Opening excel files - where is the file

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Hi everyone

If I open an excel document from my documents, or other location, excel
opens but then the file does not open.

I can open excel files from excel and using the open command.

but not staright from my documents.

Any ideas?

thanks
 
Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on
the file in windows explorer:

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 a lot dave!

1st one worked!

Dave Peterson said:
Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on
the file in windows explorer:

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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Hey, I am having a similar problem.
If I open a file through explorer, then excel opens up with the default
title bar and everything. If I resize the window then the file automatically
will open. It does not matter what size the window starts as or finishes as.
This happens on two out of the four computers in our engineering department
and on a few computers in our machine shop. We can open the files regularly
through excel. I tried both the suggestions above and it does not fix the
problem.
Thanks
 
Maybe your problem is video driver related? Try installing a later more
current version from the manufacturer?
 
We have certain drivers that we are allowed to use with our high-end design
software... so unfortunately we cannot really do that. Is there anything
else that we might be able to try. Also, in our engineering department, we
have three computers that are maybe a year or two old, and one that was
bought maybe two weeks ago, and we have the same problem with both computers.
We also have computers out in the shop and in some other offices that have
the problem. As far as we can tell it is not a problem that is specific to
any certain computer or anything. So we are not really sure what will fix
it.

Thanks for your input, I will look into updating the drivers and hardware in
other computers, but we are pretty limited in that area, at least in the
department I work in.
 
Do you get the same effect with other Excel-related files (for example .csv
files) or only .xls files?
 
Also, I just wanted to clarify this... the file absolutely does not open
up. It looks just like you opened the excel program and have not opened a
file yet. I tried a few more things and found out that performing any
action, such as opening up the file menu, causes the file to open. So its
like the program opens but does not open the file until you do something in
excel. Maybe this is a program issue with a loop that doesnt close until you
interupt it? Just guessing?
 
We only use .xls and .xlsm files with excel. Im not really sure what a .csv
file extension is? It does the same thing with all the excell files we have.
One weird thing is that once you open a file through explorer and just the
excel program opens up, you can click minimize and the program will minimize
then automatically come back up and load the file?
 
For some reason I'm not able to see this entire thread, so I don't know what
was suggested and/or tried.

One possible solution, from the Menu Bar:

<Tools> <Options> <General> tab,
And *uncheck*
"Ignore Other Applications".
 
Save a copy of any excel file as .csv, and see what happens when you open
it. Does it repeat the behaviour you are having trouble with?
 
We have exactly the same problem in Excel 2007. 5 out of 70 XP machines with
Office 2007. We have to either resize the Excel window to make the file show
up, or open Excel app first, then double-click on the Excel file no matter
is an xls or xlsx.

Calvin
 
ok, the problem seems to be fixed for me after adding "%1" after "C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE" /e in the XLS and XLSX file type,
OPEN.
 
Figured it would be something like that. That's why I asked the OP about
..csv files, but some people can't be helped.
 
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