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