"kissinger" <kissinger@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:593AA570-7EAA-4B7C-980D-7D09E2F6A121@microsoft.com...
>I installed IE8 and after that succeeded I went to my company site and tried
> to edit a table in datasheet view I get this error:

> "The Standard View of your list is being displayed because your browser does
> not support running ActiveX controls."

> I checked als setting of my browser and they do allow activex.


The usual explanation is that it is a bogus message caused by faulty
assumptions made when your User-Agent string is parsed by the site.


>
> I restored IE7 and now this is also not working with activeX controls on my
> sharepoint pages!
> Again installing IE8 didn't help.

> Any suggestions?


Check your User-Agent string for corruption or replace it with one
that the site likes better.


> I desperatly need to work with the datasheet views.
>
>