> Colleagues,
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> 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

the internet explorer control (browser) is indeed an universal browser with its method navigate.
The problem is that since office 2007 it opens these documents (word,excel,powerpoint,...) in separated window instead to open it inthe browser control.

this also is not avoided in activeX as:
universal browser (http://www.uvviewsoft.com/ available at download -free ).
This last is very usefull.

I go to amaze you if i say you can use shellexecute to open any file (but with its associated application) :-)

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Yousfi Benameur