launch an excel doc in excel, not in browser

[ale77]

Hello
I would like to know how to open an excel file in the excel applicacion instead of Internet Explorer or other browser.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Run Excel, click "File", then "Open", and select the file you want.

Dan

 

[FesterSXS]

Do a search on Automation. You'll probably find a few of my threads there as I did a project on this a few years back - having links in a web page open the clients version of Word, Powerpoint and Excel.


Tony

http://www.SpiraxSarco.com

 

[ale77]

Thanks for your replies.

FesterSXS, I search for the subject, and I also saw all of your threads but I did't find anything.

BillyRayPreachersSon, what I want is to create in html a link to a file and then open this file. The file has an excel xsl extension. There is a component in Internet Explorer that opens office documents in the same browser. What I want is that the file opens in the excel application and not in the browser because I need all of the EXCEL features that are not in the browser.

I may not be doing this in the right way. The problem is that I have an html table. Users need to see this in EXCEL because they are more use to work in EXCEL and they want to play with the data in the table.

I did this:

<%@page contentType="text/html"%>
<%response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");%>

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" Height="0" border="1" width="800" ID="Table1">
.
.
.
</table>

and I saved the file with xls extension. When it opens, it shows the table in Internet Explorer like an EXCEL spreadsheet. But, like I said before, I want to find a way to open the fiel in the EXCEL application and not in Internet Explorer.

I hope this is not too confusion

 

[ggriffit]

What the browser does with any Content Type it is passed depends on how the browser has been configured in the MIME Types settings. You can't amend this from the webside.

http://www.greggriffiths.org/webdev/both/excel/

may also be of interest.