Downloading a Word Document

[Steve Frye]

I have a long document (a novel) that I have posted on a website using
Word's "Save as Webpage" option.

How should my friends download it?
Right now they are simply doing a gigantic copy/paste into a blank document.
Is that the best way? Will any formatting be lost?

Steve

 

[TF]

Steve

Well Word doesn't 'round-trip' HTML very well - even in Word 2003 it is far
from perfect - so some formatting will be changed. But unless it has any
complex formatting (and should a novel require complex formatting?) it will
probably be OK.

If you really want to make sure they get it perfectly intact, I suggest that
you ZIP the document and post it for download as well as in HTML for viewing
on screen.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/

: I have a long document (a novel) that I have posted on a website using
: Word's "Save as Webpage" option.
:
: How should my friends download it?
: Right now they are simply doing a gigantic copy/paste into a blank
document.
: Is that the best way? Will any formatting be lost?
:
: Steve
:
:

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Or, if you fear your users won't have an unzipping utility, just post the
document in .doc format. If you have the ability to create a PDF, this is
the ideal solution, as it can be opened for reading or printing (with free
Acrobat Reader, which most users will have) without saving it to the HD, and
it can also be saved for future reference if desired.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

 

[Steve Frye]

Okay, Suzanne, I used WS_FTP and posted the document as a .doc.
But I'm still not clear on how anyone can download it from their browser.
Will the other people have to use FTP also? I don't think some of them will
want to learn how to use it.

TF:
Where can I find instructions for zipping and posting for download? Can I
simply post the .doc for downloading. I don't think a long download will
bother anybody. I have a 56K dial up and it's only a minute or two for me.

 

[TF]

Steve

If it isn't large, then it will be OK. Open Google and search WinZip which
will take you to WinZip.com where you can read about it and download a trial
version.

If you have uploaded the document by FTP, somewhere on your site you will
need a shortcut button that links to the FTP path for users to download.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://word.mvps.org/

: Okay, Suzanne, I used WS_FTP and posted the document as a .doc.
: But I'm still not clear on how anyone can download it from their browser.
: Will the other people have to use FTP also? I don't think some of them
will
: want to learn how to use it.
:
: TF:
: Where can I find instructions for zipping and posting for download? Can I
: simply post the .doc for downloading. I don't think a long download will
: bother anybody. I have a 56K dial up and it's only a minute or two for me.
:
:
:
: : > Or, if you fear your users won't have an unzipping utility, just post
the
: > document in .doc format. If you have the ability to create a PDF, this
is
: > the ideal solution, as it can be opened for reading or printing (with
free
: > Acrobat Reader, which most users will have) without saving it to the HD,
: and
: > it can also be saved for future reference if desired.
: >
: > --
: > Suzanne S. Barnhill
: > Microsoft MVP (Word)
: > Words into Type
: > Fairhope, Alabama USA
:
: > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
: so
: > all may benefit.
: >
: > "TF" <terryfarrell%40%6d%73%6e%2ecom> wrote in message
: > : > > Steve
: > >
: > > Well Word doesn't 'round-trip' HTML very well - even in Word 2003 it
is
: > far
: > > from perfect - so some formatting will be changed. But unless it has
any
: > > complex formatting (and should a novel require complex formatting?) it
: > will
: > > probably be OK.
: > >
: > > If you really want to make sure they get it perfectly intact, I
suggest
: > that
: > > you ZIP the document and post it for download as well as in HTML for
: > viewing
: > > on screen.
: > >
: > > --
: > > Terry Farrell - Word MVP
: > > http://word.mvps.org/
: > >
: > > : > > : I have a long document (a novel) that I have posted on a website
using
: > > : Word's "Save as Webpage" option.
: > > :
: > > : How should my friends download it?
: > > : Right now they are simply doing a gigantic copy/paste into a blank
: > > document.
: > > : Is that the best way? Will any formatting be lost?
: > > :
: > > : Steve
: > > :
: > > :
: > >
: > >
: >
:
:
:

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You give users the URL to the document (either as a link on a Web site as
Terry suggests or in an email or by some other method). When they click on
that link or enter that URL, they'll get the usual browser download dialog:

You have chosen to download a file from this location.
What would you like to do with thi...ollow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

 

[Steve Frye]

TF:
I can make a link to the URL for a browser (IE6, for example) but I don't
know how to make the path to the FTP site of the document for downloading.

