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MS Office Forum / Excel / New Users / January 2008excel not opening up files
Excel - won't open with double click, must open Excel then browse for document? as well when i recive excel documents in outlook i try to double click on them but i get the same result excel opens but i just get a blank screen no work sheet but the menu is up on the screen this is excel 2002 sp3 .. this just starting happening to one user about 3 days ago and now i have 2 more users that have the same issue . the excel files are assioated with excel . no issues there . when i double click them no issues .. or if they come in via e-mail .. if i forward the e-mail to myself i can open the files .but 3 users now cannot open via e-mail and from there my documents folders if you need more info please ask Unselect "Ignore other applications" under Tools, Options, General.  SignatureJim | Excel - won't open with double click, must open Excel then browse for | document? [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] | | if you need more info please ask Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on the file in windows explorer: Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it) --- or --- 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. Maybe one of these will work for you. > Excel - won't open with double click, must open Excel then browse for > document? [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > if you need more info please ask SignatureDave Peterson >>The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's factory defaults. Just the file associations I think. Not options, etc. SignatureJim | Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on | the file in windows explorer: [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] | > | > if you need more info please ask Thanks for the addendum. > >>The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's > factory defaults. [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > | > | Dave Peterson SignatureDave Peterson Ryan, Jim, Dave or whomever else that can help I'm having the exact same problem thar Ryan described in his post I've tried both of the proposed solutions but neither worked for me. Ryan, did it work for you? does anyone have any more suggesion? kes > Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on > the file in windows explorer: [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > > > if you need more info please ask The only suggestion I have is to try it again. (it's easy to screw up, well, for me at least.) > Ryan, Jim, Dave or whomever else that can help > [quoted text clipped - 48 lines] > > > > Dave Peterson SignatureDave Peterson |
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