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Re: Launching Excel from Netscape



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Thanks Dale, everything worked great.

Ed

Dale Wingo wrote:
> 
> Ed,
> 
> I don't know if this answers your ? or not but:
> 
> "Netscape 4.0 Users: Unfortunately, Netscape 4.0 no longer recognizes
> the download format as one that should be saved to disk by default. A
> workaround to this problem is available. Select ``Preferences'' in the
> ``Edit'' menu then choose ``Applications'' under ``Navigator''. Now
> scroll through the list to find ``Microsoft Excel Comma Separated
> Values File''. Click the ``Edit'' button and change the ``MIME Type''
> field (which should be blank) to read application/octet-stream. These
> instructions apply to the Windows version of Netscape; other versions
> may vary slightly."
> 
> I found it at: http://biz.yahoo.com/f/q.html
> 
> Dale
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ed Middleton
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 2:01 PM
> > To: metastock info request
> > Subject: Launching Excel from Netscape
> >
> >
> > To all,
> >
> > I have been using Internet Explorer to download the following
> > information from Yahoo:
> >
> > http://quote.yahoo.com/d/ALL.csv?s=^xcd+^dji+^spx+CHV+GM+IP+
> EK+AOL+DELL+WLA+GPS+T+BBY+JBHT+LADF+PTX+GTW+LOW+EGG+GGUY+&f=sl1d&e=.cs
> v
> >
> > Using IE it launches an Excel window inside of IE from
> > which I can copy
> > and paste into my Excel spreadsheet in Excel.
> >
> > Is there anyway to do this in Netscape.  I have version
> > 4.05.  When I
> > click on the bookmark above it asks me to save it.  Then I
> > have to open
> > the file in Excel and cut and paste into my spreadsheet.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be welcome.
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> >
> > Ed Middleton
> >