Running MSWord from within IE

DavidJA · Apr 18, 2002

Hey all,

I need to start a copy of MSWord from JavaScript, opening a spacific document.

EG: I need to simulate the following
start winword.exe \\Fileserver2\documents\david\MyDoc.HTM, and have MS word open the document in read-write mode. (the HTM file is obviously not associated with word so simply going window.open('mydoc.doc') will not work.

Can anyone specify how to do this from within JavaScript. (it can be ie spacific).

Thanks!

mikey2nicey · Apr 24, 2002

Hi DavidJA,

Would you like to try the following:

Code:

<html>
<body>
<script language=&quot;javascript&quot;>
var objWord = new ActiveXObject(&quot;Word.Application&quot;);
if (objWord != null)
{
	objWord.Documents.open(&quot;\\Fileserver2\documents\david\MyDoc.HTM&quot;);
	objWord.visible = true;
}
</script> 
</body>
</html>

Hope this helps! [smile]

mikey2nicey
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Running MSWord from within IE

DavidJA

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