My default browser is Netscape, but when I click on a URL in an Excel
worksheet cell, it automatically uses MS Internet Explorer. How can I change
this so it uses my default browser?

Guessing here
In a file browser (Explore), in Tools, Folder Options, FileTypes is a
type of URL
Check if this is set to open IE, and if so try pointing it to your
Netscape browser.

ps, remember what it was before you changed it so that you can restore
it if required.


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..HTM and .HTML were both already set to Netscape. I changed .SHTML to point
to Netscape instead of MSIE. Unfortunately this didn't change Excel's
behavior.

Could this be built in, as a prejudice Microsoft has for users of Excel to
use MSIE and not competing products?

Ed

"Bryan Hessey" wrote:


Guessing here
In a file browser (Explore), in Tools, Folder Options, FileTypes is a
type of URL
Check if this is set to open IE, and if so try pointing it to your
Netscape browser.

ps, remember what it was before you changed it so that you can restore
it if required.


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I think it's built in (I've never found a way to change this behavior).

But if you click a link in NS Messenger, it'll start up NS Communicator. So it
looks like it's a common "feature".

Ed Isenberg wrote:

.HTM and .HTML were both already set to Netscape. I changed .SHTML to point
to Netscape instead of MSIE. Unfortunately this didn't change Excel's
behavior.

Could this be built in, as a prejudice Microsoft has for users of Excel to
use MSIE and not competing products?

Ed

"Bryan Hessey" wrote:


Guessing here
In a file browser (Explore), in Tools, Folder Options, FileTypes is a
type of URL
Check if this is set to open IE, and if so try pointing it to your
Netscape browser.

ps, remember what it was before you changed it so that you can restore
it if required.


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and did you also have a URL filetype ?


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There were several, but all of them were assigned to "NONE". Should I have
copied the OPEN instructions from the HTM file type to all of the URL types?
As much as I want a solution to this pain--in-the-butt problem, I am
reluctant to mess too much with stuff I don't thoroughly understand.

Ed

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and did you also have a URL filetype ?


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Hi Dave.

Ed, this smells 'built-in' as Dave says, but Windows operates through
the registry via links (the text 'iexplore.exe is not held within the
Excel program), it was just a guess/hope that the link was via the
filetype that seems to control other similar linkage.


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And I've never been able to change the program that opened URLs. I figured it
was hard-wired within excel.

If you (or anyone else) figures out a way, please post!

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Hi Dave.

Ed, this smells 'built-in' as Dave says, but Windows operates through
the registry via links (the text 'iexplore.exe is not held within the
Excel program), it was just a guess/hope that the link was via the
filetype that seems to control other similar linkage.

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Dave and Ed,

In regard to Excel opening Netscape, it is possible, . . but you
wouldn't want to do it.

I downloaded Netscape and Firefox to test and, after removing all
references to IExplore in the FileTypes I then attacked the registry,
the last key before getting some success was:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{0002DF0 1-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\LocalServer32]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Netscape\\Netscape Browser\\Netscape.exe\""

but be warned, . . . I do NOT reccommend adjusting the registry, I will
fix mine again tomorrow.
... ... Both Excel and MS Word now use Netscape for the URL
Links.

Perhaps there is a better way.

My son also uses XP and uses Firefox for his browsing, which he has
used for some months.
His system uses Firefox to open both URL Links (from Excel and MS
Word). The setting he used is found in SET PROGRAM ACCESS AND DEFAULTS,
a selection in Add Remove Programs, but this 'setting' option takes a
little kicking to convince, like all modern Windows *stuff* it allows
you to make those changes it feels you should make and restores half of
them later.


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I think I believe you <bg. I'll stay away from that registry tweak.

Bryan Hessey wrote:

Dave and Ed,

In regard to Excel opening Netscape, it is possible, . . but you
wouldn't want to do it.

I downloaded Netscape and Firefox to test and, after removing all
references to IExplore in the FileTypes I then attacked the registry,
the last key before getting some success was:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{0002DF0 1-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\LocalServer32]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Netscape\\Netscape Browser\\Netscape.exe\""

but be warned, . . . I do NOT reccommend adjusting the registry, I will
fix mine again tomorrow.
.. ... Both Excel and MS Word now use Netscape for the URL
Links.

Perhaps there is a better way.

My son also uses XP and uses Firefox for his browsing, which he has
used for some months.
His system uses Firefox to open both URL Links (from Excel and MS
Word). The setting he used is found in SET PROGRAM ACCESS AND DEFAULTS,
a selection in Add Remove Programs, but this 'setting' option takes a
little kicking to convince, like all modern Windows *stuff* it allows
you to make those changes it feels you should make and restores half of
them later.

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