IE no shows Excel interactive sheets

[Pepxoc]

I designed a web using Frontpage 2000 SP3 (W98 SE, IE 6
and Excel 2000 SP3). With this configuration I have no
problem at all. I can see everything (interactive and non-
interactive sheets) and you can use the interactive Excel
sheets through Internet Explorer 6.

In other computer using W2000 (5.00.2195) SP3, IE
(5.50.4897.2300) SP2 and Excel (2002 10.4302.4219) SP2, I
can see through IE 5.5 the web pages with non-interactive
Excel sheets, but I cannot see the web pages with
interactive Excel sheets. Instead it appears on the left-
upper corner of the web page a little square with a little
colored squared, circle and triangle inside it.

I modified and trialed all the options related with
ActiveX security (IE Menu, Tools, Internet Options,
Security). I cleaned my IE history and deleted the
cookies. And I trialed 3 different ways to insert
interactive Excel sheets in a web page. But the result is
always the same: the square appears in the upper-left
corner.

I looked inside the forum but I cannot find and answer to
this problem. Can you help me?
Is the problem related with ActiveX?
Or perhaps with Office Web Components?

Thanks.

PD: I have experienced the same problem in PCs with
Windows XP Pro (last SP), IE 6 (last SP) and Excel 2002
(last SP).

 

[Rob Parsons]

I am guessing that the problem is caused by differing Activex Compatibility
between the machines. You will find a listing of ActiveX compatibility in
the Registry under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX
Compatibility. Look for CLID of your ActiveX control for the Excel
spreadsheet.
The true solution is to upgrade your 2000 machine with the same versions of
IE and Excel. It may also be that the 2000 machine does not have the
particular ActiveX spreadsheet control installed. You could fix that by
including a codebase value for the control in the html source so that it
will be downloaded and installed when the page is viewed on a machine that
does not have it installed.

 

[Pepxoc]

More information.
1. One job colleague has at home Windows XP Pro SP1 (Build
2600.xpsp2.030422-1633), IE 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-
1633, Excel XP Pro (10.4524.4219) SP2 and he can see
interactive Excel sheets.
2. Another job colleague has the same at home Windows XP
Pro SP1 (Build 2600.xpsp2.030422-1633), IE
6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633, Excel XP Pro
(10.4524.4219) SP2 but he cannot see interactive Excel
sheets.
3. Another colleague has the same home configuration with
no any SP (Service Packs) and she can see everything.
4. I have at home W98 SE, IE6 y Excel 2000 SP3 and I can
see all the interactive Excel sheets.
5. In my job computer I have W2000 (5.00.2195) SP3, IE
(5.50.4897.2300) SP2 Q822925 and Excel (2002 10.4302.4219)
SP2 and I cannot see the interactive sheets
6. Theres is another computer in our job with the same
configuration where we can see the interactive Excel
sheets. The only difference is that IE has installed the
Q330994 ("Cumulative patch for Outlook Express (330994)").
I installed this patch but I didn't solve the problem
It's curious because being a component belonging to
Outlook Express can affect at how IE show things (even if
you don't have Outlook Express). It's interesting:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?
url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-014.asp

We have 10 computers at the office with the same
configuration and we can only see the interactive Excel
sheets (we have no problems with only-seeing sheets) in 1
computer.

 

[Pepxoc]

I checked the Office Web Components installation
corresponding to the Security Update of August/20th/2002.
In the 2 computers of my job (the one where I can see the
interactive sheets and the one where I cannot see them)
there are the same files, releases and in the same
directory.
If anyone want to check it for XP are:
Owc10.dll versión 10.0.4109.0
Msowc.dll versión 9.0.0.6430
The detail is in the document:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;322382

The files are there, in the right place. But IE cannot
find them when it needs them to show the interactive Excel
sheets.
Is there any place where the location of these dll is
specified?
Perhaps in the register?