How do I get a link to an Excel spreadsheet to open in Excel?

[Debra Hicks]

Hi,

How do I get a link to an Excel spreadsheet to open in Excel?

Thanks!

[Debra Hicks]

I found that if you right-click on the link and select Open in a new tab it opens in Excel.  So now I have added the text: Right-click on the link above to open in Excel.

[Lisa Schaffer]

Hi,

I am using Confluence 6.8.2 - does anyone know if this was fixed in any recent version, or do we still need to do a workaround as Debra suggests?

It works fine in Confluence 6.0.6.

Thanks!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There is no "fix"in Confluence, as it's nothing to do with Confluence.  As Debra has done, you have to set your browser to open files with excel.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Make sure your browser understands it should open excel files in excel.

[Debra Hicks]

Very funny, thanks. Now I need to make sure it works for all of the other browsers and 300 users.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Funny how?  I'm just pointing out that the choice of program that your machine makes to open a specific file type depends on what you've told it to do.