How to Force a Link in a Post to Download

Posted by SRedrup on Jun 22, 2016; 9:42am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/How-to-Force-a-Link-in-a-Post-to-Download-tp7596875.html

I have a Nabble forum on which I want to create Posts with File Links for Downloading.
I am having a problem with Word Document Files (.dotx).
When you click on the link instead of starting a download it attempts to open the file contents in the Browser which is showing as garbled text.

How can I edit the link so that a Download is Forced?

I know you can right click and choose Save Target As but you then have to change the extension (default shows as .html). Although this works, this is a bit too technical and fiddly for the kind of people who use my forum.
Therefore a method to force the download would be much better.

Any help Please?