send as link

[Sean Murdoch]

Hi there,

I have written some vba and put it into normal.dot. When
a user wants to send a file to another internal user, they
press a tool bar icon and it creates an email message and
inserts the fullname and path for that word doc.

.HTMLBody = vbCrLf & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "<a
href=""file:///" & activedocument.FullName & """>" &
activedocument.FullName & "</a>"

My problem is, when the receiver clicks on the link, it
opens the word doc in I.E and not Winword.
How can I make it that the link opens the file in word
only ?
Thanks
Sean

[Peter]

Post by Sean Murdoch
Hi there,
I have written some vba and put it into normal.dot. When
a user wants to send a file to another internal user, they
press a tool bar icon and it creates an email message and
inserts the fullname and path for that word doc.
.HTMLBody = vbCrLf & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "<a
href=""file:///" & activedocument.FullName & """>" &
activedocument.FullName & "</a>"
My problem is, when the receiver clicks on the link, it
opens the word doc in I.E and not Winword.
How can I make it that the link opens the file in word
only ?
Thanks
Sean

Send it formatted like so: \\servername\foldername\documentname.doc. No anchor tags.
Any M$ e-mail client (and possibly others) should automatically turn that into a link that will directly open the document.
This will work only on the LAN, not across the internet, but then the file:/// link has those restrictions as well.

hth,

-Peter

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thanks very much
Sean