Open External File form Web Page

[ecugrad]

I have an external Word file on a group drive that we want to link to from our web page. We need the file to open in Word because we have code in the Word document. How would I like this file from our page to open it. We are using Explorer 6.0 and Word 2003

Thanks for any and all help

 

[ca8msm]

Just include the full path to the file (e.g. \\servername\share\myfile.doc) in the href of an anchor tag.

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[ca8msm]

Bear in mind this will only be accessible to those people who can access that drive from their machine. If you want to open it up to other people you may have to use a server-side language to retrieve and stream the content to the client.

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[traingamer]

You can try :

<a href="L:\WordDirectory\Document.doc" target="_blank">Document Description</a>

Greg
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[EdwardMartinIII]

Are you not able to copy the file to your http directories?

Edward

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