Web links will save but won't open

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Nick

I have several links to Word files on a site I created in Publisher 2003 (we
had a problem with Fron Page extensions on our Board of Ed site). External
weblinks work fine but the pages I FTP won't open, if you right click on them
they'll save and then open.

The site is: http://www.jcboe.org/coaches

Thanks for the help!
 
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DavidF

Nick,

It would have been helpful if you had provided a link to a page where you
are having the problem, but I did find one .doc file. On page
http://www.jcboe.org/coaches/index_files/page0002.htm you have written the
link to the Word file incorrectly. Note the hyperlinked text: NJDOE
Horizontal Design for Technology-Grade 4 indicators . If you hover your
mouse over the link and look at the status bar you will see the link is
written:
file:///F:/tech%20stuff/tech%20handbook/horizontal.doc
In other words, you have pointed the link to your hard drive, not your web
server.

I would suggest that you create a subfolder on your website, perhaps called
"downloads", upload your "horizontal.doc" file to that subfolder, and then
write the link as such:
http://www.jcboe.org/coaches/downloads/horizontal.doc and it should work.
Just be sure that the downloads folder is at the same level as your
index.htm file and your index_files folder in the directory...or change your
link to where ever you put the subfolder.

I would also suggest the subfolder for another reason. You said that you are
having problems with the FPSE on your site. You have a form, so you do need
to use the FPSE and HTTP uploading in order for the forms to work correctly.
And if you use FTP uploading, you can corrupt the FPSE. However, if you
create the subfolder "downloads" and use FTP exclusively for uploading files
to that folder, it will not break the FPSE for the rest of the site. That's
another reason to not put the "downloads" folder in the index_files
folder...it would create problems when you update the majority of your site
using HTTP uploading.

Now a different issue. You said that you are using Pub 2003 to produce your
site, but the code says otherwise. If you open a page go to View > Source
you will see your site is produced with Publisher 10 which is Pub 2002.
Another give away is that you have fixed length pages which is only found in
Pub 2002.

If you do have Pub 2003, then I would encourage you to switch from 2002, but
I am going to assume that you just typed in the wrong version. (If you do
switch to 2003, post back for some more suggestions) And with that
assumption, you need to produce your web pages differently than you are
doing now. First of all check the SP of your version of Publisher. Go to
Help > About Publisher and if your copy of Publisher is not at least SP1,
then before you do anything else, update it. The first unpatched version of
Publisher 2002 was a total mess. Then after patching, when you are ready to
create your web pages from your Publisher file, use Export As a web page vs.
Save As a web page. This will produce "filtered" code that is much lighter
and works better. Even then, Pub 2002 was/is the worse version of Publisher
for producing web pages...

If my answer about your Word file links doesn't fix your problem, then post
back and be a bit more specific this time. Good luck.

DavidF
 
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Mike Koewler

Nick,

The one Word Doc. I clicked on was going to open, but it contains a
Macro and I tend to avoid opening files with those.

Mike
 

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