I can give lots of details in my next post, if you don't understand what I
mean.

Steve

You give users the URL to the document (either as a link on a Web site as
Terry suggests or in an email or by some other method). When they click on
that link or enter that URL, they'll get the usual browser download dialog:

You have chosen to download a file from this location.
What would you like to do with thi...r me. HD, and newsgroup [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]

 

[Steve Frye]

Suzanne:
The first link says page cannot be found.
The second link opened a PDF file about grammar.
I didn't get a "Download" dialogue box.

Steve

You give users the URL to the document (either as a link on a Web site as
Terry suggests or in an email or by some other method). When they click on
that link or enter that URL, they'll get the usual browser download dialog:

You have chosen to download a file from this location.
What would you like to do with thi...r me. HD, and newsgroup [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You must have IE set to open files without presenting the dialog asking you
to open or save. This is very dangerous. I've looked at Internet Options in
IE and can't figure out where this setting is, but when you get the dialog,
I think there's a check box saying "Don't show this again," or like the
"Always ask before opening this type of file" when you try to open an
attachment. Anyway, the PDF obviously worked for you: it opened in Acrobat
Reader, right?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Suzanne:
The first link says page cannot be found.
The second link opened a PDF file about grammar.
I didn't get a "Download" dialogue box.

Steve

You give users the URL to the document (either as a link on a Web site as
Terry suggests or in an email or by some other method). When they click on
that link or enter that URL, they'll get the usual browser download dialog:

You have chosen to download a file from this location.
What would you like to do with thi...OTE] formatting?)[QUOTE] it [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]

 

[Jay Freedman]

Steve, I suspect you just clicked the link for the zip file in your
newsreader, but the "linked" part ends at the word "Wide" and is
incomplete. That's why you got the "page not found" error. Try this
link instead:

<http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/Wide and narrow tables.zip>

If the Word document opens within IE, then you have the setting
Suzanne described. Instead, try right-clicking the link and selecting
"Save target to disk" or the equivalent (each newsreader has a
different wording for the choice).

You must have IE set to open files without presenting the dialog asking you
to open or save. This is very dangerous. I've looked at Internet Options in
IE and can't figure out where this setting is, but when you get the dialog,
I think there's a check box saying "Don't show this again," or like the
"Always ask before opening this type of file" when you try to open an
attachment. Anyway, the PDF obviously worked for you: it opened in Acrobat
Reader, right?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Suzanne:
The first link says page cannot be found.
The second link opened a PDF file about grammar.
I didn't get a "Download" dialogue box.

Steve

You give users the URL to the document (either as a link on a Web site as
Terry suggests or in an email or by some other method). When they click on
that link or enter that URL, they'll get the usual browser download dialog:

You have chosen to download a file from this location.
What would you like to do with thi...ost? : : Steve : : [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes. That was an ad hoc upload that is no longer needed. I would have taken
it down when I spotted it if I hadn't been referring Steve to it. Ordinarily
I give these files names without spaces, but I slipped up on that one.

Steve, what you're not getting is that you upload files to an FTP site, but
users don't have to download them that way. What you're doing when you FTP
them is making them available as Web pages (if they're HTML files) or for
download through a browser if they're documents. Users don't need to access
them via FTP. FTP is one way of creating a Web site; so, for example, all
the files at http://home.sbarnhill.zebra.net have been uploaded via WS_FTP,
but you access them with your browser.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Steve, I suspect you just clicked the link for the zip file in your
newsreader, but the "linked" part ends at the word "Wide" and is
incomplete. That's why you got the "page not found" error. Try this
link instead:

<http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/Wide and narrow tables.zip>

If the Word document opens within IE, then you have the setting
Suzanne described. Instead, try right-clicking the link and selecting
"Save target to disk" or the equivalent (each newsreader has a
different wording for the choice).

You must have IE set to open files without presenting the dialog asking you
to open or save. This is very dangerous. I've looked at Internet Options in
IE and can't figure out where this setting is, but when you get the dialog,
I think there's a check box saying "Don't show this again," or like the
"Always ask before opening this type of file" when you try to open an
attachment. Anyway, the PDF obviously worked for you: it opened in Acrobat
Reader, right?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Suzanne:
The first link says page cannot be found.
The second link opened a PDF file about grammar.
I didn't get a "Download" dialogue box.

