Thanks Bob. I've seen that article before and thought that would be
solution, however it only works when the client viewing the page containing
the link has access to the file via a file system or UNC path. If the
shortcut to the .dot file is created on a web server (for instance
c:\InetPub\wwwroot\test\mytemplate.dot.lnk pointing to
c:\InetPub\wwwroot\test\mytemplate.dot), then the shortcut will ONLY work on
that web server, not on another PC trying to access the shortcut from
http://webserver/test/mytemplate.dot.lnk.

Eric

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi Eric,

It takes a little 'passthrough' trickery
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278627/en-us?FR=1

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"Eric Legault [MVP - Outlook]" wrote in message
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Is there a way using client/server script or VBA to have a user click a
hyperlink to a .dot file stored on a web server and have a document created
based on that template?
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
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