I am still running into a problem trying to place a click box to access MSWord from my Web Site?

Question

I am trying to access MS Word stored on the local hard drive of most systems, another words, if you are on my web site and would like to write a document, how would I go about having a "Click" area where the person (assuming they have MS Word) on their system, can click the box, open a new document for writing whatever, save it to their hard drive or flash drive, and return to my web site. My main problem is getting MS Word to open up. Any explainations on how to do this would be great. I have tired .exe statements and so on ..\MSOffice\MSword.exe with no luck so far. Microsoft drives me up a wall!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

This is not a fault of Microsoft!

You cannot link to files on the clients unless the user links the files to your browser using a file field in a form!!

The only way to make this work is to install word onto your domain and then launch that for the user. Licence rules may apply.

You cannot guarantee where a user has installed Word so you cannot just launch word on a client machine.

Answer 2

You can do what the first poster said, or simply just save a blank .doc file to your server and create a link to that. Then, Word opens with a blank document to use.

Answer 3

You could upload and link to a Word doc on your website and write in it what you want them to do. When they click the link it will open Word on their computer to view the doc. They would read what you want them to do and could save it where ever afterwords.