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We have Exchange 2000 on a Windows 2000 server and would like to make Word and Excel files available via OWA. Can someone tell me if I can publish a folder with these files in it to Public Folders in Exchange so someone could access them thru OWA.If so how? Or do I need to look at WebDAV which seems very complicated?

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by curlergirl

You can publish documents to a public folder in two ways, that I know of:

1. From the folder, you can select New/Post, and then insert the file into the message as an attachment.

2. You can open the document in Word, then click File/Send to/Exchange Folder, and then select the correct public folder to post the document.

These show up in slightly different ways - using the File/Send to option makes it easier for the user because they can just double-click the message and it opens the doc right away, rather than having to open a posted message and then double click the attachment. However, if you want to group docs together, the attachment method might be easier.

This is the way it works with Word 2000/2002 anyway. I'm not sure about previous versions.

If you want a file structure with folders and subfolders, you have to manually create the structure and then post the docs to the correct folders.

Hope this helps!

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