cant open SAVED excel spread sheets

[Guest]

I have spreadsheets and graphs in Excel.
They STOPPED opening for me....when I click on the file. So I have to open
by going to Start>Programs>ucrosoft office > Excel.

After the program is running I can open one of the saved files.

ALSO, if I click on the saved file and ask to OPEN WITH EXCEL AND ALWAYS
OPEN THIS TYPE OF FILE (check-box)....an error message comes up and cannot
find that file or it is MISPELLED.

I've used Excel for a long time and all of a sudden I have to RUN the
program before opening the files that I wrote. WHY DOESN'T THE SHORTCUT
WORK?
help help help

 

[Guest]

Tools > Options > General

Make sure the Ignore other applications checkbox is cleared.

 

[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.