Excel 2000 Viewer and Netscape Hyperlink

[Robert I]

I'm trying to launch an Excel 2000 spreadsheet from
Netscape Navigator 4.7, but when I do it launches it with
the Excel 2000 Viewer, which messes up hyperlinks in the
spreadsheet. The excel doc opens in the C:/temp folder
instead on the folder it is suppossed to. Often with a
gibberish name instead of the actual file name. I think
I'm looking for a way to get Netscape to open the actual
excel 2000 appliation instead of the default viewer.
Thoughts?

 

[Ken Wright]

As far as I know the viewer should not really be installed on a machine that
actually has Excel installed.


Quote from MS viewer site:-
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...49-91DA-4110-8595-4A960D3E1C7C&displaylang=EN

Note The Excel 97/2000 Viewer is recommended for use with a stand-alone computer
that does not have Excel installed. It is not suitable for use on a server.

 

[Dave Peterson]

If you make sure you haven't got an existing file with the same name already in
your Temp folder, then Netscape will use the current name. (But when we were
using NS4.78 at work, it would either name the temp file version something else
or just lock up.)

Are you using the =hyperlink() worksheet function:

David McRitchie posted this and it might help you:

=HYPERLINK("#"&CELL("address",C5),C5)
=HYPERLINK("#"&CELL("address",sheetone!C5),sheetone!C5)
=HYPERLINK("#"&CELL("address",'sheet two'!C5),'sheet two'!C5)

(It kind of sounded like you were including the workbook name in the hyperlink.)