I am supposed to create a frames based page where the left frame shows the
table of contents with sections that drop down, when clicked, and show sub
sections or links to documents.

On the right frame is supposed to be Excel and Word files (depending on what
is selected from the table of contents).

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Anybody know how I can do this?

Thanks
Don

Visit http://www.microsoft.com/workshop  This is a fatastic resource for the
kind of thing you are doing.  In order to accomplish what you are trying to
do verbatim, your users will need to be running IE4 as it has in-place
viewing of Office documents. (Netscape will prompt the user to open the
document). Your task is relatively easy as there are many 3rd party
controls/applets out there that provide the functionality you need as well
as DHTML scripts that do it.

Good luck.  This is one of the most exciting areas of Software Engineering I
have worked in my short career and look forward to using more "web"
technologies as they surface (or improve).

Michael Earls