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I don't want to use an ActiveX, or OWC (Office Web Components), I just want to open an existing file from the internet explorer application.

I don't want users to download and then open it.

Using an iframe wouldn't be a problem, but my preliminary tests weren't successful

Any ideas? Is it at all possible?

Eh? When you "embed" an XLS in a webpage (i.e., create an iframe targeting the file on the web server) and a chunk of excel shows in the iframe, isn't that an activex control??? – user1228 Oct 3, 2008 at 18:41

This has to do with the local person's browser set up and not really anything you can do on your end. If they click a link with the .xls(x) extension, the browser determines if it wants to open it itself or in a new window.

Here 2 microsoft pages on how to change these settings:

http://support.microsoft.com/.../how-to-configure-internet-explorer-to-open-office-documents-in-the-app

http://support.microsoft.com/.../embed-your-excel-workbook-on-your-web-page-or-blog-from-sharepoint-or-onedrive-for-business

Not really. I've tried to do the same before and had the same problem. Since people can change these settings there is no way to make it consistant. The best you can do is to link it the normal way, but also have a link to instructions to show it embedded to your users if they want to see it. – AaronS Oct 3, 2008 at 20:05

You should try using the Excel Web App Embed feature that lets you embed tables and charts from Excel directly on your Web Page. You can even let users interact with the spreadsheet so that they can sort and filter data and use your spreadsheets formulas to calculate make their own calculations all without altering the source.

The Excel Web App and storage is all free from Microsoft. Any data you embed on your Web page can be viewed by all the major destkop and mobile browsers and when you update your spreadsheet the data on your web pages is automatically updated as well.

I did a search on this today, found this thread, found other solutions. Everything you want to know is here. Excellent solution! office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps-help/… – TonyG Mar 27, 2012 at 20:49 this is not work man !! add https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/embed.aspx?src= before your link – AdDev Oct 25, 2020 at 5:16

Select the area of the spreadsheet you wish to display.

Copy this area into MS Paint.

Select the area in Paint and use the Edit/Copy to/ function to save this as a bitmap.

Now load the bitmap as you would any other pic.

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