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So I have a local sever website that we have a status board at my command center (military). We are displaying an excel spreadsheet on this website as a .mht

I want to create a button to edit this (because the people I work with cannot figure out how to right click open with excel)

Basically what I would love to see is a button called edit that would launch excel and open the .mht file in excel.

Is this possible?

Brandon
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As .mht is only supported by Internet Explorer I guess your users are using Internet Explorer.

For security reasons it is not easily possible to run code on local computer pushed to the client from webserver - without the user seeing questions like where do you want to save the file, do you trust the file etc etc.

I would search for answer in following directions:

1 Internet Explorer can run nearly any code with the HTML user interface through the .hta file format - may be outdated today

2 Editing spreadsheet documents directly from the browser is nicely supported if you host the Excel files on Google Docs

3 Similar easy to use online spreadsheet editing should be possible through Microsoft's services OneDrive and Office Online

xmojmr
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