Internet Explorer issue

I need a snippet of code that will force a linked Word document to open up in Microsoft Word rather than in the IE 5.0 window when a user clicks on the Word document link.

Thanks!

I did that once with an excel spreadsheet. I used:

<a href="abc.xls" target="_blank">abc.xls</a>

Which tells the link to open in a new window. At the time it would actually open in Excel, but when I tried the code today, it opens in explorer. :-( I wonder if that's a new 'feature' of IE. I am certain I upgraded it at least once since the time it worked fine.

barrrt


[This message has been edited by barrrt (edited May 30, 2000).]

Hello Guys!

Did either of you come accross a solution for this yet. I try to get my *.xls files to come up in Excel and not the broswer but no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

--ThaBomb

I'm not sure of this (I'm not a excel user) but is there different ways how you save the document. I mean, "save as straight excel" or "save as webpublishing" ?

I found out that you can change the windows registry so that it will pull up in excel or words instead of pulling up inside the browser.

The steps:
1. click on the start button, then click RUN
2. type regedit
3. select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then double click on software
4. double click on classes
5. right-click on Excel.sheet.8, then select NEW, string value
6. type in BrowserFlags for the name, and 8 for the value
7. exit regedit

Now if you click on an excel link, it will bring it up in excel.

Good luck.

--ThaBomb