Steve


You give users the URL to the document (either as a link on a Web

site
as

Terry suggests or in an email or by some other method). When they

click
on

that link or enter that URL, they'll get the usual browser download
dialog:

You have chosen to download a file from this location.
What would you like to do with thi...ost? : : Steve : : [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]

 

[Steve Frye]

Okay! Thanks, Suzanne, I finally got it.
I was under the misunderstanding that a person needed two separate links to
the document.
The first link would be to view it (Std. URL) and another link would be
needed to download it (download path somehow linked to FTP path). But now I
see that if you right click the URL link, there is an option to "Save Target
As:"
So the standard URL to the document will do both!

Now, if I save the doc as a .doc using FTP and someone downloads it using
"Save Target As" . . . and they make it a Word Document, then will simple
formatting stay okay? I'm only worried about Bold, italic, size, indents,
and a few header styles. I suspect this may have already been answered by TF
when he said:

"Word doesn't 'round-trip' HTML very well . . ."

But what about .doc documents?

Steve

Yes. That was an ad hoc upload that is no longer needed. I would have taken
it down when I spotted it if I hadn't been referring Steve to it. Ordinarily
I give these files names without spaces, but I slipped up on that one.

Steve, what you're not getting is that you upload files to an FTP site, but
users don't have to download them that way. What you're doing when you FTP
them is making them available as Web pages (if they're HTML files) or for
download through a browser if they're documents. Users don't need to access
them via FTP. FTP is one way of creating a Web site; so, for example, all
the files at http://home.sbarnhill.zebra.net have been uploaded via WS_FTP,
but you access them with your browser.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Steve, I suspect you just clicked the link for the zip file in your
newsreader, but the "linked" part ends at the word "Wide" and is
incomplete. That's why you got the "page not found" error. Try this
link instead:

<http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/Wide and narrow tables.zip>

If the Word document opens within IE, then you have the setting
Suzanne described. Instead, try right-clicking the link and selecting
"Save target to disk" or the equivalent (each newsreader has a
different wording for the choice).

Options

in

newsgroup

so

all may benefit.

Suzanne:
The first link says page cannot be found.
The second link opened a PDF file about grammar.
I didn't get a "Download" dialogue box.

Steve


You give users the URL to the document (either as a link on a Web site
as
Terry suggests or in an email or by some other method). When they click
on
that link or enter that URL, they'll get the usual browser download
dialog:

You have chosen to download a file from this location.
What would you like to do with thi... or[/QUOTE][/QUOTE] two[QUOTE] for[/QUOTE] to

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You still aren't getting it. You should not need to use Save Target As. When
you click on the link you should be getting the download dialog (for a
..doc), or the file should open in Acrobat Reader (for a PDF).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Okay! Thanks, Suzanne, I finally got it.
I was under the misunderstanding that a person needed two separate links to
the document.
The first link would be to view it (Std. URL) and another link would be
needed to download it (download path somehow linked to FTP path). But now I
see that if you right click the URL link, there is an option to "Save Target
As:"
So the standard URL to the document will do both!

Now, if I save the doc as a .doc using FTP and someone downloads it using
"Save Target As" . . . and they make it a Word Document, then will simple
formatting stay okay? I'm only worried about Bold, italic, size, indents,
and a few header styles. I suspect this may have already been answered by TF
when he said:

"Word doesn't 'round-trip' HTML very well . . ."

But what about .doc documents?

Steve

Yes. That was an ad hoc upload that is no longer needed. I would have taken
it down when I spotted it if I hadn't been referring Steve to it. Ordinarily
I give these files names without spaces, but I slipped up on that one.

Steve, what you're not getting is that you upload files to an FTP site, but
users don't have to download them that way. What you're doing when you FTP
them is making them available as Web pages (if they're HTML files) or for
download through a browser if they're documents. Users don't need to access
them via FTP. FTP is one way of creating a Web site; so, for example, all
the files at http://home.sbarnhill.zebra.net have been uploaded via WS_FTP,
but you access them with your browser.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the

newsgroup

so
all may benefit.

