Date:         Thu, 13 Apr 2006 23:31:29 -0400
Reply-To:     Don Henderson <donaldjhenderson@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Henderson <donaldjhenderson@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Excel download
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Leonora,

I have to say that your description of the problem is not clear to me. So I
will first try to restate a few things in hopes that you can clarify what
you mean.

First, when you say:

        We have an application that uses
        Microsoft Excel 2000(9.03821 SR-1)
        to do an excel download

I assume that you mean that you are downloading a file from a web server
(either a static file with a file type on server of xls, or output streamed
back from a server via a program that is creating a tab or comma separated
file) and that you want it opened in Excel.

Second, when you say:

        The report opened in an "Internet Version"
        of Excel (not Excel itself)

I assume you mean that it was opened in something that appears to you to
look like Excel but it opened Excel within IE as opposed to launching Excel
in its own window. I have never heard of an "Internet Version of Excel" and
so I am at a loss as to what else you could mean by this.

If both of my guesses are correct, then the issue is probably a setting
somewhere. There is an option (and perhaps the Alan the Microsoft guru can
point you to where) that specifies whether MS Office "files" are opened in
IE or whether the MS Office app (e.g., Excel, Word, etc.) is separately
launched.

HTH,
-don h

-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan
Churchill
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:51 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Excel download

Check your file associations in Windows Explorer and make sure that the .xls
file type is associated with Excel.

--> Tools --> Folder Options --> File Types

A hunch.

Alan

Alan Churchill
Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies"
www.savian.net


-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Leonora
cru
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 7:39 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Excel download

Hi SAS-L,

We have an application that uses Microsoft Excel
2000(9.03821 SR-1) to do an excel download. The file
download successfully opens the Excel
window. Just recently, the version  was upgraded to
Microsoft Excel 2003 (11.8012 SP 2).  The File
Download window did not open this time.  The report
opened in an "Internet Version" of Excel (not Excel
itself).

Has anyone experienced this problem before?  What
resolution did you come up with? Do we need to change
the settings?  If so, what are the changes?

TIA.