Configuring an HTML Viewer for SharePoint 2003
Microsoft offers an application that can enable SharePoint 2003 site visitors to view standard Office files without having the actual applications loaded on their workstations. This requires that one or more systems be configured and made available to the SharePoint 2003 environment for this purpose. The standard file types supported by this service are .doc, .xls, .ppt, and .pps. The HTML Viewer Service does not allow anonymous users to view documents in HTML, so it is required to configure the SharePoint server to not allow anonymous access and have accounts for all users who will be using the HTML viewing service.
The HTML Viewing software can be downloaded from Microsoft and is available from ...
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