It works in Netscape too, provided you have Word installed on the PC. When
you "open" a Word document (via the link). Word starts when clicking on the
link. 

However, it will take some time for Word to start and the document to appear
on the screen, therefore you ought to advise the user to save the document
on their hard disc before opening the document.

Regards
Marie

Ray wrote...
As I understand it, this only works in MS Internet Explorer, and only if you
already have Word (or a Word reader) on your computer.   Won't work in
Netscape, as I understand it.


----- Original Message -----
From: <Johnst(at)memo.acehardware.com>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>; <hwg-software(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 3:49 PM
Subject: Manuals created in Word - Posting on the Web


From: Johnst(at)memo.acehardware.com
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:49:05 -0600
Subject: Manuals created in Word - Posting on the Web

Hi. I sent an e-mail earlier today stating that I am working on converting a
manual that was created in Word 97 (using a template, styles, & autotext)
over to HTML.  If I save the document as an HTML file and open it in
FrontPage 2000, the format is very garbled.  Extra tags are listed along
with a great deal of empty space/lines.

I was looking at a website where one of their links opens a word document
(saved in doc format) instead of an HTML document.  For an example, click:
http://www.stc.org/region4/chi/www/pub/index.shtml
<http://www.stc.org/region4/chi/www/pub/index.shtml> .  Navigate to the
bottom where it says, "October Issue" and click on the link.  Instead of
being in HTML format, the link is a Word document.

I tested linking my FrontPage file to one of my manuals created via Word
(still saved as a doc extension) & everything worked.  Has anyone done this
before or ran across any problem doing this.  Thanks.

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