How Open Helper App Outside of Browser

[Bob]

Hello any help would be great.

I have Win2k, IE 6.

Situation:
When I select a browser link that is associated with an
application the application opens "inside the browser."
(example click on an XLS link and Excel opens up inside
the browser , same with Adobe PDF's etc.

Normally this is OK, Sometimes I would like to have the
full functionality of the Helper Application and no
Browser.

Question: IS there a way that I can select a hot key
combo (or somethign similar) that will force the selected
object to open up in a separate Application (EXCEL /
Adobe)? I know that I can save the file and then manually
open it but I am looking for a shorter way.

THANKS

 

[Ted]

Go to Explorer, Tools, Folder Options, File Types, Sroll
to the application extention (xls or pdf) Select Advanced,
make sure Browse in same window is not checked.

This will make it so the helper app will never open in the
browser...