Excel doesn't open the file

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Steve L

When I click on an excel file (or even a word doc), excel opens to a gray
page. I then have to search for and open the file from the file list. The
file associations are set correctly. This has just started recently. It used
to open directly to the file I clicked on. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks in advance.

Steve
 
First, check to make sure the workbook isn't actually open:

Window|Arrange|Tiled

If it's not visible, then 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.
 
Thanks Dave for your quick response. I tried both ideas, but neither helped.
However, when I did the regserver and unregserver from run box, it said it
couldn't find regserver.xls or unregserver.xls. I also searched thru 'find'
and they're not on my PC anywhere. Can you e-mail those 2 files or post them
or have any other ideas what can cause this? Thanks.

Steve
 
Watch your typing:

excel /unregserver
and
excel /regserver

You forgot the slash.
 
They're not files - they are command line switches. Be sure to type the
slash before them: excel /unregserver
 
Thanks! It worked. I even did the same for winword /regserver and the word
docs open properly now also. I was mistakenly omitting the slash. Thanks
Dave and Mike.

Steve
 
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