Excel launches with 2 copies of worksheet

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danielle

I just installed Win2000 and Office 97 on a brand new
computer. Clean install, essentially nothing else on the
computer yet. I have a few Excel files, some that were
created previously and a couple that were created on this
machine with this copy of Excel.

If I double click on an Excel file in Explorer, Excel
launches, opens the file, and then tries to open the file
a second time! Anytime I try to open something in this
way I get an error that says something like "A document
with the name "xyz.xls" is already open. You cannot open
two documents with the same name..."

If I start Excel and open the file from the File|Open menu
it works normally.

I do not have my settings such that I only need a single
mouse click; everything else works normally (a double
click on a TXT file opens one copy of it in Notepad, a
double click on a JPEG opens it in PSP, ...)

What is going on????

In Explorer|Folder Options|File Types the XLS extension
opens with
C:\...\excel.exe %1
and the Use DDE command is checked, with
[open("%1")]
What does all this mean?

TIA
 
Try this

Tools>Options>General uncheck "Ignore other Applications"
Exit Excel and try again

If this doesn't work try to re-register Excel

On the Windows Taskbar
Close Excel
Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.
See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.
In that case Start>Run "C:\yourpath\excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.
 
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