Opening Excel Link from Outlook 2000

[krinpit]

Hi All,

Using Outlook 2000 (Office 2000 Professional).
I Receive an email with a hyperlink to an Excel file (Somewhere On the
LAN)
I Click on link
An existing Excel Session is disturbed with a message advising user to
open as read only (Not a "file locked" messagebox).
Excel file procedes to be opened in Internet Explorer
Existing Excel session has all it's windows resized

So 2 problems which could probably be solved with 1 solution
1. How to stop excel-linked files being opened in IE
2. How to stop existing excel sessions being disrupted


Many Thanks,
-John

 

[Robert Crayk MVP]

For 1 see if this helps http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;EN-US;q162059