Force the opening of a application from within HTML

Pinkeyes · 14 Jun 2007 at 09:37

Quick html question.

Is it possible to link an Excel document which forces Excel open, rather than offers the 'save as' / 'open' options ?

I want people to download a form of a website, but it changes quite often, so I don't want them to save a copy of the form, but open a new one every time they click the link.

I cannot open an embedded version within the browser as there are macros within the document that won't work.

Thanks in advance.

marc2003 · 14 Jun 2007 at 09:43

i don't think it's possible. it's all down to the user's own browser preferences. in the past he/she may have downloaded an .xls file and chosen a default action for that file type. i don't think you can over ride that.

meghatronic · 14 Jun 2007 at 10:43

See Q199841 at Microsoft (here) and http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/resources/scripts_win/article.php/3081621.

Pinkeyes · 14 Jun 2007 at 10:48

jdickerson said:
See Q199841 at Microsoft (here) and http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/resources/scripts_win/article.php/3081621.

Absolutely bloomin' marvellous !

Thanks very much for your help

psyr33n · 14 Jun 2007 at 11:17

Unfortunately that's IE only so not a true solution.

Pinkeyes · 14 Jun 2007 at 11:27

psyr33n said:
Unfortunately that's IE only so not a true solution.

No - it works for me, this is in a college environment where the users only use IE.