I have a website with a hyperlink to an Excel spreadsheet. Some computers
are setup so that Excel opens in a browser, others open in the Excel
application. I need to know if Excel is in a browser or not - since most of
my macros don't work in a browser.

Is there code to know if this? It has to work with Excel 97 through 2003.
I'm thinking if there is something that errors out when in a browser, I could
catch that error and know that way.

Any insight is appreciated.

This is a routine posted by Ture Magnusson that may may give you some ideas:

Sub CheckIfInInternetExplorer()
Dim x As Object
'Try to get container object
On Error Resume Next
Set x = ActiveWorkbook.Container
On Error GoTo 0

'Show result depending on container's typename
Select Case TypeName(x)
Case "Nothing"
MsgBox "The workbook is opened in Excel"
Case "IWebBrowser2"
MsgBox "The workbook is opened in Internet Explorer"
Case Else
MsgBox "The workbook is opened in another application: " & TypeName(x)
End Select
End Sub

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"Ken Valenti" <Ken wrote in message
...
|I have a website with a hyperlink to an Excel spreadsheet. Some computers
| are setup so that Excel opens in a browser, others open in the Excel
| application. I need to know if Excel is in a browser or not - since most
of
| my macros don't work in a browser.
|
| Is there code to know if this? It has to work with Excel 97 through 2003.
| I'm thinking if there is something that errors out when in a browser, I
could
| catch that error and know that way.
|
| Any insight is appreciated.

This would be perfect, but I can't get it to work in 97 or 2003.

If I take out on error resume next, it always errors out. Either in a
browser or application. Is there a reference I am missing?'

"Jim Rech" wrote:

This is a routine posted by Ture Magnusson that may may give you some ideas:

Sub CheckIfInInternetExplorer()
Dim x As Object
'Try to get container object
On Error Resume Next
Set x = ActiveWorkbook.Container
On Error GoTo 0

'Show result depending on container's typename
Select Case TypeName(x)
Case "Nothing"
MsgBox "The workbook is opened in Excel"
Case "IWebBrowser2"
MsgBox "The workbook is opened in Internet Explorer"
Case Else
MsgBox "The workbook is opened in another application: " & TypeName(x)
End Select
End Sub

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"Ken Valenti" <Ken wrote in message
...
|I have a website with a hyperlink to an Excel spreadsheet. Some computers
| are setup so that Excel opens in a browser, others open in the Excel
| application. I need to know if Excel is in a browser or not - since most
of
| my macros don't work in a browser.
|
| Is there code to know if this? It has to work with Excel 97 through 2003.
| I'm thinking if there is something that errors out when in a browser, I
could
| catch that error and know that way.
|
| Any insight is appreciated.