How do I open an existing excel 2003 document

[Guest]

I believe a setting/s has been changed in my computer. I used to be able to
open an existing/saved excel document and all the information would be there.
Now I open an existing document and all I get is a blank excel spreadsheet.
How do I revert to the old settings so that when I open a saved document, the
spreadsheet opens with all the previously saved information?

 

[Dave Peterson]

You're opening the workbook via double clicking in windows explorer?

But if you use File|open within excel everything is ok??

Sometimes one of these works:

Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

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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.

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If that's not it, you may want to give more info.

 

[Guest]

I just read a similar post and followed Ron de Bruin's suggestion to click on:

Tools>Options>General uncheck "Ignore other Applications"
Exit Excel and try again

It worked like a charm. Thanks for your help.

Cathy