Launching Word Templates from Web Site

[Earl Young]

     There is a very low probability that you can get a Word template to 
     launch within a browser without making lots of changes to both 
     programs.  I have not reviewed all the engineering on the topic, but 
     Microsoft and a number of others have written HTML and Web-related 
     filters for Word, and I do not imagine they would have bothered if it 
     could be done with existing point-and-click.  What are you trying to 
     accomplish?  What features of the documents do you wish to use?


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Subject: Launching Word Templates from Web Site
Author:  ttripp at inforamp.net at INTERNET
Date:    5/12/97 9:42 PM


Just curious if anyone knows if this can be done.  My intranet server 
adminstrator is away, and since the server is in Montreal I can't test 
this myself.  
     
I'm wondering if so-called "smart" forms created as word template files 
(*.dot) can be placed on a web server and launched properly by a local 
copy of Word.  Will simply making the appropriate file association on 
the server (and in the browser) allow this to happen as it does with 
regular documents?  Has anyone done this successfully?
     
Thanks for the help,
     
Tim
     
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