Open Excel File from IE7 Shortcut

[Thomas M.]

XP SP2
Excel 2003
IE 7

I have a simple Excel file that I often need to access when I am browsing
the web. I don't access the file often so I sometimes forget where it's
stored. To get around that problem I decided to create a shortcut to the
file and then add that shortcut to my IE7 favorites just to make it more
convenient to access the file.

IE7 will open the file, but it opens in IE7, which means that I don't have
access to the Excel menus and toolbars. I would like to have the file open
in Excel. Toward that end I put the following command in the Target field
of the shortcut:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e "Y:\Terms.xls"

This works on a Windows 2000 machine running IE6 and Excel 2000, but on my
machine running the software noted at the top of this message, it opens
Excel separately but with a blank worksheet. Drive Y is a network drive,
but I tried the same command pointing to My Documents and got the same
results.

How can I make a shortcut in IE7 open the file in Excel?

--Tom

 

[Dave Peterson]

How to Configure Internet Explorer to Open Office
Documents in the Appropriate Office Program Instead of in Internet Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=162059

 

[Thomas M.]

Perfect! That's exactly what I was looking for, but I was looking in IE
instead of Windows Explorer. However, to make it work I did have to redo my
shortcut so that the Target field contains only: Y:\Terms.xls.

--Tom