At 09:13 PM 7/17/2002, Boris Mann wrote: >wouldn't it be nice to link to a >free ".DOC viewer" application for those that don't have Word installed? Which is available from Microsoft's web site for free. Here's the link for all of you: Waitamminit! Better make that a tip. (sneaky MadMan likes to keep his tip count positive in dubious ways) <tip type="Improving the user experience" author="Madhu Menon"> If you're going to offer MS Word DOC files for download from your site, consider that not everyone may have Word installed on his or her system, despite the ubiquity of MS Office. Do the nice thing and point people to Microsoft's free Word document viewer. You can't edit files with it, but you can view them. The link to use for the download page is: http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/wd97vwr32.aspx OR http://tinyurl.com/p62 Direct link to file (could change in the future): http://download.microsoft.com/download/word2000/wd97vwr/2000/WIN98/EN-US/wd97vwr32.exe OR http://tinyurl.com/p60 (the TinyURL service may not be perpetually available either) </tip> Regards, Madhu <<< * >>> Madhu Menon User Experience Consultant e-mail: webguru at vsnl.net