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

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"matt" wrote in message
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I have two end users, both with IE 6.0 and Excel 97.
the problem i am having is the behavior of how IE opens an
Excel file from a link, the HTML's A tag, it looks like
http:\\servername\ex\excelfile.xls
one station will open with the Excel application by it
self while the other will open the Excel within the
browser, which doesn't open my add-in that i put on the
end-users machine.
can someone tell me what caused the different behavior and
how can i change the settings?

TIA

matt