How to create a HTML link which forces MS Word to edit document on webdav server

Question

Let\'s suppose that I have WebDAV-enabled server, where I have bunch of Office documents. I\'d like to generate webpage which has link to document such that clicking on the

Answer 1

Ummm, you could also use something like this:

Open Document in Word

The difference from the above answers is that this would no longer require ActiveX and it will work at least in IE 8+, Chrome and Firefox, as long as it is opened from a Windows machine, for Office 2010+ (not 100% sure about this one though).

Explanation: the ms-word:ofe part is a protocol that gets installed on the client machine when Office is installed. I don't know exactly what the |u| part does.