Desk top short cuts not opening excel files

[Guest]

I have a short cut to an excel file on my desktop. When I click on it, excel
opens, but the specified file does not open. The only way to open a file is
to open excel first then go to File then open then navigate to the file.
This wastes a lot of time. I need my short cuts to work.

 

[Zack Barresse]

Hi,

Have you tried right clicking on your shortcuts, going to Properties and
checking the Target path? Does it match exactly with your workbook path??

 

[Ron de Bruin]

Hi

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

If this doesn't work try to re-register Excel

Close Excel first and
On the Windows Taskbar

1 ) Start>Run "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)>OK.
2) Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.
See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.
In that case Start>Run "C:\yourpath\excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.

 

[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.