Excel attachments won't open w/o program being open

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bsmith95610 - 15 Apr 2008 17:34 GMT

I'm running Excel 2003 SP3 and when I open an Excel attachment via my
Outlook it pops up an error message saying "The system cannot find the
file specified". If I save the document to my desktop then double
click on the document it opens up Excel but not the document. Once
Excel is opened up I can click on open select the document and it
opens up fine. I have never had a problem opening up Excel files
before it just started happening. If anyone has any idea's please let
me know.

Thanks

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Dave Peterson - 15 Apr 2008 18:11 GMT

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 some of the windows registry to
excel's factory defaults.

Maybe it'll help with the email attachment, too.

> I'm running Excel 2003 SP3 and when I open an Excel attachment via my
> Outlook it pops up an error message saying "The system cannot find the
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>
> Thanks

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bsmith95610 - 16 Apr 2008 01:22 GMT

Tried "Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it) "
and that took care of it. Now I can open spreadsheets out of my email
and off of my desktop. Thanks Dave.

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