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From: "bobt" <>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.web.authoring
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 2:15 PM
Subject: Link to a .doc

In a web page, you may link to most any type of file.
Opening of the file, however is dependent upon what software or plug-ins the
visitor has installed on their browser.

When converting Word docs to web pages, the purpose is to retain the Word
formatting. How effectively this preservation is done is also dependent upon
the visitors browsers.
Not all your vistitors are going to be using MS browsers.

As a result the Word formatting for those NON-MS browsers will not be
preserved in a Word created web page. These non-MS Browsers may in fact see
a presentable mess because your Word created html is NOT validated html/CSS.

Hi Bob,

While Word has support for anchors (bookmarks) internally
Word 2000 support for opening documents in a browser wasn't
working
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;211222&FR=1

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