CFContent question

[NoWayIsThisInUse]

I am creating reports that output as either html or to Excel. If the user checks the &quot;Output to Excel format&quot; checkbox, I use <cfcontent type=&quot;application/vnd.ms-excel&quot; reset=&quot;Yes&quot;> to display it as a spreadsheet (in the browser). This seems to work fine on most computers. All users are using IE, but versions vary from 5.0 and up. Some users have Office 2000 loaded, some having '97 (although I wouldn't think that would be the problem).
The user is presented with a dialog box to &quot;Open from...&quot; or to &quot;Save to...&quot; when it works correctly; otherwise, it seems to have an application error such as &quot;Floating field...&quot;. Any suggestions?

 

[Krogh]

hi,
you must know that CFContent will only change the &quot;Content-type&quot; of the HTTP header.
So the problem is client side, you should check if there's no missing component for embedding excel into the browser.
Try also other MIME into CFContent such as &quot;application/msexcel&quot;, maybe it will not call the same version of the spreadsheet object..