Drop down menus not working when veiwing excel file in IE6

[Lonnie]

I have users running both Win2k and WinXP with Office XP, both fully
patched experiencing the following issue.

When users open an excel file in IE some of the drop down menu items
do not work. The File menu works but Edit, View, Insert, Format,
Tools, Data,
and Adobe PDF buttons do nothing. The Go to, Favorites and Help along
with the File menus function.

All the drop down menus were working fine up too a few weeks ago.

I can open the spreadsheet within Excel (not in a browser) and the
buttons function correctly.

Does anyone know why/how/when this feature stopped working? I get
nothing when I press any button except
the ones mentioned above. I am running Windows XP with Office XP and
the drop down menus work fine for me. I have other users who are
running the same OS, Office ver, and patch level that cannot use the
menus.

Thanks,

Lonnie Paschall

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Does anyone know why/how/when this feature stopped working?

Perhaps it uses a BHO? Did you recently follow others' suggestions
about unchecking
Enable third-party browser extensions (requires restart)

 

[Barney Evans]

Robert, I have the problem as well with all machines running Windows 2000 or
XP with IE6. I tried your suggestion with no luck. This is a big problem for
my office as we use excel files on our intranet. Does anyone else have a
suggestion?


Thanks

Barney