Problem opening excel documents

[Dwayne]

We have a standalone workstation with Excel on it.

When a user double clicks on a spreadsheet to open it, Excel opens up, but
then the spreadsheet will not open. The message that comes up is something
to the effect of "path cannot be found".

If the user open Excel first and then using Excel's File-Open dialog box,
the file can be opened.

Anyone have any idea how to fix this issue.

Thanks in advance.
Dwayne

 

[Ragdyer]

Try this:

<Tools> <Options> <General> tab,
And *UNCHECK*
"Ignore Other Applications".

 

[Nick Hodge]

Dwayne

Try Tools>Options...>General and uncheck 'Ignore other applications'

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
www.nickhodge.co.uk
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Dave Peterson]

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.

 

[parfum]

I also encounter this problem,I reinstalled the office,but can not open
files directly still.How should I do?

 

[Dave Peterson]

Did you try any of the suggestions?

I also encounter this problem,I reinstalled the office,but can not open
files directly still.How should I do?

 

[parfum]

of course try,but no use.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Maybe you did something wrong. I'd try them a second time.

 

[Dwayne]

Thanks very much for your help, unchecking "ignore other applications"
fixed the problem.

Dwayne