>Now when I display an individual .doc in the browser object I had opened word and fetched the content and put a html header around and that works fine. But now I realized I could navigate to the .doc directly. But! Thereis a dialog asking if I want to open or save. Can I avoid that dialog?

There are optional logical parameters, either when opening to open read-only, or when closing to not save, but it seems you should only get a Save dialog if you changed the document. Bottom line is I'm not sure why you're getting the dialog in the first place.