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by baadil 1 view

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We have an Intranet where we provide some excel worksheet forms for users to use. We used to use Office 97 and IE 4.x. Users would open the file, which would open in the browser. Modify the data and do file save as to save it as excel worksheet on the network for tracking purposes. Now, We upgraded to Office 2000 and IE 5.5. the problem is, they can open the files the same way, but when they try to save it with File -> Save As the only options they recieve are for HTML file type or other browser types. There are no Excel option. any suggestions?

Thank you.

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by russ werner

go to www.download.com and search for hotsql. It is a web side user of a server side spreadsheet or any odbc database file. Users can enter data directly from html page into excell spreadsheet. Cost of program is small (around $60)and learning curveis short. Users can query, add or change spreadsheet info as you have programmed from html page. May be a philosophy worth looking into? good luck...

by baadil

Thank you for your reply. But unfortunately this does not solve my issue as I do not want users to be saving to the original file. I found out what the problem was. The file was opening on a page in a sub-frame and was showing the menus of a browser(main frame). When change the link to open out of frame, I got the full excel menus.

thank you again.

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