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hammo1j
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When excel is running in the plug in and I launch ordinary excel or vice versa I sometimes experience unpredictable behaviour such as the screen freezing.

Sometimes this is because a user needs to answer a prompt and if you alt-tab you eventually get to it.

Does anybody have a policy that cures this (other than advising users to use one at a time)?

Does setting excel with /e (existing) or /n (new window launch) resolve any of this.

Does applying later servicepacks of excel (we are on 2003) fix things?

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hammo1j
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Something that may be of use.

If you kill excel via task manager you kill the plug ins too. So the plug in is not a separate program but uses excel.


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Francis Mariani
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Curious to understand what the Excel Pug In is...


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hammo1j
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The 'plug in' is just excel running in the browser.

Within IE a plug in application is defined to be triggered for certain mime types in the HTML message the browser receives.

Similarly PDF is a plug in.


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hammo1j,
We have experieced some issues when using Excel Templates. When the Excel template file is opened from WebFOCUS and the users Excel 2003 is not at the Service Pack 3 level, there were errors and strange behavior.

We have also instructed our users to not use the Excel browser plug-in but use 'real' Excel. This can be accomplished in Windows Explorer, select Tools, Folder Opetions, File Types. FInd XLS click the Advanced button and de-select "Browse in Same window". This forces Excel to open.

Hope this helps.


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We have also found that Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 have different behaviors under Vista. More salt into the wound!


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hammo1j
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Thanks Nick

Using excel 2003 SP3 cures a host of problems. I would suggest IBI officially lists this as a requirement as the behaviour generally gets blamed on webfocus rather than excel.

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John


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