Downlaod document?

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I am trying to put a document onto my site that allows a person to dowload
and save it. I am currently using a code that allows them to open it in
their web browser window. What is the code for giving them the option to
save the document or to open it in Word?
 
There isn't. All you do is link to the document as if it was a web page. The
problem is, Internet Explorer understands what type of document it is and
how to display it. Because it understands this it will launch the document
within IE as long as Word is available on the system.

To get around this you can do one of two things:
1) Instruct your users to right-click on a hyperlink to a document and
choose the Save Target As option from the menu (not a neat solution)
2) Create a zip file with the Word document in it then link to the zip file.
IE won't open a zip file automatically so they'll be promoted to save or
open.
 
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