I'm having a real issue with displaying the MS Word status bar in IE. I've been playing around with Word for a while, but maybe there is something in IE I can do instead. Are there keyboard events I can CAPTURE in IE using API or something? Look at this following discussion I've been in so you can understand my issue better:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.word.vba.general&mid=7c84df5f-de4f-4119-ac3c-cb9b8ed0afb6

Somehow I need to resolve this issue, so if there is something I can do in IE I would LIKE to try it.

Thanks for your time and help!

BrendaCan explain further what you want to do? It sure doesn't make sense to me. You want to see the Word StatusBar in IE? Is that right? Hmmm, how about putting an Excel StatusBar in IE? And, then maybe we can PUT an Excel StatusBar in Word. And, hey, then we'll ALSO put a Word StatusBar in Excel.

But, wait a minute. Word is Word. Excel is Excel. IE is IE. Etc, etc. Where does this notion of putting a StatusBar a for particular application in another application come from? What's the point of it?OK, try this. Create a simple Word Document. And you see the Status Bar the displays line #, column #, etc...right? Well, save this Word Document and then open up IE and drag and drop this Word Document into IE. Tell me if you still see the Status Bar from Word. I don't. Any work around?

And here is the link again:http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.word.vba.general∣=7c84df5f-de4f-4119-ac3c-cb9b8ed0afb6 I don't think it worked last time.Your link worked last time. I read through the discussion there. I'm still wondering what the point of this is. Why drag a Word document into an IE window? WHY?

Yes, I can drag a Word file into IE but, just as you say, there is no Word status bar there. I do not know of any work around.brendita....... I have read your post and checked out the post that you linked to........ However , like soybean , I am unable to figure out why you would want a MS word toolbar in the Internet explorer ...... If you have M/S Internet Explorer open and want to view something that you have created or saved in word FORMAT....... why wouldn't you simply click on the file button in IE ....then open and then choose browse ....... and presto there it is .......
Have I missed something ??

dl65 Sorry, I guess I haven't made myself very clear. What I am doing is using VSTO(http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/vsto/default.aspx) and displaying it in IE with an Intranet. Does that make a little bit more sense now on what I am trying to accomplish?Yes, that gives a little clearer picture. But, I'm not familiar with VSTO and still do not have a very clear understanding of why you want a Word StatusBar to appear within an IE window and, therefore, really can't offer any suggestions. You got numerous replies in the MSDN Newsgroups discussion you mentioned earlier, and I noticed some of those replies came from persons with the MVP rating. I'm inclined to think you've probably got as much expert response to this question as you're going to get.

I do see there's a newsgroup named microsoft.public.vsnet.vstools.office. Perhaps that would be another place to ask your question. Soybean

I was just hoping maybe there was something in IE that no one had thought of yet, but I guess I was wrong. Thanks for your time!