R,
Maybe this will help?...
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;162059
"How to configure Internet Explorer to open Office documents in
the appropriate Office program instead of in Internet Explorer"
Jim cone
San Francisco, USA


"RAGHAVAN JAYARAMAN"

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We have reporting application which downloads the data into Excel and it opens
a new Excel window for Excel version 2000 and 2002 sp2/sp3 properly , but in
case of Excel 2003 it directly opens in IE . Is there a way , we can prevent
this or is this the behavior with IE 6 and Excel 2003.
Any help in this regard is appreciated!
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