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I have IE 11 on Win 7 — yes, I live dangerously.

I have a Web form, like this.

I click Browse... and I choose a Word document. I don't even send the form.

The process WINWORD.EXE starts, and I get — twice — a stupid error message about Word unable to do whatever...

Why does that happen ? What kind of intrusion is that ?

It must be one “specialty” of IE on Window$. What is IE trying to do here ?

Bonus question : How to get rid of this “feature” ?

I have Office Pro Plus 2010, and my file has the suffix .doc.

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I have found the cause.

I tested with Firefox :

  1. The process WINWORD.EXE does get briefly launched.
  2. But, strangely, I don't get any error message.

The cause of the behaviour is in the file choosing dialog, it is the preview pane on the right.

When I remove the preview pane in the dialog before clicking on my file, the problem disappears. But when I change folder in the dialog, the preview pane comes back, this is annoying.

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