Can I Run Excel From Internet Explorer?

[Kenji]

When an user visits my webpage and clicks on an Excel link, I want him/her
to download the excel sheet and open it.

In Windows, the Excel sheet opens in Internet Explorer, I want to somewhat
immitate that. Any tips would be helpful.

Kenji

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Kenji,

You actually like that behavior? To each his own. LOL.

On the Macintosh the only application that I know of that uses that horrible
(of course you not agree!) model is Adobe Acrobat Reader. On the Mac,
Microsoft Office documents open in office applications. Personally, I'm glad
that's the way it works.

Clearly there are people who like what you are requesting, but it will
probably never happen on IE for the Mac, since Internet Explorer is a
discontinued product that will not get any new features (both Mac and
Windows).

You could ask Apple to add this functionality to Safari and then by default
they would have to give that code for free to open source. That way other
open source based browsers could take advantage of the feature, too.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/

-Jim

 

[Kenji]

Thanks Jim,
I personally hate that behavior, but it was a request from the customer.

Is there a way to automate Microsoft Excel to launch when the document is
downloaded?

Thanks!

Kenjiro Yagi

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi again,

Yes, you can set Internet Explorer to launch Excel and open the received
file whenever any Excel file type is received.

In Internet Explorer's preferences click in the "receiving files" section on
"file helpers."

Click on the word "Application" in the window to alphabetize the list of
applications.

Find all of the Excel file types. Click the "change" button and adjust the
Handling section to "Post Process with Application" for any file type that
you want to automatically open with Excel.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Kenji]

Awesome! Now, I'm trying to set this up for thousands of users. Is there a
way to make this preference change through a javascript or some kind of web
script so they don't have to go through the IE preference? Thanks =)

Kenjiro Yagi

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Kenji,

There may be a way, but I hope not. I would consider any script that had the
ability to get into the preferences like that a potential security risk.

You might be able to figure out which preference file contains that
information then give everyone a copy of it. They may lose other
customizations they have made (auto-fill for example) if you take that
approach.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

All responses should be made to this newsgroup within the same thread.
Thanks.

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http://www.mvps.org/

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