wrote:
>I'm using a non-toolbared web page to act like a file launcher. I need
>it to behave like most commercial cd-rom autorun menus, where when you
>click a link to do something, like say open a readme file, the file
>opens in notepad or whatever the associated program may be. I am trying
>to use this web page as a menu to open several office files (publisher
>and excel files) so that they are not buried in hard to find
>directories. The files will be located locally on the same machine's
>hard drive. I was hoping instead of buying an autorun menu program i
>could figure out a way to do this in html or javascript. thanks for any
>help.
Just link to the files normally.
<a href="foo.doc">Word Document</a>
The file will open in Word so long as the user's browser is configured
to automatically open Word documents in Word. If the user's browser
isn't configured like that then there's nothing you as an author can
do about it, so on the WWW that would be the end of the story. But as
it sounds like you're making this feature for your own personal use
only it should be easy for you to configure your browser to behave the
way you want it to.
Steve
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