Cannot open Excel files by doubleclicking on file

[Angus]

Hello

This may really be a Windows problem rather than an Excel problem. But on a
users PC, if they double click on an Excel file in Explorer, Excel opens but
with no spreadsheet. It does not open with the selected spreadsheet, or a
blank spreadsheet but just the program with no open file.

I had a look at file associations and maybe that is the issue. But
everything seems ok there.

Anyone got any ideas on how to resolve this?

Angus

 

[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.

Maybe one of these will work for you.