Excel Attachments?

[Greg McCoy]

In this post (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=264712&postcount=5) I tried to attach an Excel file, but it doesn't open like Word documents do and the little icon isn't appearing for me. I noticed someone else had the same problem here (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=250417&postcount=665).

Brandon, is this a bug?

[Brandon Martus]

Ok, the icon should be fixed now. [upgrade issues]

What do you mean when you say 'doesnt open like word documents do' ?

[ngreen]

I think he would like to be able to click and have it open up as a word or excel document but I didn't think the word documents opened like that either. I was pretty sure you have to save everything in order to open it.


EDIT: I guess I hadn't opened a .doc off here for a while. Yeah. The .xls is like that at least for now.

[Mark McLeod]

Ok, the icon should be fixed now. [upgrade issues]

What do you mean when you say 'doesnt open like word documents do' ?
I suspect he means clicking on the .doc file opens it in MS Word, but the .xls file is opened in an IE window, rather than Excel.

[Greg McCoy]

Well, when I click on a Word document, it displays correctly. It either opens in Word or opens in Internet Explorer with the wacky Word controls (like PDFs in IE). It depends on which computer I use on what it does with Word files, so this is obviously configured on the client end.

However, when I click on Excel files, it tries to read it as ASCII text or something and I just get a bunch of gibberish in IE.

Therefore, I assume that the .xls files are linked differently than .doc files, and if .xls files are linked in the same way .doc files are linked they will open properly, but I might be totally off in assuming how this works. Sorry if this is something wrong on my end...

I tried this on a couple of computers and searched before I posted :)

[Brandon Martus]

It's probably a bug.. I'll look into it further tonight..

[Steve Howland]

It's probably a bug.. I'll look into it further tonight..
I remember that this happened before we even updated the Bulletin. I ran into this problem while trying to post team selections for Fantasy FIRST. To get around it simply save it to the desktop then open in when it is downloaded - shouldn't take more than a few seconds (browser/file size dependant).
-Diobsidian

[Joshua May]

This is a problem that occurs because IE attempts to open the Excel file, but for some reason it is not encoded right or something. In order to open Excel files from these links, you must right click the link and select 'Save As...'

Hope this helps.

[Greg McCoy]

I know...It's not really that big of a deal, I just thought I'd mention it so that the forum would work better, as some people were confused trying to figure out how to open my Excel file. Besides, I'd hate for Brandon to get bored :)

[Brandon Martus]

me? bored? ha!

i know how to fix it (had to do something very similar at work a few months ago).
i will fix tomorrow @ lunch. im tired. bed time.

[Astronouth7303]

occasionally for me, the pages are read as ASCII, not HTML. but the persistance seems to imply this isn't the case.