I need to find out how to download a Excel file and have it launch the stand alone excel application, not open Excel inside of the browser.

You loose a lot of the Excel functionallity when it is opened in the browser. This is not acceptable for my client.

Thanks for the feedback.

This is a setting on the users pc that must be changed....

You could give instructions on how to do this...

1. Run regedit
2. Click on Local Machine
3. CLick on Software
4. Click on Classes
5. Locate the excel document
6. Click on the excel doc folder
7. On the right of the screen right click and select New DWord Value
8. Enter New DWord Value 'BrowserFlags' (Case sensitive)
9. Open the DWord value created and Change the Value Data to '8'.

Done.

Regards
Vince

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Vince,

Thank you very much for the reply. This solution works great for Windows NT machines but didn't seem to work on 2000. Is there anything different that I might need to dofor 2000?

Thanks again for the reply,
Brandon

If the user is using Excel 2000 I forgot to mention that you must change the flag data value to 9 not 8 (no idea why...stumped me for ages)

SO when you see the list of excel doc types all are set to data value 8 is is just the excel 8 doc type that is changed to 9.



Regards
Vince

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