title: Using Office Web Apps, Can you open a document via webdav?
body: <p>We're in the process of converting a legacy desktop application into a web enabled equivalent.</p>
  
  <p>However one feature is causing difficulty, editing MS Word documents.</p>
  
  <p>Current proposed solution is publishing the DOC and DOCX files via WebDAV and using a custom ActiveX component to launch WinWord and pointing it at a file via a URL.</p>
  
  <p>This works but it's limited in scope and the worlds moved on since it was conceived.</p>
  
  <p>Is is possible to use the new Office Web Apps to do this completely in-browser?</p>
  
  <p>So, still publish DOC files via WebDAV, but only to a web server hosting the Office Web Apps and redirecting the user to a URL rather than launching a local windows exe via activex.</p>
  
  <p>Can you do this with the new Office Web Apps?
  Where is the documentation on how to achieve this?</p>