Please help finding my .xls files that have gone missing

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GSalisbury - 01 May 2008 01:53 GMT

Office97 - Excel97 - XP SP2

I did something to make my .xls files disappear.
They're all there.
I can see them with Explorer.
I can send them to work and they're okay there.
When I [now] try to open any .xls file I get "Windows cannot find
'C;\<path>\x.xls'. Make sure you typed etc...".
Last night all was well - then I must have done something to corrupt Excel
from starting up.
I had been working full-screen then not full-screen.
I had been toggling Options to for different effects.
One was "Ignore other apps..." so that I could have side-by-side/alt-tab
etc.
Did I blow away some "iny" file of some such?
Any ideas on what to look for?
Thanks.
Geo. Salisbury
Long Valley, NJ

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Gord Dibben - 01 May 2008 03:18 GMT

Disable "ignore other applications" by unchecking to start with.

If that brings no joy, reregister Excel.

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

1) Start>Run "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)>OK.
2) Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.

See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.

In that case Start>Run "C:\yourpath\excel.exe" /regserver(quotes required)>OK.

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

>Office97 - Excel97 - XP SP2
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>Geo. Salisbury
>Long Valley, NJ

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GSalisbury - 01 May 2008 03:51 GMT

Thank you!
I just came back in from walking away to piss and moan and was going to see
if just running Excel by itself would let me get to Options to do that - it
did and I did.
Phew!
I can now get to my .xls files!
I'm keeping your other suggestions as well in my excel bucket.
Again, thanks for the handholding.
Geo.

> Disable "ignore other applications" by unchecking to start with.
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Alan - 01 May 2008 07:35 GMT

> Thank you!
> I just came back in from walking away to piss and moan and was going to see
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Hi,

Does your spreadsheet works fine? I once had similar problems, but
my .xls file was damaged after I could see them. I finally used a tool
called Advanced Excel Repair to recover the file. It worked fine for
me. Its website is http://www.datanumen.com/aer/ Hope this helps.

Alan

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GSalisbury - 01 May 2008 13:42 GMT

On May 1, 10:51 am, "GSalisbury" <salsburyg at comcast dot net> wrote:

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Hi,

Does your spreadsheet works fine? I once had similar problems, but
my .xls file was damaged after I could see them. I finally used a tool
called Advanced Excel Repair to recover the file. It worked fine for
me. Its website is http://www.datanumen.com/aer/ Hope this helps.

Alan

Yes everything is okay.
I was never concerned that the files themselves were compromised.
I was pretty sure it was some "control setting" that was preventing Excel
from completing its startup.
Gord's Options tip took care of it.
Thx.
G.

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