opening excel file in different stations

[Abroza]

Hi,
I linked an excel file to my website.
There is a problem opening the file in different stations/computers.
in the first staion, it works fine , it can be open as an excel file,
but in the other station in opens the file as a compressed (zipped) folder and then when I press the "open", It asked to save the file.
there is an attched file so it will be more clear.
can someone tell me why it works like this? what is the different configuration between the computers that causes the file to open differently?
how can I solve it ? so it will open the file as an excel and not compressed (zipped)
hope you can help it's a big issue,
thank

[teylyn]

Hi,

you can find an explanation of the phenomenon and solutions here:

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/sh...hreadid=162526

Executive summary:

The new Office 2007 file formats are now using an Open XML file format system so they are more compatible with other office programs from Google, Open Office...etc. Essentially they are ZIP files that are full of XML files that when opened with the a proper application turn into a friendly word document. While that's pretty nice of Microsoft, they haven't been to good about release MIME type information for these file formats which can cause some interesting issues when trying to upload and download them to a webserver.

I stumbled onto this problem while I was working with MediaWiki. I was uploading Office 2007 files (docx to be precise) and when my co-workers went to download them on Vista, they would save as .zip files. When they tried to open them up they were just a bunch of XML files which to the untrained eye would be a bunch of gobbledygook.

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Since Office 2007 is new and Vista is new a web server isn't going to know what application runs what file extension. At some point Microsoft will release an update (I hope) but until them we can just add in the appropriate MIME Types to our web servers and that should give us the results we want.

I put up the list of office 2007 file extensions and their MIME Types on to the server hosting my MediaWiki and just like that everything worked. Here is the list of Office 2007 MIME type associations you can add if you run into this same problem.

follow the link above for more info.