First we create a new HTML file and write a FileUpLoad and a button control.

The code is as follows:

<input id="flUpload" type="file" />fileUpload
<input id="btnOpenFile" type="button" value="button" onclick="OpenFile()" />

Then, write a javascript OpenFile method.

The code is as follows:

function OpenFile()
{
if (document.getElementById("flUpload").value.toUpperCase().indexOf(".XLS") != -1)
{
var objExcel;
objExcel = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application");
objExcel.Visible = true;
objExcel.Workbooks.Open(document.getElementById("flUpload").value);
}
else if (document.getElementById("flUpload").value.toUpperCase().indexOf(".DOC") != -1)
{
var objDoc;
objDoc = new ActiveXObject("Word.Application");
objDoc.Visible = true;
objDoc.Documents.Open(document.getElementById("fileUpload").value);
}
else
{
alert("Please select Word/Excel file only");
return false;
}
}

OK. Then you can select a word document in IE and click open to open the word document successfully. Is not very simple, seems to be only used in IE.