Opening File in Excel from IE Shortcut

[Thomas M.]

Excel 2003

I would like to have a shortcut in my IE list of Favorites that opens an
Excel file *in* Excel. I created a shortcut to the Excel .EXE file and then
tried adding the file name (with full path) to the end of that command, and
I've played around with a few other things like changing the Start In value
in the shortcut properties, but thus far I have not been able to make this
work. The best I've been able to do is make Excel open to a blank
worksheet, or to make my worksheet open in IE. But I can't get my worksheet
to open in Excel from an IE Favorite. Can this be done, and if so, how?

FYI, some people might wonder why I want to do this. It's just a
convenience thing. I have a number of Favorites in IE that deal with a
certain subject and all those Favorites are listed in one folder. I also
have some information on that same subject that needs to be stored in an
Excel file. Often times I am in IE when I discover information that needs
to be added to the Excel file. Being able to link to the Excel file from IE
(and have the file actually open in Excel) provides a kind of one-stop
shopping so that I can access any of the data, be it web-based or stored
locally, from one set of links.

--Tom

 

[Bob I]

Open I.E. and then open the "Favorites" pane, now open the folder with
the excel file, r-click and drag the file to the "IE" icon in the task
bar, wait for IE to get the focus, then drop the "file" into the
favorites pane and select "Create shortcut here".

 

[Thomas M.]

That method creates a shortcut that will open the file in IE. What I'm
trying to do is create a shortcut within IE that will open the file in
*Excel*. I'm thinking that I need a command-line switch in my shortcut
properties, but all the command-line switches that I've found online don't
seem to apply.

--Tom

 

[Bob I]

Not here it doesn't, Excel opens it. Maybe you have IE set differently.
Perhaps start looking in your Internet Options settings, Advanced. If
you are unsuccesful in discovering the bit to toggle, you could ask the
folks in the Internet Explorer group how to break the "connection".

 

[Thomas M.]

Interesting. That's the way I tried to do it in the first place (before I
posted the original message), and I just tried it again using a new Excel
file as a test, and it still opens in IE. I also tried it on another
computer and I get the same behavior--it opens in IE). Finally, I checked
my file types in Windows Explorer and the Internet Options in IE, but I
don't see anything that would cause this problem.

At any rate, I'll check with the IE group and see what they know. At this
point my guess is that an IE setting is involved here.

Thanks for your help.

--Tom

 

[Dave Peterson]

Maybe this will help. I didn't test it.

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

 

[Dave Peterson]

I didn't test in your situation. It works when download a file, though.