How Do I Avoid Ie Stripping Macros Out Of .dot

[tcstom]

Hi, not sure if this is the place to ask this but I've tried everywhere. We are trying to make some Word doc templates (.dot) available on our intranet (available through a hyperlink), but IE seems to strip out their macros. This even happens when right-clicking and saving the target. The saved version does not run its macros. I have found a vague workaround by making the hyperlink run a VBScript file which opens the .dot direct from a shared drive in Word itself, but this isn't ideal because many of our users cannot access this shared drive. If anyone can suggest a solution I'd appreciate it.

[dman]

Are you sure the macro isn't being disabled by a firewall content filter?

[pungohboy]

I am having the same problem. I was wondering if there was any resolution to the issue. From what I can tell for whatever reason when you click the filename.dot likn it tries to open it as a .doc file. If you save it, it also tries to use the .doc extension. I am trying to get my intranet available for use and ran into this road block. If anyone knows a way to get .dot files to open as .dot files from IE please let me know.

Edit: I had a co worker try to open the file with Firefox and it allowed word to open and the macro to run no problems. I have my word set to not run inside IE also.

Any help would be great

Edited June 21, 2005 by pungohboy