How to launch Excel via IE

[Terry Bennett]

I have a simple web page and need one of the links to launch an Excel
spreadhseet (3 tabs) in a separate window. I have tried saving the
spreadhseet as: Web Page, Single File Web Page, XML Spreadsheet, etc but
none of these seem to work. The 'Web Page' option appears OK in the HTML
Editor but then doesn't run on the site (I have copied all of the associated
files across).

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
To open the link in a new window or tab you could use "target="_blank" See:
http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp The linked page may open in
either a new window or a new tab, depending on the user's settings.

Why are you not simply linking to the XLS file? The XLS file may or may not
open in a browser window (again) depending on the user's settings.
-
Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]


"Terry Bennett" <terry.bennett1@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> I have a simple web page and need one of the links to launch an Excel
> spreadhseet (3 tabs) in a separate window. I have tried saving the
> spreadhseet as: Web Page, Single File Web Page, XML Spreadsheet, etc but
> none of these seem to work. The 'Web Page' option appears OK in the HTML
> Editor but then doesn't run on the site (I have copied all of the
associated
> files across).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.

 

[Terry Bennett]

Thanks Don.

The .xls file doesn't show as an option in my Editor so that I can create a
link - hence the dilemma. I'm not too proficient at going straight into the
HTML code but is there a way I can create this link - it would seem the
easier option?



"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> To open the link in a new window or tab you could use "target="_blank"
> See:
> http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp The linked page may open in
> either a new window or a new tab, depending on the user's settings.
>
> Why are you not simply linking to the XLS file? The XLS file may or may
> not
> open in a browser window (again) depending on the user's settings.
> -
> Hope this helps,
> Don
> [MS MVP- IE]
>
>
> "Terry Bennett" <terry.bennett1@virgin.net> wrote in message
> news:%23KVCYZK2KHA.5680@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> I have a simple web page and need one of the links to launch an Excel
>> spreadhseet (3 tabs) in a separate window. I have tried saving the
>> spreadhseet as: Web Page, Single File Web Page, XML Spreadsheet, etc but
>> none of these seem to work. The 'Web Page' option appears OK in the HTML
>> Editor but then doesn't run on the site (I have copied all of the
> associated
>> files across).
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks.
>

 

[Terry Bennett]

Don - think I may have managed it by 'fiddling' with the code!

Thanks.


"Terry Bennett" <terry.bennett1@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> Thanks Don.
>
> The .xls file doesn't show as an option in my Editor so that I can create
> a link - hence the dilemma. I'm not too proficient at going straight into
> the HTML code but is there a way I can create this link - it would seem
> the easier option?
>
>
>
> "Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
> newsPQeGkK2KHA.5212@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>> To open the link in a new window or tab you could use "target="_blank"
>> See:
>> http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp The linked page may open in
>> either a new window or a new tab, depending on the user's settings.
>>
>> Why are you not simply linking to the XLS file? The XLS file may or may
>> not
>> open in a browser window (again) depending on the user's settings.
>> -
>> Hope this helps,
>> Don
>> [MS MVP- IE]
>>
>>
>> "Terry Bennett" <terry.bennett1@virgin.net> wrote in message
>> news:%23KVCYZK2KHA.5680@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> I have a simple web page and need one of the links to launch an Excel
>>> spreadhseet (3 tabs) in a separate window. I have tried saving the
>>> spreadhseet as: Web Page, Single File Web Page, XML Spreadsheet, etc but
>>> none of these seem to work. The 'Web Page' option appears OK in the
>>> HTML
>>> Editor but then doesn't run on the site (I have copied all of the
>> associated
>>> files across).
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>
>

 

[Rob]

Terry Bennett <terry.bennett1@virgin.net> wrote:
> Thanks Don.
>
> The .xls file doesn't show as an option in my Editor so that I can create a
> link - hence the dilemma. I'm not too proficient at going straight into the
> HTML code but is there a way I can create this link - it would seem the
> easier option?

Just create a file with the same name as your .xls but with the .htm
extension. Then link to that file. Once this is done, go to the html
view of your editor and change the .html extension into .xls. Delete
the .html file. Now it should work.

 

[Terry Bennett]

Thanks Rob

"Rob" <nomail@example.com> wrote in message
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> Terry Bennett <terry.bennett1@virgin.net> wrote:
>> Thanks Don.
>>
>> The .xls file doesn't show as an option in my Editor so that I can create
>> a
>> link - hence the dilemma. I'm not too proficient at going straight into
>> the
>> HTML code but is there a way I can create this link - it would seem the
>> easier option?
>
> Just create a file with the same name as your .xls but with the .htm
> extension. Then link to that file. Once this is done, go to the html
> view of your editor and change the .html extension into .xls. Delete
> the .html file. Now it should work.

 

[Don Varnau]

"Rob" <nomail@example.com> wrote in message
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> Terry Bennett <terry.bennett1@virgin.net> wrote:
> > Thanks Don.
> >
> > The .xls file doesn't show as an option in my Editor so that I can
create a
> > link - hence the dilemma. I'm not too proficient at going straight into
the
> > HTML code but is there a way I can create this link - it would seem the
> > easier option?

> Just create a file with the same name as your .xls but with the .htm
> extension. Then link to that file. Once this is done, go to the html
> view of your editor and change the .html extension into .xls. Delete
> the .html file. Now it should work.

Thanks Rob. I think I had a similar problem with Dreamweaver once. My
solution was to stop using Dreamweaver.

Don