I have created a web page and put a link it to an XLSX workbook for people to
download and work with but instead of opening the file it ask to save it and
it shows up as a zip file. I need to know how to fix this so people can get
to the file if I convert back to .XLS (which does not have this issue from my
website) a lot of the functionality is missing.

thanks in advance for any help.

First, I would recommend that you do link to a zip file rather than an
xlsx file, since some user's policy settings may prevent the download
of an xlsx file.

Second, an xlsx file really is a zip file. An xlsx or an xlsm file
appears in Windows to be a single file, but in reality it is a zip
file containing 10 or 15 individual XML files.

Just link to a zip instead of an xlsx and things will work as
expected.

Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
Excel Product Group, 1998 - 2009
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com
(email on web site)


On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:51:01 -0700, Dascaris
wrote:

I have created a web page and put a link it to an XLSX workbook for people to
download and work with but instead of opening the file it ask to save it and
it shows up as a zip file. I need to know how to fix this so people can get
to the file if I convert back to .XLS (which does not have this issue from my
website) a lot of the functionality is missing.

thanks in advance for any help.

Thank You! Worked great!

"Chip Pearson" wrote:

First, I would recommend that you do link to a zip file rather than an
xlsx file, since some user's policy settings may prevent the download
of an xlsx file.

Second, an xlsx file really is a zip file. An xlsx or an xlsm file
appears in Windows to be a single file, but in reality it is a zip
file containing 10 or 15 individual XML files.

Just link to a zip instead of an xlsx and things will work as
expected.

Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
Excel Product Group, 1998 - 2009
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com
(email on web site)


On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:51:01 -0700, Dascaris
wrote:

I have created a web page and put a link it to an XLSX workbook for people to
download and work with but instead of opening the file it ask to save it and
it shows up as a zip file. I need to know how to fix this so people can get
to the file if I convert back to .XLS (which does not have this issue from my
website) a lot of the functionality is missing.

thanks in advance for any help.