Re: Opening XLS files from a user profile.

Ray

Sounds like file associations are lost. No big deal. Nothing corrupt.

First try the standard fix(es)......Tools>Options>General uncheck "ignore
other applications"

OR Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes and note the space before the /
mark).

You may have to enter your full path to excel.exe....in that case surround
with quotes as in..... "C:\mypath\to Excel\somewhere\excel.exe" /regserver

Gord Dibben Excel MVP - XL97 SR2 & XL2002

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 14:13:28 -0700, "Ray Stoyle" <Ray.Stoyle@Echostar.com>
wrote:

>We are using Office 2002, SP2 in a W2K AD environment. A
>user has a laptop with a W2K Pro SP2 machine that he has
>recently acquired. When he tries to open a XLS spreadsheet
>from his profile "Documents and Settings" directory, the
>gets the error message " 'C:\Document.XLS' could not be
>found. Check spelling and verify file location is correct.
>If you are trying to open the file from recent file list
>make sure the file has not be renamed, moved or deleted".
>Clicking "OK" bings up the same error only it now
>starts "C:\And.XLS .... Enough clicks on OK and the file
>does eventually open. The file does exist but it makes nod
>difference if Excel is opened first and the file selected
>ot if you browse to the file and click on it. Same series
>of error messages.
>
>The profile has recently been moved from another machine.
>I believe perhaps the user.dat file is compromised or the
>profile has been corrupted in some way.
>
>Suggestions, please.
>
>Thanks,
>Ray