I'd do my best to not let MSIE open the file:

How to Configure Internet Explorer to Open Office
Documents in the Appropriate Office Program Instead of in Internet Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=162059

Robert wrote:

We have a third-party software package that runs in the browser (in our case,
IE7, now that it's been forced on us). Within that third-party software, we
can export to Excel. When that occurs, Excel is instantiated within the
browser.

In IE6, we could select View--Toolbars--Standard (or Formatting,
whatever...the usual Excel toolbars) and select the ones we wanted to see
whenever Excel was instantiated within the browser. Once chosen, they were
visible whenever an export to Excel occurred.

In IE7, EVERY SINGLE TIME WE EXPORT TO EXCEL, we must select
View--Toolbars--Standard (or Formatting, whatever...the usual Excel
toolbars) and select the ones we want to see. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

There doesn't appear to be any way to make the selected Excel toolbars static.

I have already contacted the third-party software vendor and they have
confirmed that, once exported, the data then belong to the browser and are
within the browser's control.

Does anyone have any idea what (if anything) I'm missing? Or, is this a
defect?

I've searched the internet for any help or confirmation of the defect and
I've seen nothing.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Robert

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Dave Peterson