We have an Office COM addin. When users don't have excel.exe running and open an Excel file from IE our addin does not load. My understanding is that IE is launching Excel as a server (aka ebedded) and that this behavior is by design.

Is there a way to change this? Our users often open Excel files from IE and they want the functionality our addin supplies available.

I have some vague memory of there being a command line parameter you can add to IE but have not been able to find anything on this.

Thank you in advance for your insight!

cbeck