Excel Attachment won't open from Outlook

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hopee55 - 05 Mar 2008 15:45 GMT

We have a user at work who cannot open an Excel file by double clicking in
Outlook. If he saves the file to his hard drive, he can open it in Excel.
He is using my old computer and I never had a problem. When he double clicks
file in Outlook, he gets the message "Open or Save", he selects open, he then
gets a message saying that "Application Not Found". File does have ".xls"
extension.

Outlook 2003
Excel 2003
Office 2003 Professinoal

Appreciate any help.
Thank you

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Brian Tillman - 05 Mar 2008 23:18 GMT

> We have a user at work who cannot open an Excel file by double
> clicking in Outlook. If he saves the file to his hard drive, he can
> open it in Excel. He is using my old computer and I never had a
> problem. When he double clicks file in Outlook, he gets the message
> "Open or Save", he selects open, he then gets a message saying that
> "Application Not Found". File does have ".xls" extension.

Try emptying the Outlook Secure Temp folder.
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/securetemp.htm

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hopee55 - 06 Mar 2008 03:00 GMT

Turns out, he somehow lost his file association. Associated ".xls" with
Escel & now all is fine.

Thank you for your help

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Hope

> > We have a user at work who cannot open an Excel file by double
> > clicking in Outlook. If he saves the file to his hard drive, he can
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> Try emptying the Outlook Secure Temp folder.
> http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/securetemp.htm

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