Open ms word/excel applications without using activeXObject for cross browser

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function OpenFile(){
alert ('Work');
//would like to modify ActiveXObject with any other object for cross-browser.
var x = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
x.run('winword.exe');
}
//Above code works only in IE. But don't want to use activeXObject.
//Is there any possibility to open a word file in Internet Explorer
//without using activexobject. Request for a solution.

Posted 12-Oct-13 2:14am

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Ehsan Skardu · Answer 1 · 2013-10-12T07:28:00

I have tried this sometime back but then this is not actually that easy, there is whole set of functionality that comes up with an application like Excel/Word.

Ultimately displaying excel or word on client machine is a mess, I tried and got stuck in executing macros.

There is nothing to my knowledge that would allow word/excel to be given in all the browser, even AcitveX objects wont let you use most of the functionality.

Try find some other solution if possible, I has to display a PremiumCalculator excel in webpage instead of letting people download the same, I went ahead and created a PremiumCalculator in asp.net, instead of displaying the existing sheet in web browser.