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I am designing an intranet here and would greatly appreciate any help on the following...
The company here has files stored on the server in excel and word documents that are to be viewed through IE on the shop floor, these documents may be changed from time to time on the server, some are password protected, and none are to be modified from the shop floor.
I have the excel files working (not the password protected ones), they come up in the browser window and can save changes if saved down to the local machine, the word files however I cannot seem to pull into the web browser, I have found pages on the net to pull from binary files to word within a web page and from databases to word in web pages but not for word files to word files in web pages. Is this possible to do?. Some of the word docs have tables etc which do not display right when the word doc is "saved as web page" so this option is out, also the guys here want the page to pull from the original "live" word doc and not to also have to save it as a web page when alterations are made.
Any help or links would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
Is it possible that the problem is caused by your computer having an earlier version of Word or something like that? Have you tried saving them as earlier Word docs or even as rtfs?
The html code produced by the the "save as web page" feature will make you eyes bug out. I would never use it. There are a couple of utilies around to clean it up, but why bother if your client has Word installed?
Thanks for the response, the two pc's I'm using to test this both have office 2002 installed and latest versions of IE, I can link to the files alright like you say, but the reason for trying to get them to open in to a web browser (and which I forgot to mention up above!) is that these files cannot be printed, I had wanted to include some javascript in the asp file being used to display the excel or word document within a web page that would prevent them from printing using onbeforeprint() and onafterprint() functions.
Does anyone know perhaps of another way to maybe just link to the files and still cut out printing of only these files and not all files from the computer?.
That should make it come up in IE.
..But just reading your post again...you want the content to come up inside the actual ASP page? or just for the document to come up in the Browser window?
