On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Dave Newton <newton.d...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Jim Collings wrote:
>
>> It's a report and the requirement I'm trying to satisfy is that you
>> have to be able to save it as a MS Word *.doc file. What I've
>> discovered is that you can take a stand-alone html file (i.e. no
>> external files like images or CSS etc. ) change the file extension
>> from *.html to *.doc and double clicking opens it in Word without any
>> trouble.
>>
>
> Only if your machine is configured to open up HTML files in Word, which
> strikes me as completely bizarre.
>

Just for fun I just tried it -- made a trivial HTML file, named it
"foo.doc," and double-clicked, and it did open in Word.  Properly formatted
and so on too.  Word is happy to open HTML files.  It loves you and it wants
you to be happy.

jk

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