Steve, I suspect you just clicked the link for the zip file in your
newsreader, but the "linked" part ends at the word "Wide" and is
incomplete. That's why you got the "page not found" error. Try this
link instead:

<http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/Wide and narrow tables.zip>

If the Word document opens within IE, then you have the setting
Suzanne described. Instead, try right-clicking the link and selecting
"Save target to disk" or the equivalent (each newsreader has a
different wording for the choice).


You must have IE set to open files without presenting the dialog

asking
you

to open or save. This is very dangerous. I've looked at Internet

Options

in
IE and can't figure out where this setting is, but when you get the dialog,
I think there's a check box saying "Don't show this again," or like the
"Always ask before opening this type of file" when you try to open an
attachment. Anyway, the PDF obviously worked for you: it opened in Acrobat
Reader, right?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the

newsgroup

so
all may benefit.

Suzanne:
The first link says page cannot be found.
The second link opened a PDF file about grammar.
I didn't get a "Download" dialogue box.

Steve


You give users the URL to the document (either as a link on a Web site
as
Terry suggests or in an email or by some other method). When they click
on
that link or enter that URL, they'll get the usual browser download
dialog:

You have chosen to download a file from this location.
What would you like to do with thi.../QUOTE][/QUOTE] intact,[QUOTE] I[/QUOTE] into

 

[Steve Frye]

I see............

Please don't give up on me, Suzanne.
Hang in there, I catch on fast. It's just that everything is so new to me
right now.
I don't recall ever getting the dialogue box you mention, let alone clicking
an option to never show it again. At least, I don't get it for the little
project I'm working on. I do get that dialogue box when downloading regular
programs or updates from, say, ZoneAlarm or Windows Updade. I always choose
"Save to Disk".

Can you go here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~campbell36/

and check if my little project works okay for you. I am leaving password
protection in so it will more truly represent what I want to do.

For test purposes, I have set
User Name = Suzanne
Password = MVP
and the "manuscript" is just filler from a one-page cut/paste from a grammar
book. It has a small amount of formatting..... bold and font.

What happens when I go there is:
I click on the "Manuscript" link.
I enter the UserName and Password.
Then I go directly to the document.
(The document was uploaded using WS_FTP LE.)
(The doc name is "Manuscript.doc")

What should happen?
What happens when you go there?

Thanks,
Steve

You still aren't getting it. You should not need to use Save Target As. When
you click on the link you should be getting the download dialog (for a
.doc), or the file should open in Acrobat Reader (for a PDF).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

Okay! Thanks, Suzanne, I finally got it.
I was under the misunderstanding that a person needed two separate links to
the document.
The first link would be to view it (Std. URL) and another link would be
needed to download it (download path somehow linked to FTP path). But

now

I
see that if you right click the URL link, there is an option to "Save Target
As:"
So the standard URL to the document will do both!

Now, if I save the doc as a .doc using FTP and someone downloads it using
"Save Target As" . . . and they make it a Word Document, then will simple
formatting stay okay? I'm only worried about Bold, italic, size, indents,
and a few header styles. I suspect this may have already been answered

by

TF
when he said:

"Word doesn't 'round-trip' HTML very well . . ."

But what about .doc documents?

Steve

Yes. That was an ad hoc upload that is no longer needed. I would have taken
it down when I spotted it if I hadn't been referring Steve to it. Ordinarily
I give these files names without spaces, but I slipped up on that one.

Steve, what you're not getting is that you upload files to an FTP

site,
but

users don't have to download them that way. What you're doing when you FTP
them is making them available as Web pages (if they're HTML files) or for
download through a browser if they're documents. Users don't need to access
them via FTP. FTP is one way of creating a Web site; so, for example, all
the files at http://home.sbarnhill.zebra.net have been uploaded via WS_FTP,
but you access them with your browser.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the

newsgroup

so
all may benefit.

Steve, I suspect you just clicked the link for the zip file in your
newsreader, but the "linked" part ends at the word "Wide" and is
incomplete. That's why you got the "page not found" error. Try this
link instead:

<http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/Wide and narrow tables.zip>

If the Word document opens within IE, then you have the setting
Suzanne described. Instead, try right-clicking the link and selecting
"Save target to disk" or the equivalent (each newsreader has a
different wording for the choice).


