Browser support for spreadsheets
To work with interactive spreadsheets in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 and later, you must have the Microsoft Office Web Components installed and an appropriate Office XP license. If you do not have an Office XP license, you can install the components and view them on a Web page, but you cannot interact with them.
Following are the levels of browser support available when you have the Office Web Components installed and an Office XP license.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 and later
You have access to all spreadsheet features that are accessible from a browser.
Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4.01, 4.1x, and 4.2x
You have access to all spreadsheet features that are accessible from a browser, except when the Web page was created or modified and saved in data access page Design view in Microsoft Access, in which case Internet Explorer 5 is required to have full functionality.
In earlier versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and in other browsers, you cannot view interactive spreadsheets. A spreadsheet appears as an outlined box on the Web page.