online document forms

[Janet Kaul]

Why not use the Helper applications in Netscape to provide a
separeate link that will automatically download the word file in
its native state to their desktop? They're under Options,
General Preferences, Helpers. I think one for word is already listed,
and you just edit it and tell it to save to disk rather than
launching word itself to view it, which is another option.

-Janet

> From web4lib at library.berkeley.edu  Thu Aug 14 10:46:09 1997
> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:41:06 -0700
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> From: Jim Morgan <morganj at iupui.edu>
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> Subject: online document forms
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> A department has asked us to mount some wordprocessing forms on the
> internet so that their recipients could use the in WordPerfect, Word, etc.
> It seemed an easy request, since we have some .exe files we make
> available this way, but I haven't figured out how to list the
> document so that Netscape et.al. will download it instead of trying to
> read it.  The documents in question have .doc and .wpd extensions.  When
> Netscape displays them, I've tried saving to disk, but Netscape apparently
> adds some additional text to them that makes the unreadable by the
> wordprocessor.  Has anyone found a way to make wordprocessing docuements
> available to web users?
> 
> Jim Morgan
> morganj at iupui.edu
> 
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