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Asked: 2026-05-15T07:38:04+00:00

Bill James wrote : I was able to render an HTML page with the

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Bill James wrote:

I was able to render an HTML page with the MIME type set to “application/msword”, which caused the browser to spawn Word which imported the html just fine, allowing edits and saving just as if I’d output a real Word doc.

That sounds great to me, but I haven’t been able to get it to work in any browser (Chrome/FF/Safari/Opera/IE on Win7 running Word 2010 beta). I tried changing the MIME type in the HTTP headers of several pages via Tamper Data to application/msword, and I tried using the http-equiv meta tag <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="application/msword"> on a local HTML file I tried opening from the browser, but neither appeared to have any effect.

I don’t really have a clue with regard to HTTP headers and MIME types generally, so – any tips? Many thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    It might well be that your user agent out-smarts you on that. Is it possible for you to rely on the file extension as well?

    I implemented a related solution for Microsoft Excel, generating a HTML table but exposing it as a .xls file. Excel then complains about the mismatch between expected data format and the one it found, but at least Excel was opened.

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