Hi folks,

We have complex manuals that tell clients how to fill out the forms needed for an international adoption. For the first time we went digital with a manual, saving a couple of trees in the process. We put it together like a website, and just email the folders to our clients.

It is pretty simple, the client clicks on the index.html file. It opens up a table of contents. They click on one of 8 sections. That takes them to an html document with instructions on how to fill out each type of form. Then there are buttons that open the forms. The forms are all Word documents that use the Forms option, so the clients can just type in their name, address, birthdate, etc. They hit print, and can mail off their form.

All of the machines in our shop are XP. I sent the first copy of this to a Vista user. The manual/local website opened right up. When she tried to click on a button to open a word document it told her that her security settings were wrong.

Why on earth is vista objecting to a hyperlink from one file on the hard drive to a Word file in a different folder on the same hard drive? I want to put this together so that Vista users can just have it open up and run.

We used Office 2003 to put this together, including FrontPage (Hey, it was easy, no grousing, I know it makes the html fat) and Word.

Any suggestions?

Dave