EXCEL 2002

[Judith Gauthier]

It seems I am not alone. Reading the past few days of
submissions indicated something nasty is happening to
Excel. One morning it worked and in the afternoon it
didn't. No viruses or worms or other anomolies. Symptoms
include a malfunctioning path through Start (deleting it
and creating a short cut through here corrected this) and
the inability to open .xls files through My Documents or
Outlook Express without oking several file not found
screens. It is treating all paths and file names
separately (as someone else noticed), says it cannot find
them (one at a time), then loads the darn thing anyway.
Wants to find "My.xls" which exists no where in any form.
Annoying but not crippling. I spent 2 hours on the phone
with a techie and while we got the program running again
(that pesky shortcut) it did not solve the problem. He
thought a registry problem may have corrupted the shortcut
but we were unaware that opening from other applications
was time consuming. I attacked my system with Norton Win
Doctor but nothing turned up. Using find and fix for
office causes a lockup and no joy. Kernal 32.dll errors
abound. Maybe an undetectable macro virus? Like someone
else, I have been having problems following upgrades - one
even wiped out my sound drivers - and there was one the
same day my problems began. If anyone sees a solution
yell loud.
JG

 

[peter]

DId you usse Norton AV recently?

Look in KB 329820

 

[Jan Karel Pieterse]

Hi,

This should fix your problem:

Start, Run,
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office\Excel.exe" /Regserver

Quotes mandatory, Note you may have to change the path.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP

 

[Judith Gauthier]

-----Original Message-----
Hi,

This should fix your problem:

Start, Run,
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office\Excel.exe" /Regserver

Quotes mandatory, Note you may have to change the path.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel TA/MVP

.
Tried your suggestion while on line with the techie. He

was baffled when it did not function.

JG

 

[Jan Karel Pieterse]

Hi Judith,

Tried your suggestion while on line with the techie. He
was baffled when it did not function.

Check this then:


1. Open Windows Explorer.
2. Choose from its menu: View, Options. (or View / Folder Options in
Windows 98)
3. Select the File Types tab
4. Scroll to Microsoft Excel Worksheet
5. Click Edit
6. Select the OPEN entry (it should be highlighted (bolded)
7. Click Edit and check that the fields are set as follows:
a) Application used: should be EXCEL.EXE, loaded from the correct
directory
b) Use DDE should be checked
c) The DDE message should be (exactly): [Open("%1")]
d) Application should be: excel
e) DDE Application not running should be empty
f) Topic should be: system
8. Click OK
9. Click Close
10. If you wish to double-click other Excel file types, e.g. template
(xlt) or workspace (xlw), select the appropriate type in the File
Types tab and repeat from step (5)

Hope this fixes it.

Regards,

Jan Karel Pieterse
Excel MVP