Download Excel file 
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In my website I have a section for students to download course materials. PDFs are easy but I also wish to add a facility for them to download an EXcel file, not view it or use it online but actually download it to their hard disk. Is there afacility I can use for this? Putting the Excel file as a link is not working.
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Try this;
https://market.websitex5.com/en/objects/ca0b2570-2b30-4351-a139-337898ed2e
this object has costs, else the only way is to make a zip file or similar, or make a note to use right mouse button in a link ->download (if you have not disabled this)
live example:
https://andreweb.nl/x5_test/d_load-button.html
Also see this : https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_html_download_link.asp
This method is for free.
You can have an icon for a xls file and then it could be something like this :
<a href="/yourfilefordownload/excelfile.xls" download>
<img src="/yourclickableicon/excelimageimage.jpg" alt="Excelfile" width="104" height="142">
</a>
You put this in a html object and then you will have an iconm shown that when clicked will start the download.
And just with clickable text "Excelfile1" shown
<a href="/yourfilefordownload/excelfile.xls" download>Excelfile1</a>