You must have IE set to open files without presenting the dialog asking
you
to open or save. This is very dangerous. I've looked at Internet Options
in
IE and can't figure out where this setting is, but when you get the
dialog,
I think there's a check box saying "Don't show this again," or like the
"Always ask before opening this type of file" when you try to open an
attachment. Anyway, the PDF obviously worked for you: it opened in
Acrobat
Reader, right?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

Suzanne:
The first link says page cannot be found.
The second link opened a PDF file about grammar.
I didn't get a "Download" dialogue box.

Steve


You give users the URL to the document (either as a link on a Web
site
as
Terry suggests or in an email or by some other method). When they
click
on
that link or enter that URL, they'll get the usual browser download
dialog:

You have chosen to download a file from this location.
What would you like to do with thi...o a PDF, it to intact, into [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Works fine up to the point where I get the password dialog. This is the same
thing that would happen to you if you tried to download any of the docs I
have posted at http://home.earthlink.net/~fairhoperotary. If I got past the
password, I assume I would get the download dialog.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

I see............

Please don't give up on me, Suzanne.
Hang in there, I catch on fast. It's just that everything is so new to me
right now.
I don't recall ever getting the dialogue box you mention, let alone clicking
an option to never show it again. At least, I don't get it for the little
project I'm working on. I do get that dialogue box when downloading regular
programs or updates from, say, ZoneAlarm or Windows Updade. I always choose
"Save to Disk".

Can you go here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~campbell36/

and check if my little project works okay for you. I am leaving password
protection in so it will more truly represent what I want to do.

For test purposes, I have set
User Name = Suzanne
Password = MVP
and the "manuscript" is just filler from a one-page cut/paste from a grammar
book. It has a small amount of formatting..... bold and font.

What happens when I go there is:
I click on the "Manuscript" link.
I enter the UserName and Password.
Then I go directly to the document.
(The document was uploaded using WS_FTP LE.)
(The doc name is "Manuscript.doc")

What should happen?
What happens when you go there?

Thanks,
Steve

You still aren't getting it. You should not need to use Save Target As. When
you click on the link you should be getting the download dialog (for a
.doc), or the file should open in Acrobat Reader (for a PDF).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the

newsgroup

so
all may benefit.

links
to now by you
FTP or
for example,
all like
the

open

an

attachment. Anyway, the PDF obviously worked for you: it opened in
Acrobat
Reader, right?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

Suzanne:
The first link says page cannot be found.
The second link opened a PDF file about grammar.
I didn't get a "Download" dialogue box.

Steve


You give users the URL to the document (either as a link on a Web
site
as
Terry suggests or in an email or by some other method). When they
click
on
that link or enter that URL, they'll get the usual browser download
dialog:

You have chosen to download a file from this location.

What would you like to do with this File?
o Open this file from its current location
o Save this file to disk

They choose the latter option and browse to the desired

http:// What would you like to do w...OTE] in[/QUOTE] on[QUOTE] a [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]

folder

to some

create

a

saving

it to
the

as

in

on

a

http:// What would you like to do w...OTE] in[/QUOTE] on[QUOTE] a [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE][/QUOTE]

 

[Steve Frye]

Try
UserName = Suzanne
password = MVP

Works fine up to the point where I get the password dialog. This is the same
thing that would happen to you if you tried to download any of the docs I
have posted at http://home.earthlink.net/~fairhoperotary. If I got past the
password, I assume I would get the download dialog.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

I see............

Please don't give up on me, Suzanne.
Hang in there, I catch on fast. It's just that everything is so new to me
right now.
I don't recall ever getting the dialogue box you mention, let alone clicking
an option to never show it again. At least, I don't get it for the little
project I'm working on. I do get that dialogue box when downloading regular
programs or updates from, say, ZoneAlarm or Windows Updade. I always choose
"Save to Disk".

Can you go here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~campbell36/

and check if my little project works okay for you. I am leaving password
protection in so it will more truly represent what I want to do.

For test purposes, I have set
User Name = Suzanne
Password = MVP
and the "manuscript" is just filler from a one-page cut/paste from a grammar
book. It has a small amount of formatting..... bold and font.

What happens when I go there is:
I click on the "Manuscript" link.
I enter the UserName and Password.
Then I go directly to the document.
(The document was uploaded using WS_FTP LE.)
(The doc name is "Manuscript.doc")

What should happen?
What happens when you go there?

