OFF: Strange Result Using Quick View on Shortcut Bar Button

 Last reviewed: December 13, 1996
Article ID: Q130584
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Office 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft Office for Windows 95, version 7.0
  • Microsoft Access 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft Access version 7.0
  • Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0
  • Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
  • Microsoft Word for Windows 95, version 7.0

SYMPTOMS

Microsoft Windows 95 allows you to perform a Quick View of files on the desktop. If you perform this operation on one of the toolbar buttons on the Office Shortcut Bar pointing to an program, it will display a dialog box containing information about the program. If you then click Open For Editing on the File menu, the program is started. If you click Open File For Editing in the Quick View dialog box on the Start A New Document or Open A Document button, Office Help is started.

CAUSE

This behavior is by design for programs installed under Windows 95. The buttons on the toolbar are Windows 95 shortcuts to the program; the same behavior results when a Quick View is performed on an program shortcut.

MORE INFORMATION

When the Quick View option is selected, information about the executable file is displayed. For example, the first section appears as follows: 

   WINDOWS EXECUTABLE

   Technical File Information:

   Image File Header

                       Signature:   xxxxxxxx
                         Machine:   Intel 386
              Number of Sections:   xxxx
                 Time Date Stamp:   xxxxxxxx
                 Symbols Pointer:   xxxxxxxx
          Size of Optional Header   xxxx
                 Characteristics:   File is executable (i.e.
                                    no unresolved external
                                    references).
                                    Line numbers stripped from file.
                                    Local symbols stripped from file.
                                    32 bit word machine.
In the case of the Start A New Document or Open A Document buttons, the information displayed is for the Msow.exe file.

KBCategory: kbtool
KBSubcategory: offwin offosb
Additional reference words: 7.00 OSB ppt97 ppt95 8.00 97 ppt8 xl97 off97

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Last reviewed: December 13, 1996
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