Hi.

I'm using the following code to create a word document from an ASP web page

<%Response.ContentType = "application/msword"
Response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=Project_"&projectlookup&".doc "%>

This works great, can gives the option to save or open. But if after they have opend the file or even saved it then open. When they click the save button it defaults to HTML not .doc.

Ok the work around is to use save as for the first time. But is there any way of locking it into not defaulting .HTML after all it is a.Doc in the first place.

Can you provide the complete senario, what and how do you need this age in .doc ?

I don't think it's going to be possible for a web server to change the default behavior of a client application on a visitor's computer. Even just for the one particular file you send down.

On the other hand, you could try making the file read only, which means people would have to use Save As instead of Save, which could be a gentle reminder. But that wouldn't change the file format it's going to want to use by default.

I haven't tried this with Word, but I have generated Excel spreadsheets on the fly before and I didn't change the filename. Maybe that's your problem.

Take out the second line and see what happens.