Make Excel hyperlinks use Netscape

My default browser is Netscape, but when I click on a URL in an Excel
worksheet cell, it automatically uses MS Internet Explorer. How can I change
this so it uses my default browser?

Guessing here
In a file browser (Explore), in Tools, Folder Options, FileTypes is a type of URL
Check if this is set to open IE, and if so try pointing it to your Netscape browser.

ps, remember what it was before you changed it so that you can restore it if required.

..HTM and .HTML were both already set to Netscape. I changed .SHTML to point
to Netscape instead of MSIE. Unfortunately this didn't change Excel's
behavior.

Could this be built in, as a prejudice Microsoft has for users of Excel to
use MSIE and not competing products?

Ed

"Bryan Hessey" wrote:

>
> Guessing here
> In a file browser (Explore), in Tools, Folder Options, FileTypes is a
> type of URL
> Check if this is set to open IE, and if so try pointing it to your
> Netscape browser.
>
> ps, remember what it was before you changed it so that you can restore
> it if required.
>
>
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and did you also have a URL filetype ?

I think it's built in (I've never found a way to change this behavior).

But if you click a link in NS Messenger, it'll start up NS Communicator. So it
looks like it's a common "feature".

Ed Isenberg wrote:
>
> .HTM and .HTML were both already set to Netscape. I changed .SHTML to point
> to Netscape instead of MSIE. Unfortunately this didn't change Excel's
> behavior.
>
> Could this be built in, as a prejudice Microsoft has for users of Excel to
> use MSIE and not competing products?
>
> Ed
>
> "Bryan Hessey" wrote:
>
> >
> > Guessing here
> > In a file browser (Explore), in Tools, Folder Options, FileTypes is a
> > type of URL
> > Check if this is set to open IE, and if so try pointing it to your
> > Netscape browser.
> >
> > ps, remember what it was before you changed it so that you can restore
> > it if required.
> >
> >
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There were several, but all of them were assigned to "NONE". Should I have
copied the OPEN instructions from the HTM file type to all of the URL types?
As much as I want a solution to this pain--in-the-butt problem, I am
reluctant to mess too much with stuff I don't thoroughly understand.

Ed

"Bryan Hessey" wrote:

>
> and did you also have a URL filetype ?
>
>
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Hi Dave.

Ed, this smells 'built-in' as Dave says, but Windows operates through the registry via links (the text 'iexplore.exe is not held within the Excel program), it was just a guess/hope that the link was via the filetype that seems to control other similar linkage.

And I've never been able to change the program that opened URLs. I figured it
was hard-wired within excel.

If you (or anyone else) figures out a way, please post!

Bryan Hessey wrote:
>
> Hi Dave.
>
> Ed, this smells 'built-in' as Dave says, but Windows operates through
> the registry via links (the text 'iexplore.exe is not held within the
> Excel program), it was just a guess/hope that the link was via the
> filetype that seems to control other similar linkage.
>
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Dave and Ed,

In regard to Excel opening Netscape, it is possible, . . but you wouldn't want to do it.

I downloaded Netscape and Firefox to test and, after removing all references to IExplore in the FileTypes I then attacked the registry, the last key before getting some success was:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{0002DF01-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\LocalServer32]
@="\"C:\\Program Files\\Netscape\\Netscape Browser\\Netscape.exe\""

but be warned, . . . I do NOT reccommend adjusting the registry, I will fix mine again tomorrow.
... ... Both Excel and MS Word now use Netscape for the URL Links.

Perhaps there is a better way.

My son also uses XP and uses Firefox for his browsing, which he has used for some months.
His system uses Firefox to open both URL Links (from Excel and MS Word). The setting he used is found in SET PROGRAM ACCESS AND DEFAULTS, a selection in Add Remove Programs, but this 'setting' option takes a little kicking to convince, like all modern Windows *stuff* it allows you to make those changes it feels you should make and restores half of them later.

I think I believe you <bg>. I'll stay away from that registry tweak.

Bryan Hessey wrote:
>
> Dave and Ed,
>
> In regard to Excel opening Netscape, it is possible, . . but you
> wouldn't want to do it.
>
> I downloaded Netscape and Firefox to test and, after removing all
> references to IExplore in the FileTypes I then attacked the registry,
> the last key before getting some success was:
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{0002DF01-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\LocalServer32]
> @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Netscape\\Netscape Browser\\Netscape.exe\""
>
> but be warned, . . . I do NOT reccommend adjusting the registry, I will
> fix mine again tomorrow.
> .. ... Both Excel and MS Word now use Netscape for the URL
> Links.
>
> Perhaps there is a better way.
>
> My son also uses XP and uses Firefox for his browsing, which he has
> used for some months.
> His system uses Firefox to open both URL Links (from Excel and MS
> Word). The setting he used is found in SET PROGRAM ACCESS AND DEFAULTS,
> a selection in Add Remove Programs, but this 'setting' option takes a
> little kicking to convince, like all modern Windows *stuff* it allows
> you to make those changes it feels you should make and restores half of
> them later.
>
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> Bryan Hessey
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