Internet Assistant Does Not Support URL as Startup Document

ID: Q128177

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Assistant for Word, version 1.0
Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0a, 6.0c

SYMPTOM

You receive the following error message when you choose Browse Web from the File menu:

   Microsoft Word Err=1078
   This file could not be found. (C:\WINWORD\DEFAULT.DOC)

CAUSE

There are two reasons for this message:

You have a URL as your default document. Internet Assistant does not currently support setting a URL as the default document.
The default local document (DEFAULT.DOC) cannot be found.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Internet Assistant version 1.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

RESOLUTION

Using a text editor such as Notepad, edit the WORDHTML.INI file so that the startup document in the [MISC] section uses the DEFAULT.DOC file. Your setting might look like this:

   [MISC]
   startdoc=c:\winword\internet\default.doc

KBCategory: kbusage kberrmsg buglist1.0 KBSubcategory: Additional query words: 6.0a 6.0c winword 1.0 iaword internet ia html word6 assistant default.doc error message errmsg

Keywords          : kbwdinternet 
Version           : 6.0a 6.0c
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: February 6, 1998