Link to word doc in Mx7

We just moved up to MX7. I have some stagnant word documents
attached to my site. Now when people click the link to open them,
they get gooblygook before the text. Also all formatting (bold/etc)
is gone. Why is cf not just pulling this up to open? Can I not just
link to a word doc or do I have to convert it to a pdf/other
format?
Thanks,
J

We have no such problem with our links to word documents in
MX 7. Can
you provide some pieces of your code?
If you are just doing direct links, there should be no
trouble, ie.
<a href="a/path/to/a/word/doc/file.doc">Open this word
file</a>

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