Excel problem in internet explorer

[smanuel]

Hi,

When I open an excel file in internet explorer (file opened through a link from a website) I cannot get access to the Edit, Insert, View, Format or Tools menus. I can see the menus but when I click on them, nothing happens. I restored all defaults in Internet Explorer and it still didn't work.
If I open an XLS file directly with Internet Explorer, the same thing occurs but if I open the same file with Excel, it works fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help

 

[NateO]

Welcome to the board.

Not sure, but why not open an XLS file with an App that was intended to work with Excel Spreadsheets; that being Excel?

See the following, but I'm not sure if this is your animal:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884932

 

[smanuel]

Thanks for replying but it's not the exact issue in the link.

We use Internet xplorer for this due to some formatting issues ease of use for our clients