Linking to Word .DOT files

[Greg Smith]

I am creating an intranet web using FrontPage for our
company. I would like to place a link on a web page which
will open a standard office form which was created as a
Microsoft Word template (.dot file). Currently as I have
it set up the link will open the dot file within Word but
will not allow me to save as a doc. The only option is to
save it as a dot. The link is only valuable if the user
can input data into the template and save it as a separate
document.

Anyone having any experience with this your help would be
appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

You need to either use .hta
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnie50/html/ie5hta.asp
Or set your server / user PCs to open the links in their MSO application
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=162059

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| I am creating an intranet web using FrontPage for our
| company. I would like to place a link on a web page which
| will open a standard office form which was created as a
| Microsoft Word template (.dot file). Currently as I have
| it set up the link will open the dot file within Word but
| will not allow me to save as a doc. The only option is to
| save it as a dot. The link is only valuable if the user
| can input data into the template and save it as a separate
| document.
|
| Anyone having any experience with this your help would be
| appreciated.
|
| Thanks