> Colleagues,
>
> while it's feasable/doable/whatever-able :-0 to do the MS Office Automation by the means of DDE/DDL/OLE, I am curious if there is some universal ActiveX all-doc-types viewer? I mean - just drop such ActiveX control on your form - and it can show DOC, XLS, PPS, BMP/WMF/JPG, MSG, etc., files one can create and/or modify with MS Office suite?
>
> Regards,
>
> Ilya

Did you try Shell.Explorer/MS WebBrowser, or MS Office Document Viewer Controls?

Best Wishes,

Yuri Rubinov