Excel Workbooks do not open from windows explorer

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lstumme - 07 Oct 2003 17:41 GMT

When I try to open a workbook from windows explorer,
Excel opens with the top formating protion, but the sheet
dose not open, and all I see is my windows desktop. If I
open the worksheet in Excel with File and open the
workbooks open fine.

Any ideas on what I should do to fix?

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Dave Peterson - 08 Oct 2003 02:32 GMT

Sometimes one of these works:

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.

An alternative might be to do:
Try Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

> When I try to open a workbook from windows explorer,
> Excel opens with the top formating protion, but the sheet
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> Any ideas on what I should do to fix?

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Guy - 30 Oct 2003 02:44 GMT

Thanks. Your alternative helped me.

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>Sometimes one of these works:
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>> Any ideas on what I should do to fix?

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