Re: Opening Word doc

by David Jones <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>

Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2003 09:14:32 -1000
To:	hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	apc
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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

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