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Where abouts is the word document located... and how do you want it displayed to the user?
If it's on your server and you want it to be opened in a browser window:
Would do the trick.
If you want to load a file from the user's system or explicitly in Microsoft word (not word in the browser) then it gets trickier and you'd need to be working in a tightly controlled (intranet) environment.
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If it's on your server and you want it to be opened in a browser window:
Code:
window.open('/somepath/somefile.doc');If you want to load a file from the user's system or explicitly in Microsoft word (not word in the browser) then it gets trickier and you'd need to be working in a tightly controlled (intranet) environment.
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try :
<body onload="document.location='c:\mydoc.doc'">
Although depending on how your browser is configured, this could open in the browser window / open in word etc, check your MIME type settings. If you use this on the web, then you are likely to have little / no control over how the data is presented to an end user - especially those without word ;-)
<body onload="document.location='c:\mydoc.doc'">
Although depending on how your browser is configured, this could open in the browser window / open in word etc, check your MIME type settings. If you use this on the web, then you are likely to have little / no control over how the data is presented to an end user - especially those without word ;-)
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