WebBrowser - Word Documents

[Kenny62]

I'm using the WebBrowser control to open Word, Excel files. I want the loaded documents to be in a "read only" mode. However, the WebBrowser allows edits, context menus, etc. I've tried SubClassing the control, but have determined that this is impossible thru normal methods. Any ideas.

Note: If i set the word document to readonly - users can still modify the view on screen - cut and paste etc. Also if the document has textboxes and the user clicks on thes items a floating toolbar is displayed - most annoying!

Thanks for any help in advance, Ken.

 

[chrissie1]

I think the user can still edit them but that will be a local version for them not the version on the server. So I don't really see a problem. If you want to make things readonly then I would use pdf wich was designed for this sort of things.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

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[Kenny62]

Surely there must be a way to use word in a read only mode in a web browser control. (I have to make do with what i have installed - which is word 2002...I'm not keen on converting thousands of documents to pdf format!). Any other ideas. Thanks, Ken.

 

[ThatRickGuy]

PDF conversions can be automated. To make the file being viewed as readonly it might take some work. If you are opening the file from a network share, you should be able to just set that file's attributes to read only (rightclick->properties->read only). If you are downloading the file locally or hosting the file on a web server, you will have to find the local copy of the file and make it read only. Which can be done (the read only part) but I have not idea how to track down one doc in the inet cache.
Even making the file read only will not prevent the user from modifying what they see, they just can't save it back to that file. To make it so that the user can not modify anything, converting to PDF is the best answer.

-Rick

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[chrissie1]

Yep, and one of these days I will actually answer one just not today,, sorry.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

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