MOSS 2007 We have tried to enable open in browser on a document library and .doc files still open in Word not IE. We did set the advances settings to display as a web page. Is there some other setup needed for this to work?

Hi Paul, Try saving as an html file first? I was unable to even get a .doc% file to open on a node that didn't have word installed. Intuitively you'd need to go through a word distiller to decode the file first...no matter what you tell sharepoint the node is going to look at it's file document type settings...not really my area of expertise, see if anyone else has a better solution? Best regards, S'

I guess, you need to turn off/disable the "Client Integration" option for your web application in SharePoint Central Administration. That way, your documents would open in the browser and not open by client applications(Word, Excel, PPT). Steps for disabling: Navigate to SharePoint Central Administration Web site Go to the Application Management page Under Application Security section, click Authentication providers. Click the zone that you want to modify authentication settings for. Check or uncheck based on your requirement for Office Client Integration. BTW, if you move on to FBA, by default your Client Integration option is disabled. Hope this helps!! BR, PM

Thanks for the feedback! My user want to have just one document library open this way. If I do it at the web app it would be for all under that web app. So having the user save as HTML might be my best choice.

You may consider Office Web App for SharePoint 2010 if you need to open Office documents in browser: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431685(office.14).aspx . Gu Yuming TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com

Thanks for the suggestions. Why do they have this option if it doesn't work? advanced settings to display as a web page

Hi Paul, Ahhh, well, could add some more comments here, but overall sharepoint and office are the most powerful things out there unless you want to code the whole thing from scratch. As GuYuming suggests, try sharepoint 2010 (that's what I'm doing tonight on a trial vmware server)...2007 assumes that if you want to open an office doc you have a viewer or office installed on the client. IE is just a browser. Unless you have the client installed it won't open a pdf or really most anything other than a standard web page. It will enable (with a little help from the OS) serving up the client. It would sort of obviate the licensing model under the office 2007 product suite. 2010 seems to enable serving office 2010 via web apps and sharepoint. or at least that's what the documentation says, will see if it works or not. Google is pressuring the other office suites to give away web apps...hence a new licensing model... Best of luck, S'

You may consider Office Web App for SharePoint 2010 if you need to open Office documents in browser: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff431685(office.14).aspx . Gu Yuming TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Why is this considered an answer to the question the original question specifically said MOSS 2007? Our company is not going to suddenly upgrade to 2010 so this isn't an option. The library settings give you a setting to open in browser and yet it doesn't work. Should the settings at the central admin point been open in browser and then select Client app in the individual libraries? Even the drop down menu in the library asks to "edit in Word/Excel et cetera" so the intent was to make this work. Anyone have any other ideas that might acutally answer the question that allows documents with a .docx (et cetera) file type open in browser? Thanks.