cfcontent/cfheader with word 2007

Wow, that looks... uh... messy. Good find scooter5791.

You still should be able to generate the document as the usual .doc file (which Word will still be able to recognize). Otherwise, you can try one of the following:

1) Do a search on the CF sites to see if anyone has written a CFX tag for creating a .docx file
2) check out the Java Jakarta POI project. They have a java object that allows you to read from/write to .doc files (though its still in development and I'm not sure they've tacked .docx yet)
3) Try to find some documentation on the .docx file format and recreate it in CF.

Seems like most of those are more effort than its really worth. I'd say if you can find a CFX tag out there (might be tricky due to .docx being fairly new), then your best bet is to go with .doc

Maybe that's it Michael. Maybe because it is a dynamic document (there is no path, no ready-made docx document, just a dynamic member list bkbk) with html, maybe the 2007 word can only deal with style sheets? I'll do a test with just text and see if that gets corrupted. update: i stripped out the html and it still gets corrupted. So I guess the fact that it saves it as html must be what is corrupting it like you said. now what..

Indeed, Michael. Docx is not only new MIME, it is more zip than doc technology.

I wonder if the word 2007 .docx format can accept HTML formatting. After all, for previous versions of word, you're creating an html file with a .doc extension that Word knows how to translate into a wordprocessing document. Has anyone had any success doing the same for .docx?

I was thinking you're using some simple text just to test. It now sounds like you have a full-blown .docx file that you want the client to download. If that be so, include the path of the file. For example,

<cfcontent type="application/unknown" file="c:\docx\testFile.docx">
or
<cfcontent type="application/octet-stream" file="c:\docx\testFile.docx">

same code, however, with .docx and type="application/unknown" or type="application/octet-stream"

And when you place this at the top of the page, with no space in the file name?

<CFHEADER NAME="content-disposition" VALUE="attachment; filename=MembershipList.doc">
<cfcontent type="application/msword">