I am trying to use Contribute to browse to and then edit a MS Word document on
the webserver. When I click on the link in the website of the word document, I
always get a popup window asking to open in Word , or save the file. The file
is then edited/saved on the local machine, never updating the website version.
The page displaying contribute never changes from the page with the word
document links.

I was reading that you should be able to navigatate to the document and then
select 'edit with external application'.

Any ideas?