Adrian,
its the settings in IE 5 and the user the user has sole control over these.

Tell IE 5 users to Right click and save the document.

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Harris" <adrian(at)gn.apc.org>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 10:26 AM
Subject: Opening Word doc


> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
> The page is:
>
> http://www.e-parl.net/e-parl/energy/policyfr.htm
> and 'To download the full text as a word document or for printing click
here.'
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Adrian Harris M.A.
>
> Member of the HTML Writers Guild
>
>
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>
> GreenNet Design: World Class Web design that won't cost the Earth
>
>
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