Internet Explorer opens a local copy
 

I am running IE6 and Office 2003. When I link from a web page to an excel
document (example <a href="file://\\server\folder\file.xls"click here</a),
I get book1.xls (with the correct information) instead of the file I'm trying
to open. The reason that this is a problem is that the original file has
hyperlinks to other excel docs in it, and they are relative, rather than
absolute. So if file.xls has a link to file2.xls, it can't be found because
the file2.xls doesn't exist locally.

I've done some digging and I found that this was a known issue in Office 97,
and I've tried the solutions but I can't get it working.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help.