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Opening an Excel document outside of browser with IIS 6

Opening an Excel document outside of browser with IIS 6

I have links to various Excel documents on an intranet site. I want these documents to open in Excel and not within the browser but i cannot figure out how to accomplish this.

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I figured out a solution that works similarly to IIS5. Instead of using an http:// href link, i used a file:// link to a shortcut (.lnk) file on a network share. This prompts the user to open the file and opens it in Excel if selected.