Office 2007 and 2010 file formats (docx, xlsx, pptx...) are actually several XML files zipped together in to one file and that is the file you see and why some of you without support for that see a zip file. My guess is that the mime-types for that filetype also haven't been installed on the webserver. When the server doesn't tell the browser what type of file to expect, the browser will attempt to determine what it is. An easy way to detect a zip file is to look at the first two characters of the file. The ZIP header always contains the letters "PK" at the beginning of the file (PK is the initials of ZIPs creator). We ran through a problem with this when our spam filter started blocking office documents. The filter wasn't checking the file extension, it was inspecting the files themselves. Recently, I found out that Apple's iWork suite works the same way. They are simply zip files. A student came in with a report that he couldn't print because we don't have any macs with iWork. I opened the file in notepad to try to extract some text for him if possible and I saw the "PK" characters at the beginning. I changed the ext to zip and unzipped the file. To my surprise, inside the file is a PDF version of the document used represent the actual document on the icon or in quick view situations. I printed that out and he turned in his paper. Anyway, enough story telling. :)
>>> "Richard Kasson" <rkas...@valmeyerk12.org> 10/21/2010 8:29 AM >>> Same here Jim. It comes up as a zipped file. Why don't you save it as a PDF out of Excel? Might be easier on you in the long run. -----Original Message----- From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Gallo Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 8:16 AM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] website It comes up as a zip file for me, which is a problem we have experienced with IE 8. We had this problem with attachments and OWA. Until I added my domain site as a trusted site, I had this problem but after it was added it worked fine. The other thing you can do is when the option comes up as to save or open the zipped file, save it and add the appropriate file extension as part of the name and it will save the file in the correct format. Dennis Gallo District Technology Director O'Fallon School District 90 Phone: 618-206-2489 Fax: 618-206-2487 ________________________________ From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org on behalf of Alicia M.M.Kessler Sent: Thu 10/21/2010 8:02 AM To: tech-geeks@tech-geeks.org Subject: [tech-geeks] website Would someone please go to this site, and click the excel file (07) and see if starts to download or if you get junk? I get the download - which is fine -a teacher outside of school said she only got code...... http://www.neoga.k12.il.us/nhs/Library/StMichaels.html Alicia M. M. Kessler It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. ~Garrison Keillor | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
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