excel 2003 cannot find file

[Guest]

When I double click a filename in my documents excel opens with a message
saying it can't find the file. If I open excel first and then go file/open
and browse to the file, it opens no problem. I have re-installed Excell and
it still won't work.

 

[squenson via OfficeKB.com]

It may be a problem with the file association. Does your file name contains a
space or other non-letter or non-digit characters? If this is the case, open
My Computer, Menu Tools > Folder Options > tab File Types. Find xls extension,
then click the button Advanced, select Open then click on Edit. You shoud see
[open("%1")] in the lower part of the window where DDE is enabled.

Stephane Quenson.

 

[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.

 

[Guest]

Thank you, I have checked what you say, and "Use DDE" box is checked and
[open("%1")] is in the DDE message section of this window, but the xls files
still do not open. Excel opens but no file appears, even though I am trying
to open files with no spaces or special characters in the filename.
--
sevans

It may be a problem with the file association. Does your file name contains a
space or other non-letter or non-digit characters? If this is the case, open
My Computer, Menu Tools > Folder Options > tab File Types. Find xls extension,
then click the button Advanced, select Open then click on Edit. You shoud see
[open("%1")] in the lower part of the window where DDE is enabled.

Stephane Quenson.

When I double click a filename in my documents excel opens with a message
saying it can't find the file. If I open excel first and then go file/open
and browse to the file, it opens no problem. I have re-installed Excell and
it still won't work.

 

[Guest]

OK... I unticked the ignore other applications box and now this is REALLY
wierd. I get 4 error msgs saying windows can't find the file, which is the
path of the filename I am trying to open. e.g Can't find My.xls, then can't
find Documents.xls, etc. If I click ok on all of the error msgs it opens the
file!
When I try start| run| excel/unregsrevr and regserver it says windows can't
find the files. This is all way over my head. I am just glad you guys are out
there and know what is going on!

 

[Dave Peterson]

My first guess is that you didn't type in the command correctly.

There's a space between excel and /unregserver

And watch your typing. Spelling mistakes count against you!

There's

 

[Guest]

That worked, thank you SO much. It had been driving me crazy for MONTHS.

 

[John Bower]

I tried all of those things and it still says it can't find the files. Does
the /unregserver and /regserver work the same in Vista? I did as you
suggested and got no errors, but all that seemed to happen was Excel started
each time.
Please help Dave!

 

[Dave Peterson]

It should work in Vista (an Operating system--not an application).

Did you try the ignore other applications suggestion?

Do you have more than one version of excel installed? Are you sure you did the
/regserver and /unregserver stuff to the correct version?

What version of excel are you running?

(That's right, I don't have another guess!)

I tried all of those things and it still says it can't find the files. Does
the /unregserver and /regserver work the same in Vista? I did as you
suggested and got no errors, but all that seemed to happen was Excel started
each time.
Please help Dave!