# MS-Word on the web

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-word-on-the-web/31479>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 31, 2000, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-word-on-the-web/31479 "2000-08-31T13:31:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-word-on-the-web/31479/1 "2000-08-31T13:31:17Z")

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A while back I tried to upload a Word document onto my web-page so that people could download it if they wanted to. It didn’t work. The FTP finished correctly (I was using CuteFTP) but when I looked for the document on my page it wasn’t there.

Can I upload a Word document, have a link to it, and have it start up Word to view the document? If so, how? Could it be that I just didn’t have enough space on my server its about 100K and I already have several pics on my 2-MB page)? Or is there some reason it can’t be done?

If it can be done (and you have an example or instructions), please LMK!

Thanx.

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**Author:** ![dylan\_73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@dylan\_73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dylan_73)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-word-on-the-web/31479/2 "2000-08-31T14:11:14Z")

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Hiya,

I guess my first question is: how did you know it wasn’t there? If you connect again with CuteFTP can you see the file on the server side?

If you just made a link to it, and tried to use that, is it possible that you got the case wrong? It might be case-sensitive, so if you had MyDocument.doc a link with \<a href=mydocument.doc\>here\</a\> wouldn’t work.

I’d connect with the ftp again and just make sure it’s there. I have to ask, is there a reason that you can’t just convert the doc to html, so that anyone can read it? Not everyone has msword.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-word-on-the-web/31479/3 "2000-08-31T15:02:26Z")

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You need to refresh your file listing after uploading sometimes.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-word-on-the-web/31479/4 "2000-09-01T01:35:27Z")

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It worked! No idea why it didn’t before; or perhaps I just missed it. Thanks for the help!

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2000, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-word-on-the-web/31479/5 "2000-09-01T09:31:55Z")

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I’ve had a lot of problems using CuteFTP to upload Word documents, then linking them to webpages. I don’t know whether the problem lies with Windows 98 (which I use) or CuteFTP, but it nearly always lies with upper case vs lower case file extensions or filenames.