Excel open file name

[Guest]

When I open a file named 'Myname' in Excel (2000 & 97)
File/Open... the file is normaly opened with the same
name. But when I open this (or any other) .xls file by
double clicking it the file opens with name 'Myname1'.
This is happening after reinstalation of Office 2000
(all upgrades instaled). I reinstaled Office 2000 prof.
because of unknown problem with Excel 2000 (err. message
was 'The system is dangerously low in resources!'- and PC
hung. All the other Office and other appl. worked fine).
System is Win'98SE with 512MB (RAM is checked & OK).
Can anybody help me?

 

[Dave Peterson]

It sounds like the default behavior when you double click on a .xls file is set
to NEW, not OPEN.

Try a test to verify:

Right click on the file when you're on the desktop.

You should get a popup with a bunch of options. I get Open and New right at the
top of the list. Open is bolded which means that Open is the default action
when you double click on the file.

If your default action is NEW, then windows will tell excel to open it like a
template. That's why you'd get the myname1 (with no extension).

If your situation matches, this is what I'd do next (the easiest, I think).

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.

Now you could check by rightclicking again. If it looks good, try double
clicking and see if it really worked!

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Option 2. (A little more work.)

I use windows98, so depending on your version of windows, it might not be quite
the same--but it'll be pretty close.

Close excel
open Windows explorer (flying windows-E is a quick way)
View|Folder Options|File Types
Scroll down to Microsoft Excel Worksheet and select that
Click the Edit button
You'll see a list of Actions in a little box.
Open should be the bold one (here, too!)

If it's not, then click on Open and then click the "make default" button.

(Ok your way out.)


Now try rightclicking and then try double clicking to see if it got fixed.

 

[Guest]

Already the first (easy) solution resolved problem. Thanks