Hi Rafa,

I don't think you can do what you want to do as word documents need to be
hosted in an OLE container (the Internet Explorer_Server). Perhaps you could
change your architecture and have your menu as a floating popup that uses
window.helper (I think) to select the main window's location. Alternatively,
load your navigation menu into Internet Explorers Search Explorer Bar (
window.open(MyMenu.htm, "_search")) ie. Put a Show Menu button on your Home
Page.
You may also get some ideas by looking at the Discussion Explorer Bar that
comes with MS Office. Hope this helps. Others may be more informed than I.

"Rafa Sánchez" <Rafa Snchez@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello:
>
> I have created a site with a vertical navigation frame on the left and a
> content frame in the middle of the screen. Some of the links point to Word
> documents but I dont know how to accomplish this, as links to .PDF
documents,
> for example, work fine. Even links to XLS documents are correctly
displayed
> in the content frame (after confirming file download, which is ok for my
> users), but I need help on how to make Word documents behave the same
(after
> confirming file download, a new instance of Word is opened).
>
> Second part of the question: how can I make the Standard toolbar to be
> visible either in Word or Excel documents loaded into the content frame?
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
>
> Rafa