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

Debra Hicks March 2, 2017

Hi,

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

Thanks!

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Debra Hicks March 20, 2017

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 October 15, 2018

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!

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October 15, 2018

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.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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March 2, 2017

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

Debra Hicks March 7, 2017

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

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March 7, 2017

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.

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