Hi Bob,

Yes I know what you mean. But what the client wants is what they want. I said in another post we'll probably recommend they convert any Office docs to PDF and store them that way. What we really need to do what they want would be to extract the Office docs to memory, display read-only and non-saveable (is that a word?) to the file system which would fix our problem. In my research the only way to get them out is to put them to a file system file and then open them in the matching app (Word, Excel etc). Anyway thanks for the input.

Cheers
Richard