excel file name is too long

[Guest]

I am wondering if there is a bug in excel 2000 that won't allow for long file names. It seems that a file name over 51 causes an error when trying to open a file, yet the same file name in word works fine. Has anyone noticed this before?

Thanks,

Dennis

 

[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.

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I bet it was spaces in the path\filename that caused the problems--not the
length.