Unable to start my Excel files

[Guest]

One of my users have this odd issue with his Excel 2003. He's unable to start
the files directly but instead he must start a blank excel sheet then open
his files from there. Is there a solution to this issue?

Please advise.
Thanks!

Dell 170L P4 800mghz 1gbram
Windows XP Pro SP2
Office 2003 SP2

 

[Guest]

Just to add, did some further investigation on this and it turns out that
only the user's profile in having this difficulty. I've managed to open the
very same files under my own profile with no problems so that file itself is
not corrupted. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Well it seems like we've resolved this issue ourselves.

It just a matter of unchecking an option in Excel and that triggered the
files to start up again by itself. Resolved!

 

[Dave Peterson]

Sometimes one of these works:

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.