Links to Word documents

[blankskeme]

I was wondering....I have a page that has a link to a Word.doc file and when you click the link it downloads the file and opens it in the browser window.

What I would like to happen is when you click on the link to the Word.doc file a pop-up window comes up to ask you to save it and you can browse to save it onto the users computer.

I have done this with dreamweaver and all you do is point the link to file and it works. I didn't know if there was a way to do it with frontpage.

Any help or ideas would be much appreciated!!!

Thanks!!!

 

[Noconi]

No, there isn't a built in feature in FP that would do this. If you can do this in DW, do you have a page online with an example of this? If so, you could probably look at the HTML and see what kind of script is being used to do this. I would suggest a script that would do this for you, but I am not aware of one.

You could zip the .doc file and link to the .zip file, this would prompt the user to save or open from current location.

Tiffany

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[blankskeme]

Noconi
Thank you for your response, I haven't been able to link the .doc file like I want it to. I have linked a zip file, this the link

http://adamwagler.tripod.com/iye/iye.htm

This is what I would like to have happen when you click on the .doc link. I just didn't know if it was possible? If not I will just have to put instructions to right click and save target as.

again thank you !!!

adam

 

[DelphiAaron]

this is how to prompt for saving for any file
without a right click 'save target as'....

<a href=&quot;file.doc&quot; onClick=&quot;javascript:document.execCommand('SaveAs',1,'file.doc');return true;&quot;>Save File</a>

Aaron Taylor
John Mutch Electronics

http://www.jme.com.au

 

[blankskeme]

aaronjme,

thanks that is close to what I was looking for, here is a link where I am try it out...

http://www.usxpo.com/test.html

When I click the link it does pop-up to the save box, but it doesn't save the word.doc it is linked to, instead it saves the actual web page as a .doc. Then after you click save it opens the word.doc in the browser window.

if you could let me know if I am doing something wrong that would be GREAT!!!!

thanks again....

adam

 

[DelphiAaron]

looks like i was led a stray.

it looks like that command prompts to save the webpage..

sorry :-(


Aaron Taylor
John Mutch Electronics

http://www.jme.com.au

 

[blankskeme]

no worries! I wasn't sure if I was doing something wrong...just had to make sure....thanks

adam