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From: Arlene on 11 May 2010 22:14 I've created a form in Word 2007 that includes text boxes and check boxes that visitors should be able to download and save from a link to that file posted on a FrontPage 2003 Web site. When the file is downoaded, it comes in as some type of zip file. Why is this happening? Go to http://11e1.gdpkeyboarding.com/Questionnaire.htm and click the link in this sentence: "Click here to download the Questionnaire." Thanks in advance for any advice.
From: Rob Giordano [MS MVP] on 11 May 2010 23:07 its not a word document, they are zipped .xml files as far as I can tell. Your BEST bet for this would be to create a form in Word then create a pdf form that can be fillable and put that online, that way it can be opened by anyone. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rob Giordano Microsoft MVP Expression Web "Arlene" <Arlene(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8E3E4914-4EA9-4AB5-9838-5DC52800C6D1(a)microsoft.com... > I've created a form in Word 2007 that includes text boxes and check boxes > that visitors should be able to download and save from a link to that file > posted on a FrontPage 2003 Web site. When the file is downoaded, it comes > in > as some type of zip file. Why is this happening? Go to > http://11e1.gdpkeyboarding.com/Questionnaire.htm and click the link in > this > sentence: "Click here to download the Questionnaire." > > Thanks in advance for any advice.
From: Ronx on 12 May 2010 03:46 A word 2007 document saved as a .docx file IS a zip file. It contains, as Rob mentioned, a bunch of XML files that comprise the document. To open it usefully you need Word 2007 or later installed. For the web, save the document as .doc in Word 97-2003 format, and almost everyone with any recent version of Word or Open Office will be able to open it. Having said that, those users with IE will find it opens in their browser, rather than downloads as a file - for those either add a comment near the link to Right Click the link and choose Save As, or place the document in a ZIP file for download. -- Ron Symonds Microsoft MVP (Expression Web) http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp/wf-menu.aspx Arlene submitted this idea : > I've created a form in Word 2007 that includes > text boxes and check boxes that visitors > should be able to download and save from a link > to that file posted on a FrontPage 2003 Web > site. When the file is downoaded, it comes in > as some type of zip file. Why is this > happening? Go to > http://11e1.gdpkeyboarding.com/Questionnaire.htm > and click the link in this sentence: "Click > here to download the Questionnaire." > Thanks in advance for any advice.
From: Arlene on 12 May 2010 11:41 Great suggestion. I'll give it a try. I also posted this in the Word newsgroup and got help--all of it very involved. This sounds like the simplest fix. Thanks again. Arlene "Rob Giordano [MS MVP]" wrote: > its not a word document, they are zipped .xml files as far as I can tell. > Your BEST bet for this would be to create a form in Word then create a pdf > form that can be fillable and put that online, that way it can be opened by > anyone. > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Rob Giordano > Microsoft MVP Expression Web > > > > > > > "Arlene" <Arlene(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:8E3E4914-4EA9-4AB5-9838-5DC52800C6D1(a)microsoft.com... > > I've created a form in Word 2007 that includes text boxes and check boxes > > that visitors should be able to download and save from a link to that file > > posted on a FrontPage 2003 Web site. When the file is downoaded, it comes > > in > > as some type of zip file. Why is this happening? Go to > > http://11e1.gdpkeyboarding.com/Questionnaire.htm and click the link in > > this > > sentence: "Click here to download the Questionnaire." > > > > Thanks in advance for any advice. > >
From: Rob Giordano [MS MVP] on 13 May 2010 16:37 It is....for two reasons...one is that not everyone will have Word, the second is unless you mess around with the Word form a lot, when someone enters data it will mess up the formatting. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rob Giordano Microsoft MVP Expression Web "Arlene" <Arlene(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:45E3B570-40A1-42F9-97E3-81533F2F67C2(a)microsoft.com... > Great suggestion. I'll give it a try. I also posted this in the Word > newsgroup and got help--all of it very involved. This sounds like the > simplest fix. Thanks again. > > Arlene > > "Rob Giordano [MS MVP]" wrote: > >> its not a word document, they are zipped .xml files as far as I can tell. >> Your BEST bet for this would be to create a form in Word then create a >> form that can be fillable and put that online, that way it can be opened >> by >> anyone. >> >> >> >> -- >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Rob Giordano >> Microsoft MVP Expression Web >> >> >> >> >> >> >> "Arlene" <Arlene(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:8E3E4914-4EA9-4AB5-9838-5DC52800C6D1(a)microsoft.com... >> > I've created a form in Word 2007 that includes text boxes and check >> > boxes >> > that visitors should be able to download and save from a link to that >> > file >> > posted on a FrontPage 2003 Web site. When the file is downoaded, it >> > comes >> > in >> > as some type of zip file. Why is this happening? Go to >> > http://11e1.gdpkeyboarding.com/Questionnaire.htm and click the link in >> > this >> > sentence: "Click here to download the Questionnaire." >> > >> > Thanks in advance for any advice. >> >>
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