icons and shortcuts stopped working

[stalaly]

greetings,

I have excel 2002 as part of XP Office and have a problem. When I tr
to open worksheets from the icons on my desktop (or in any folders) th
window opens but is blank. i.e. no spreadsheet. Yet when I open th
app or go through the task pane it comes right up. Why is thi
happening and how can I fix it? I tried to detect and repair and onl
got a DLL error.

please help.

Stev

 

[Guest]

hi,
DLL error = re-install excel

 

[Dave Peterson]

You are sure that the workbooks didn't open? If you look under Window (on the
toolbar), you don't see them listed?

Sometimes one of these works:

Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

--- or ---

Close Excel (both instances) 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'm not sure about the DLL error you got.