Microsoft Office Web Components is a set of ActiveX controls installed with Microsoft Office XP. With Office Web Components installed on your computer, you can interactively use a spreadsheet, a PivotTable list, and a chart on a Web page in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or later. If you want to use the components on a data access page in Microsoft Access, you should have Internet Explorer 5 or later.
If Office Web Components is not installed on your computer but you have an Office XP site license that permits intranet distribution, you can configure the components so that users will be prompted to download Office Web Components from your corporate intranet. This allows users at your site to use a data access page without having Office XP software installed on their computers.
For information about how to configure Office Web Components, see the Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit.