Launching "Save As..." Dialog from Link

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Jim

Hey all, there's got to be an easy way to do this (if not, shame on
Microsoft, because there should be!)

I have a link that when clicked, opens a Word doc in a new window. I
want the user to be prompted with the Save As... Dialog to save it to
their C:\ drive.

Is it possible?

Jim
 
-----Original Message-----
Hey all, there's got to be an easy way to do this (if
not, shame on Microsoft, because there should be!)

I have a link that when clicked, opens a Word doc in a
new window. I want the user to be prompted with the Save
As... Dialog to save it to their C:\ drive.
Click to expand...

Add some text near the hyperlink, telling visitors to
right-click and choose Save Target As...

Or put the file in a ZIP archive.

Jim Buyens
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No this is not possible, if the user has a application installed that can
read the document, and the browser is aware of the application, then the
document will open in the browser.

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it should do that anyway.
but to force the browser to do this action the user has to right click and choose
"save link as" or "save target as"

It will do it automatically with ZIP files, but will attempt to open the file in
the parent application (eg PDF files will be opened in Adobe Acrobat Reader) - it
won't prompt you to save the file.
 
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