists the meta tags created by the Office programs when you save a document in HTML format. Program             Meta Tag -

Excel          PowerPoint     Word          

