Sorry, missed this one earlier. The answer is...

Subject: Sorry, missed this one earlier. The answer is...
Name: SickOfItAll
Date: 8/15/2002 10:26:53 AM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 66.241.70.2
In Reply to: Off Topic.....How do I open an excel document from a browser... posted by Celstk855
Message:

You can't without an ActiveX control or similar. Since it's only an IE problem, this works great. One of the developers here wrote his own, it's just a few lines of VB that launch the document via Shell command. You just have to be carefull if their using NT/2K, since commands have to be launched with CMD.

Hope that's enough to get you goin, I'd send you the control if I could, but it's company IP.