I have created forms as Excel templates and posted them to the company intranet. When I open them in Firefox, I get a copy - not the original template - which is just the behavior I want.

However, when I open the template file across the intranet with Internet Explorer, I get the original template itself - definitely not the right behavior. Then when I browse to another page, IE offers to save changes back to the original template file. DEFINITELY not the behavior I want.

This happens whether I set file types to open the Excel files separately in Excel or within a browser window.

Is there any way to control the behavior of an Excel template link in IE so that a copy - and not the original file - opens?