MSWord is not really a server side tool, and you can easily hang your server
by leaving too many instances open. That said, someone has kindly provided
an excellent tuorial on doing it....
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/wordapplication.asp
A better approach might be to create RTF files or HTML files, which are just
text really, and pass them with a .DOC extension. Word is clever enough to
usually open them in the correct way and convert them for you at the client
side - of course you will need to test this.
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Regards
John Timney (Microsoft ASP.NET MVP)
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I want to start msWord on the server with an a givene file
(.doc), customize the file (update it) then display it on
the client machine -- all this on intranet using asp.net.
I know it's doable with some javascript using ActiveX --
is anyone aware for another way to do it