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When my users attempt to open Excel documents from the SharePoint 2010 web interface, it opens the document in the WebApp instead of the application. &nbsp;Attempting to open it in the application from the web interface returns an error that Excel is not installed.<br />
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This occurs on my terminal server, which is Windows 2008R2x64
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When my users attempt to open Excel documents from the SharePoint 2010 web interface, it opens the document in the WebApp instead of the application.  Attempting to open it in the application from the web interface returns an error that Excel is not installed.

This occurs on my terminal server, which is Windows 2008R2x64

Excel documents will not open in Excel application from Sharepoint

Microsoft Sharepoint is a software platform and family of software products used for collaboration and web publishing combined. These capabilities include developing web sites, portals, intranets, content management systems, search engines, wikis, blogs, and other tools for business intelligence and collaboration. SharePoint has a Microsoft Office-like interface, and it is closely integrated with the Office suite.