My problem occurs only for Excel files from a SharePoint 2003 WSS2.
I meet the problem with all versions of Internet Explorer
Details of the problem:
When clicking on the Excel file (screen 1) a pop-up appears offering the choice to open or save the file (screen 2).
Saving the file works fine but if I select "Open" the pop-up close, then the page becomes blank. And my document does not open :(.
This problem does not occur when opening files with a different file extension.
With the same browser, if I open an excel file not stored in Sharepoint (i-e in another website), I can open the file successfully. Despite my attempt multiple searches on the net I hope to find my solution with you.
The problem may have started with the installation of Office 2013 on the computer, but I'm not sure.
Screen 1
Screen 2
The translation of the buttons are "Enregistrer" = "Save" "Enregistrer sous " = "Save as" "Ouvrir" = "Open"
Related
Windows 10, IE 11, Office 365
Desired behavior: From a website that runs reports (Crystal, but inside a custom web application), click on View Report button, Excel opens in a new window and report is displayed in Excel. Works this way on the same system but only when using Firefox.
What IE does:
Click on button to View Report, a new window opens, user is prompted "What do you want to do with xxxxx.xls" and the options Open (The file won't automatically be saved), Save, and Save As. Click on Open, Get a message at the bottom of the browser saying "Do you want to save xxxxxx.xls" with the only options being Save or Save As. Save and Open (third option) is not available. Click Save, then am prompted to Open, Open Folder or View Downloads. Clicking Open opens Excel and the report displays fine. (3 clicks to open in excel). Prior to installation of Office 365, IE 11 performed the same way as Firefox.
To my knowledge, I have the appropriate security settings selected. Any idea why this might have simply stopped working? Since Firefox works, I do not believe the issue is with configuration of Excel.
Any help, thoughts, etc. appreciated.
I hate linking a text picture, but that's what I found unfortunately.
src: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/6fea6fc0-7987-47d7-a002-d73a90b1debb/asking-what-do-you-want-to-do-with-this-file?forum=ieitprocurrentver
I cannot open my excel file, for which I clicked view > checked "hide" when I had the file open previously.
As soon i did that, the file stopped displaying. Every time I click the file, Excel software starts running, so I don't think there is anything wrong with the software itself, just a problem with this specific file. All the other excel files would open when I click them, except this one.
I am using a macboook pro.
Could anyone please help me how to undo the action I did? Thank you.
The view-hide literally hides the file from being seen when opened and I didn't know that....
Can anyone explain me how to display a word and excel in browser.
I had set content type as application/vnd.ms-excel for excel but still not working.
PDF is working fine.
You can save your word and excel files as webpage, just select that option webpage in the save as menu.
A browser is only able to display files from Microsoft Office when the application is installed. For some versions of Microsoft Office viewer applications exist.
But displaying Word and Excel files in modern browsers (especially Internet Explorer) has the drawback that the browser does not display the file in the original window but rather opens a new window.
This in turn is good because current MS Office versions hide some functions and windows when a file is not opened in the application but in the browser. This sometimes makes it impossible to uses formulas in Excel or reopen a file that was opened in readonly mode.
In short: if you want a good experience for your users either accept (if they have it installed) that a second window is opened for the Word and Excel file you present or (if possible) convert it into a html equivalent (which will have a different look) or a pdf (which then automatically is readonly and kind of protected)
I have been using Microsoft Excel 2003 since it first came out and am only just coming across an apparent problem with it. I have a number of .xlt files that are used throughout the company and have never had any issues with them. However, it has just come to light that there is a user who can change the template.
Ordinarily you open the Template file (e.g. Template.xlt) and on opening it find it is called Template1. On pressing the save icon you are taken to the the Save As screen with the default option to save the file as Template1.xls in MyDocuments (Default location).
In this one case though, the user opens the file as Template, and on pressing the save icon overwrites the original .xlt file. I have never seen this before and am bamboozled. Any ideas please?
How exactly does the user open the template?
If a template is opened by double clicking the .xlt (or .xltx/.xltm) file in Windows Explorer, the template generates a new Excel file based on the template.
If an .xlt (or .xltx/.xltm) is right-clicked in Windows Explorer and then the "Open" command is selected in the context menu, then the template file itself will be opened.
If an .xlt (or .xltx/.xltm) template file is opened via Excel's File > Open dialog, the template file itself is opened.
A shortcut that leads to an Excel template behaves in this way:
double-click - creates a new file based on the template.
right-click > New - creates a new file based on the template.
right-click > Open - opens the template itself.
Edit: if the behaviour of double clicking a template file (or a link to a template) occurs only for one user, you may want to unregister and re-register Excel 2003.
Quoting from this question at the Microsoft Answers forum:
> Start>Run>excel /unregserver
> - note the space between excel and /unregserver then
> Start>Run>excel /regserver
> - again note the space between excel and /regserver
I know it's not the best form to answer your own questions, but hopefully someone else will be able to benefit from the solution that I have found.
In order to solve this, download and install a program named FileTypesMan.
Run the program and find the .xlt extension. In an ordinary working system this will have at least New and Open as options with New set to default. In this case there was only Open as an option. Create an option for New and set this to default.....Presto, sorted.
In my web application there is a possibility to download an Excel file that gets generated on the fly. That file has a pivot table.
Now when I download it with chrome, it only gives me the "save as" option.
Firefox does give me the "open with ..." option. I choose "open with Excel" and it works perfectly!
With IE8 there is an "open" option too. When I click "open" it just simply gives an error (see: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie8-windows_other/internet-explorer-and-excel-pivot-tables-trouble/dba6292f-3e67-41f0-937d-d92ddc339df7)
It has something to do with IE changing the name of the tempfile to originalfilename[1].
I solved it by putting the file in a zip. That way I can choose "open zip" which will list the xml file and by double clicking it, the file will open perfectly without having the excel file saved to your desktop (or downloads folder) :)