How To: Make "Export to Excel" always open excel in a separate Window

Ok, now some of our PCs when Exporting a file from IE6 to Excel it is saying that it could not find the temp .xls file in the ...\temporary internet files\Content.IE5 folder and to check the spelling blah blah blah. I have looked at lots of threads with people having the same problem and as far as I can tell nobody seems to really have an answer.

I have three riduculous workarounds which my users just love to hear me suggest, I have found the following:

1) Tell users to previously open Excel on the client desktop and then Export the file to Excel in IE and the error will be avoided.

2) Save the file to the local hard drive then open it up with Excel.

3) dump Internet Explorer and use Firefox instead

To me, this problem seems like a intermittent timing issue where Excel is sometimes taking too long to open or the temp .xls file is not ready to open yet to to an issue in IE. I have made sure that my problem PCs are fully updated with Microsoft patches but that did not make any difference.

Surely, someone has a better solution to this problem. Please let me know if anyone has any fresh ideas.

Thanks,

Kim Ahne

Hello krahne,

Internet Explorer has been fraught with problems since it was created. Since I use FireFox, I strongly support option 3.

Sincerely,
Leith Ross

I wish option #3 was available, but I don't think that one will fly for this company.

It is very disturbing to see over 15 different post in many different forums with this same issue and ever single one ended up not having an answer. It appears the only solution is to reload the OS. That is not an option for me. I don't have an account with Microsoft and my company will not pony up and allow me to create a case with them as well.