Let's suppose you want to display Word documents within a SharePoint web page. Here's one possible solution that uses IFrames to accomplish this.
First of all, add a Content Editor Web Part to the central zone on the web page, and insert the following source code to create an IFrame on the page. Note that we give the IFrame a name of "WordViewer".
Now, we need to create a document library where we want the documents to be displayed in this iframe. Do this is the normal way, going to Create > Document Library. I then uploaded a few documents to the library.
Then create a new standard view (I called mine "Document Summary") as follows:
What we're doing here is basically removing a few of the columns to slim it down a bit, so that it can be displayed in the right web part zone on the page.
Now you need to add this document library to the page using Modify Shared Web Page > Add Web Part and browse for the name of the document library you create. You will then need to modify the document library web part to display the view that we created as follows:
Once you've done this, the documents should be displayed on the page. Now what we need to do is tell the page to open these documents in the IFrame we created. To do this, open the page in FrontPage 2003 and right click on the Web Part and select "Convert to XSLT Data View".
This makes the web part more customizable. right-click on a link within that web part, and this time you should see "Hyperlink Properties".
Click "Target Frame" and choose "WordViewer".
Now, when you open your SharePoint web page again, when you click on these documents, you should be able to view them embedded into the web page.
NB This article was "inspired" by reading Todd's article on how to embed Outlook (other than using the Outlook Web Access web part). To read this article, please see: