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This is because Microsoft IE automatically detects the file as an Excel mime type. Microsoft has tightly integrated IE and Office products. There's no way around it.
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This is because Microsoft IE automatically detects the file as an Excel mime type. Microsoft has tightly integrated IE and Office products. There's no way around it.

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If a user who tries to download the file has installed Microsoft Excel then it will load Excel. If the user has not installed Excel, it will start the download normally.
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If a user who tries to download the file has installed Microsoft Excel then it will load Excel. If the user has not installed Excel, it will start the download normally.

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Can you use ASP? If so you can solve this server-side. If so, let me know.<br />
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Otherwise I'd probably .zip the file to force someone to download it.
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Can you use ASP? If so you can solve this server-side. If so, let me know.

Otherwise I'd probably .zip the file to force someone to download it.

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whammy<br />
I can use ASP, how I do it?
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Thanks the example works!!<br />

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I want to download a Excel file, but the browser open the file and not show the dialog &quot;SaveAs...&quot;<br />
I trying with the execCommand and IFRAMES but not work with &quot;xls&quot; files! <br />
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&lt;iframe id=&quot;SaveFrame&quot; SRC=&quot;MyFile.xls&quot; style=&quot;display:show&quot;&gt;&lt;/ifr<wbr />ame&gt;<br />
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&lt;html&gt;<br />
&lt;INPUT TYPE=&quot;button&quot; STYLE=&quot;width: 9em&quot; VALUE=&quot;HTML Mode&quot; ONCLICK=&quot;SaveFrame.documen<wbr />t.('SaveAs<wbr />',false,'w<wbr />w.xls')&quot;&gt;<br />
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&lt;/html&gt;<br />

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I want to download a Excel file, but the browser open the file and not show the dialog "SaveAs..."
I trying with the execCommand and IFRAMES but not work with "xls" files! 
     
     

<iframe id="SaveFrame" SRC="MyFile.xls" style="display:show"></iframe>

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<INPUT TYPE="button" STYLE="width: 9em" VALUE="HTML Mode" ONCLICK="SaveFrame.document.('SaveAs',false,'ww.xls')">

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