Thanks,
Steve

You still aren't getting it. You should not need to use Save Target

As.
When

you click on the link you should be getting the download dialog (for a
.doc), or the file should open in Acrobat Reader (for a PDF).

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Okay! Thanks, Suzanne, I finally got it.
I was under the misunderstanding that a person needed two separate links
to
the document.
The first link would be to view it (Std. URL) and another link would be
needed to download it (download path somehow linked to FTP path).

But
now

I
see that if you right click the URL link, there is an option to "Save
Target
As:"
So the standard URL to the document will do both!

Now, if I save the doc as a .doc using FTP and someone downloads it using
"Save Target As" . . . and they make it a Word Document, then will
simple
formatting stay okay? I'm only worried about Bold, italic, size, indents,
and a few header styles. I suspect this may have already been

answered
by

TF
when he said:

"Word doesn't 'round-trip' HTML very well . . ."

But what about .doc documents?

Steve


Yes. That was an ad hoc upload that is no longer needed. I would have
taken
it down when I spotted it if I hadn't been referring Steve to it.
Ordinarily
I give these files names without spaces, but I slipped up on that one.

Steve, what you're not getting is that you upload files to an FTP site,
but
users don't have to download them that way. What you're doing when you
FTP
them is making them available as Web pages (if they're HTML files) or
for
download through a browser if they're documents. Users don't need to
access
them via FTP. FTP is one way of creating a Web site; so, for example,
all
the files at http://home.sbarnhill.zebra.net have been uploaded via
WS_FTP,
but you access them with your browser.

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Steve, I suspect you just clicked the link for the zip file in your
newsreader, but the "linked" part ends at the word "Wide" and is
incomplete. That's why you got the "page not found" error. Try this
link instead:

<http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/Wide and narrow tables.zip>

If the Word document opens within IE, then you have the setting
Suzanne described. Instead, try right-clicking the link and selecting
"Save target to disk" or the equivalent (each newsreader has a
different wording for the choice).


You must have IE set to open files without presenting the dialog
asking
you
to open or save. This is very dangerous. I've looked at Internet
Options
in
IE and can't figure out where this setting is, but when you get the
dialog,
I think there's a check box saying "Don't show this again," or like
the
"Always ask before opening this type of file" when you try to

open

an
attachment. Anyway, the PDF obviously worked for you: it opened in
Acrobat
Reader, right?

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Suzanne:
The first link says page cannot be found.
The second link opened a PDF file about grammar.
I didn't get a "Download" dialogue box.

Steve


You give users the URL to the document (either as a link on

a
Web

site
as
Terry suggests or in an email or by some other method).

When
they

click
on
that link or enter that URL, they'll get the usual browser
download
dialog:

You have chosen to download a file from this location.
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[Steve Frye]

Okay, so it works properly for you, but not for me. Hmmmm.
I guess I must have unchecked that "Always Ask" box somewhere along the
line, but I'll be darned if I can find a way to get it back. Thank you very
much for sticking with me enough to see this through.
Going to try and find a NG where I can ask how to reset that dialogue box
thingy.
(Already tried resetting all Tools | Internet Options | Advanced settings to
default values---no help).

Thanks again, Suzanne.

Steve

 

[Steve Frye]

Suzanne, FYI

Here is the answer posted by Alan Edwards in another NG on how to get the
dialogue boxes to work.
Thanks, Allen. It works.

You set this for each file type, e.g. for .zip
Explorer-View-Folder Options-File Types
Find the .zip association (may be WinZip File)
Edit, (or click Advanced on ME or XP) and check the "Confirm open
after download" box

The path to Folder Options may vary according to your operating
system. It may be:
Explorer-View-Folder Options
Explorer-Tools-Folder Options
Start-Settings-Folder Options
Start-Settings-Control Panel-Folder options.

....Alan

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If that is in fact the correct setting, the wording is misleading, since
confirming opening after downloading and asking whether or not you want to
download it at all seem (to me at least) to be two different things!

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Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Steve Frye]

Yes, it is the correct setting. I tried it and it worked.
And yes, indeed, the wording in the Advanced tab setting is very
misleading---totally backwards of what you'd think. Oh, well......