Hello all:
One of my clients wanted a quick and cheap method to save a web-based report
as a Word document.  My quick solution was to have, at a button click, the
page resubmit itself, but with an additional header in the file:

<%  'from an ASP page
strFileName = "I_generate_a_filename_here.doc"
response.ContentType = "application/msword"
Response.AddHeader "content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" &
strFileName
%>

This has worked like a charm, the user is prompted to save or open the file;
Word then interprets the HTML as a document, and displays it correctly.

But my client has a user that is still using Word 97 and is experiencing
difficulties in opening the report in Word.  She gets an error, "The file
appears to be corrupted."  I set up a test environment (Win2K, Word 97 SR-2)
and have been unable to duplicate the error, but have encountered a new
issue:
If I open Notepad, bang out a simple HTML page, and save it as a .doc file,
Word 97 opens it and displays it as plain-text, complete with the tags.  If
I do the same on Word 2K, the file displays as I would expect (<h1> is big
and bold, <p> tags create paragraphs, etc.)  ((And if I save the same file
from Word 2K, Word 97 has no problem opening it, but Word 2K has added a ton
of binary data to it.  But I digress....))

I have been through the Office 97 install disk and Microsoft's knowledge
base and downloads, but have not found anything that works in these
situations.  Any clue you can give me will be greatly appreciated.

TIA,
Dave