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Create a dowload on frontpage

Johnny Boy

2004-07-29, 7:16 pm

Being a total novice with frontpage, could someone please help me. I
need to let people download a power point presentation, but not sure
how to go about it. please help i'm desperate.

Thanks

Mark Fitzpatrick

2004-07-29, 7:16 pm

To make any file available for download, just use the File | Import File
function in FP and import the file into your web. Then you can link to it
just like you would a web page. You may want to put things like a PowerPoint
presentation or Word document into a Zip file to prevent their browser from
trying to open the file (IE will open a linked Word Document inside IE for
example) and just placing the zipped file into the web and linking to it.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

"Johnny Boy" <john@tenerifeholidayshop.com> wrote in message
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> Being a total novice with frontpage, could someone please help me. I
> need to let people download a power point presentation, but not sure
> how to go about it. please help i'm desperate.
>
> Thanks

Andrew Murray

2004-07-30, 12:15 pm

Create the web page, then import the powerpoint file into frontpage web (File >
Import)....then create the hyperlink to the Powerpoint file.

Do you want it to open online (straightaway) or do you want people to download it
and open it on their machines - I suggest you also link to the download for the
powerpoint viewer on www.microsoft.com because some people may not have MS Office
or the full Powerpoint application.

"Johnny Boy" <john@tenerifeholidayshop.com> wrote in message
news:e42e75ce.0407291337.7110a67e@posting.google.com...
> Being a total novice with frontpage, could someone please help me. I
> need to let people download a power point presentation, but not sure
> how to go about it. please help i'm desperate.
>
> Thanks

Chris Chandler

2004-07-30, 12:15 pm

"Andrew Murray" <SPAMadBUSTERmurray@iinet.net.au> wrote in
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> Do you want it to open online (straightaway) or do you want people to
> download it and open it on their machines - I suggest you also link to
> the download for the powerpoint viewer on www.microsoft.com because some
> people may not have MS Office or the full Powerpoint application.

you can try putting it into a private folder and linking to it fomr therer. I
think that will give the option of downloading it