Opening Excel in Browser

[DKL01]

Hi,

I have an ASP page with few links to mapped to excel files residing in virtual directory. I have seen some web applications in which excel / word documents open in the browser. But in my case it opens a new instance of excel application. I'm using following code for links.

<td> <a href='/sample/reports/fin_report.xls' target=&quot;_blank&quot;>Finance</a> <td>

I really appreciate any suggestions/ideas.

Thanks

 

[SPYDERIX]

Does the excel document actually open microsoft excel in a new window, or does it just open a new explorer window with the excel document embedded in it?

I used your code and what mine did was open a new window with the excel document in it. (opened an explorer window)

Try modifying your code slightly to this:
<tr><td><a href=&quot;abc.xls&quot;>Finance</a><td></tr>
your quotation marks weren't the right kind, but that probably doesn't matter, and try removing the target attribute like I did above.

What version of explorer are you using? I am using MSIE 6.0!



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