Hi Mike,

Thanks for the reply.

To expand on the problem a little.

I came across a list on a french website of 3725 french words which french
children are expected to know
by the age of 16. I thought they would be useful for improving my french
vocabulary.

I imported the list into a column in an excel spreadsheet. Then using an
online translation engine, I cut
and pasted lists of words into the translator, translated, and cut and
pasted the
result back to the spreadhseet to get a second column in the spreadsheet
with
a single english word equivalent. Unfortunately this proved not to be very
accurate in a lot of cases. The translation engine not knowing in what
context
to take a word, noun, verb adjective etc, and in other cases, just getting
the translation
wrong.

Therefore in order to check and expand on the english translation, I found
a french online dictionary. I added a 3rd column in which I got excel to
automatically generate
a hyperlink to lookup the word in the dictionary. So I can now
scan down the list and with a single click look up a word. Based on the
result, I can change or add additional words to the english translation in
the second column.

Since its a work in progress it needs to be in an easily editable format.
Excel is ideal, but has the unfortunate IE side effect.

Making constant changes to the document in HTML format would be
considerably more of a pain, than changing a cell in a spreadsheet.

Perhaps its time to write a program.





Using an online translation engine, and a bit of cut and paste
"Mike" wrote in message
...
that feature would only work on a shortcut already displayed in IE
Only workaround is to convert the spreadsheet into Word then Save As html
then open that file in IE. That would work...

"Paul Hodges" wrote:

Hi,

How do I prevent excel starting a new instance of internet explorer
whenever
I click on a hyperlink in a spreadsheet.
I have a spreadsheet with 3000+ rows. Each row has a cell with a
hyperlink,
so the instances of IE can build up very quickly.
The IE/Advanced option "Reuse windows for launching shortcuts" is ticked,
but does not appear to have any effect.

Paul