Excel attachments won't open w/o program being open

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I'm running Excel 2003 SP3 and when I open an Excel attachment via my
Outlook it pops up an error message saying "The system cannot find the
file specified". If I save the document to my desktop then double
click on the document it opens up Excel but not the document. Once
Excel is opened up I can click on open select the document and it
opens up fine. I have never had a problem opening up Excel files
before it just started happening. If anyone has any idea's please let
me know.

Thanks
 
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 some of the windows registry to
excel's factory defaults.

Maybe it'll help with the email attachment, too.
 
Tried "Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it) "
and that took care of it. Now I can open spreadsheets out of my email
and off of my desktop. Thanks Dave.
 
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