Hi Stuart!
Files Not Opening from Explorer or from Email
Double clicking on files from within Explorer or attached to e-mails
should cause Excel to start and to load the file. Often this fails.
Excel starts but the file is not loaded. However, with Excel open the
file may load with a normal double click and / or it can be opened
from within Excel by the normal File > Open method.
Most likely fix for this problem is from within Excel:
Tools > Options > General
Uncheck "Ignore other Applications"
OK
Close Excel and try again
If this doesn't work try to re-register Excel in the Registry using
the following routine.
Close Excel
On the Windows Taskbar
Start > Run
Type the following exactly including the space between exe and /
excel.exe /regserver
OK.
You might have to designate a full path to the excel.exe file
You'll have to locate the Excel.exe file using
Start > Search > For Files and Folders
Search for the excel.exe file and note down its location
Then
Start > Run
Type the regserver command using the path you found.
C:\yourpath\excel.exe /regserver
If you have multiple versions of Excel installed you will have a
choice of which version to use as the default.
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Regards
Norman Harker MVP (Excel)
Sydney, Australia
(e-mail address removed)
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