Download doc file

[Peter Bauer]

Hi,

i would like to create a downloadlink for a .doc file.
The problem is, that the link opens the .doc file in the
browser. I would like, that the viewers become a pop up,
there they can choose to download the file or not.
What i must do ? Can you help me ?

Thanks
Peter

 

[Steve Easton]

Zip the doc file with WinZip and then import and link to the zipped file.


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[Peter Aitken]

Hi,

i would like to create a downloadlink for a .doc file.
The problem is, that the link opens the .doc file in the
browser. I would like, that the viewers become a pop up,
there they can choose to download the file or not.
What i must do ? Can you help me ?

Thanks
Peter

Not much - whether to download a doc file and save it to disk, or to
immediately open it, is a local setting that the user decides. If there's a
way around this I do not know it.

 

[Peter Bauer]

thanks, so it works.
but where is the straight way ?
is it really not possible to download a doc file ?

 

[Kevin Spencer]

The "straight way" is the way your tried first and didn't like. A browser
downloads files. When you saw the doc in the browser, it was downloaded. The
browser just loaded (hosted) it into the browser window. The method that
Steve gave you is the easy way to force it not to load into the browser
window, by putting it into a Zip file. There is another method that prevents
the browser opening it, but it requires programming to do so.

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