Within these World Wide Web pages, many data tables are available in Excel formats
and can be loaded directly into a spreadsheet program. To launch a spreadsheet program
when you select a table, you must first configure your browser to recognize spreadsheet
documents. This is done through the "Helper Applications" feature of most
browsers. In many cases, this feature is incorporated into the Options...
menu under Preferences....

More detailed information is available for configuring the following browsers.