Open Excel files linked on web page in Excel instead of IE?

[Rich Young]

Have a problem I hope someone can help with. Our office Intranet has links
to .xls files, but when you click on the link it opens Excel from within IE,
and you have to go in and manually select the Excel toolbars to display etc.
As these xls files are opened frequently to price out jobs over the phone,
it's not practical to have to manually select the nessesary toolbars etc
every time the link is clicked on. Is there a way to bypass IE and open the
file directly in Excel, or have all the "normal" elements of Excel displayed
by default when Excel launches with IE? Thanks for any advice I can get on
this!

 

[Dave Peterson]

In win98, I can do this:
Start Windows Explorer
View|Folder Options
File Types Tab
scroll down to MS Excel Worksheet
Select it
click the edit button
There's an option to "browse in same window". Uncheck it.

That's where you can toggle the "confirm open after download", too.

How to Configure Internet Explorer to Open Office
Documents in the Appropriate Office Program Instead of in Internet Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=162059

Might help you set it up the way you want.

(or can you teach them to save it to their harddisks and open from there?)