I have created forms as Excel templates and posted them to a webpage
on the company intranet. When I open them from Firefox, I get a copy -
not the original template - which is just the behavior I want.

However, when I open the template file across the intranet with
Internet Explorer, I get the original template itself - definitely not
the right behavior. Then when I browse to another page, IE offers to
save changes back to the original template file. DEFINITELY not the
behavior I want.

This happens whether I set File Types to open the Excel files
separately in Excel or within a browser window.

Is there any way to control the behavior of an Excel template link in
IE so that a copy - and not the original file - opens? I have a small
user-base, so modifying IE or Windows on each machine is possible.

(I need to keep the users standardized on IE, although I prefer FF.)

TIA.

Bob