Launch doc file with javascript in Chrome

You can enter a file URL like file:///C:/path/to/file.txt but the behaviour would change depending on where that's pointing to:

• If it's a directory, it will show its content in Chrome.
• If it's a know media type (images, audio, video, pdf, ...) it will play/display in Chrome in the usual way.
• If it's an unknown media type, like a Word document, it will just trigger a download.

If the file you want to open is not in the local file system but hosted somewhere, you can should check the Office URI Schemes documentation. You would end up with something like this:

ms-word:ofe|u|http://website.com/document.docx

The full schema is:

< scheme-name >:< command-name >"|"< command-argument-descriptor > "|"< command-argument >

The first part is the scheme name (protocol), which is specific for each Office product:

• ms-word
• ms-powerpoint
• ms-excel
• ms-visio
• ms-access
• ms-project
• ms-publisher
• ms-spd
• ms-infopath

The second part is the command name and its arguments (pars for argument descriptor + argument value), all separated with |:

• ofv|u| (open for view), followed by the URI to open in view mode.
• ofe|u| (open for edit), followed by the URI to open in edit mode.

• nft|u| (new document from template), followed by the URI to the template.

  Optionally, you can add a second argument, s, with the URI of the folder where you want to save it, so it will end up looking like this:

  ms-word:nft|u|http://website.com/template.dotx|s|https://website/docs