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Asked: 2026-06-06T04:00:06+00:00

Here is the case. User should be able to open MS Word document which

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Here is the case.

User should be able to open MS Word document which is located somewhere in the network (ie. \remote\machine\documents\document_to_edit.docx) with MS Word 2007 by clicking link in the browser. Browser is IE7+.

Edit the document, close it and save it (no “Save as…” just “Save”) in the same place in the network (\remote\machine\documents\document_to_edit.docx)

Is that at all possible? If so how should I do that?

Don’t think this is relative, but I’m using JAVA + Wicket for my web application.

EDIT:
Any suggestions are welcome.
Main thing is – open file as it was on your computer and save it after edit.

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  1. Editorial Team

    (Read update below)

    Short answer: not possible.

    Long answer: When you open anything from a browser, even some local file, it will open the given file from the browser cache (or some temporary download directory) but not the original file linked. Therefore, after you save the changes the copied file will be updated.

    Added:

    Ok, after I thought about it for a while, there could be some ways to do it in intranet application. Here’s how: Java applet: run native code from browser?

    So, basically, you will serve the applet which will communicate with your javascript (I guess this way would be easiest to implement) (info on how to do it) and send a network path to the applet. Applet will start winword.exe passing it the required parameters.

    Or, there’s another option with ActiveX: http://codereflex.net/how-to-run-exe-on-webpage/ . The downside is – it works only with IE, but that seems what you need anyway.

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