Re: Opening Word doc

At 02:14 PM 3/10/2003, David Jones wrote:
>On 10 Mar 2003, at 15:26, Adrian Harris wrote:
>
> > my client wants to offer a Word version of a long
> > document, so I've made a simple <a href> link to the
> > document. This has always worked fine in all browsers, but
> > IE 5.5 opens the document in the browser window, not in
> > Word itself. Well, maybe it's using Word, but it appears
> > to be in the browser:
> >
> > Opera 7 and NN 6 do what we want - download the Word Doc.
> > Is there any way to force IE to open it in Word?
>
>Nope, it's a setting in IE that the user has to change.
>
>David
>dvjones(at)ksbe.edu
>

David is right, but you can fool IE by using a non-standard extension.  For 
example, instead of ".doc", use ".doc.sav" and the "save" dialog will 
probably appear (don't think .sav is a standard extension).  Of course the 
user will then have to either rename it or tell Word to open this kind of 
file.  Another problem that may arise is, if you tell Word that these are 
doc files, it may share that info with IE and you're back to "square one".

HTH,

Norman
www.CraftedSolutions.com

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