Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 01/08/06 20:52

Stan McCann wrote:

> Jose <teacherjh@aol.nojunk.com> wrote in
> news:ZXRvf.1443$PG.1304@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com:
>
>
>>Interestingly, an excel file opens Excel if browsed from Netscape,
>>but it opens from within an IE window by default, which means that
>>some viewers are stuck with browser chrome, and others are not.
>
>
> Not on my Linux system or on my laptop that I don't have Office
> installed on. In both cases, I get a download prompt.
>
The point Stan is making here is all depends on how your system and
browser is configured. Excel file downloads if in Netscape and I have
Office, but I have Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox to save to file not open
with default application

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Jonathan
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