Word Automation/Web Browser Control

Hi. I am having strange problems with opening Word documents while using the Web Browser control in my vb6 app. I use appwd.WordBasic.fileopen docname to open Word documents. The document should open in Word but instead I get the Internet Explorer Open dialog - "Type the Internet address of a document, and Internet Explorer will open it for you". The only thing I can think of is that I have a Web Browser control on one of my screens with a document open inside it and that this is interfering somehow. I want to use a mix of opening letters inside the Web Browser and opening in Word. Please help!

unless you are using word 95 or older i would suggest avoiding the use of wordbasic, change to vba
set doc = appwd.documents.open(docname)
this may not resolve your current issue, would need to see more of your code, can you post a sample form that demonstrates this problem

I tried using set doc = appwd.documents.open(docname) but still got the Internet Explorer Open dialog popping up. I can't really send a sample form as it is a large complex project. Does anyone know why IE Open dialog would be invoked when opening a Word doc? I am assuming my Web Browser control has hijacked my instance of Word somehow.

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I can't really send a sample form as it is a large complex project.

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that is why i asked for a sample form, not one from your project
create a new project, add webbrower to form, test to see what happens when opening word document, in similar code