Now....the rest of the story. Kids were in Excel doing who knows
what...NOW, the only way I can open an excel spreadsheet is if it is in
the excel history. All shortcuts as well as WE will open excell....BUT,
no file opes, blank screen. To open at that point you have to click
file and then select from history at the bottom. HELP!! Thanks

Hootywho


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If you try to open the file (and see that blank stuff), then do file|Print
preview, do you see your data?

If yes, try
Window|arrange|tiled
(and resize the way you like)

If no, then....

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.

Hootywho wrote:
>
> Now....the rest of the story. Kids were in Excel doing who knows
> what...NOW, the only way I can open an excel spreadsheet is if it is in
> the excel history. All shortcuts as well as WE will open excell....BUT,
> no file opes, blank screen. To open at that point you have to click
> file and then select from history at the bottom. HELP!! Thanks
>
> Hootywho
>
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one other thing could be that the sheets are very hidden. i so you won't
be able to see them even if you choose for Format=>Sheet=>Unhide

the only way to unhide very hidden sheets are with macro. use something
like:

for each w in workbooks
w.visible = xlsheetvisible
next w

hope this helps.
cheers.


Dave Peterson wrote:
> If you try to open the file (and see that blank stuff), then do file|Print
> preview, do you see your data?
>
> If yes, try
> Window|arrange|tiled
> (and resize the way you like)
>
> If no, then....
>
> 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.
>
> Hootywho wrote:
>
>>Now....the rest of the story. Kids were in Excel doing who knows
>>what...NOW, the only way I can open an excel spreadsheet is if it is in
>>the excel history. All shortcuts as well as WE will open excell....BUT,
>>no file opes, blank screen. To open at that point you have to click
>>file and then select from history at the bottom. HELP!! Thanks
>>
>>Hootywho
>>
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>
>

Dave Peterson wrote:
>
> If you try to open the file (and see that blank stuff), then do file|Print
> preview, do you see your data?
>
> If yes, try
> Window|arrange|tiled
> (and resize the way you like)
>
> If no, then....
>
> 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)
>
>

This worked.

Thanks