Cetin, the webbrowser control works beautifully for me to open the Word documents. however i have three follow up questions.

1. how can i set it so that the document opened is read only? i don't see that setting.

2. is it possible to tell the Window opened not to show the Word ruler, toolbar, etc.?

3. lastly is there any way to "auto fit" such that the document opens in the window maximized. as it is right now i have to format the Word doc to the exact size of the window.

thanks,

vim