Problem Opening Excel Files

[Todd Schoonover]

The past few days my Windows XP Service Pack 1 operating
system has been acting funny. I've already reinstalled
but am having the same issues.

If I am in Outlook and select an Excel spreadsheet
attachment to open, Excel will launch but it will not open
the attachment. Instead in Outlook I get a message that
says "The system cannot find the file specified."

If I try to open a recent spreadsheet from my Start Menu
list of documents, it launches Excel but will not open the
spreadsheet, nor does it give me any message.

If I double-click on an Excel spreadsheet in Windows
Explorer, again Excel starts but will not open the file.

The only way I can open an Excel spreadsheet is to open it
through Excel by using Excel's recent documents list or by
searching for it on the disk via Excel's Open option.

This just started a few days ago, and I don't believe I've
changed anything that would have this result. Any
suggestions?

 

[Gord Dibben]

Todd

Excel has most likely lost its file association.

Start>Run "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes and note the space before the /
mark).

Then re-register by Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver

You may have to enter your full path to excel.exe....in that case surround
with quotes as in..... "C:\mypath\to Excel\somewhere\excel.exe" /unregserver

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

 

[Guest]

Todd,

Did this fix for Excel work? I have had the exact same problem (Round about the same day actually!)
and having tried this fix, it hasn't worked for me.....

My location was "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\excel.exe"
Tried both with and without the full address - no joy?

Can anybody suggest anything else.
(p.s. re-installed Office XP and that didn't work either)

Kevin Stroud

----- Gord Dibben wrote: -----

Todd

Excel has most likely lost its file association.

Start>Run "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes and note the space before the /
mark).

Then re-register by Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver

You may have to enter your full path to excel.exe....in that case surround
with quotes as in..... "C:\mypath\to Excel\somewhere\excel.exe" /unregserver

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

 

[TMorgan]

The past few days my Windows XP Service Pack 1 operating

system has been acting funny. I've already reinstalled
but am having the same issues.

If I am in Outlook and select an Excel spreadsheet
attachment to open, Excel will launch but it will not open
the attachment. Instead in Outlook I get a message that
says "The system cannot find the file specified."

If I try to open a recent spreadsheet from my Start Menu
list of documents, it launches Excel but will not open the
spreadsheet, nor does it give me any message.

If I double-click on an Excel spreadsheet in Windows
Explorer, again Excel starts but will not open the file.

The only way I can open an Excel spreadsheet is to open it
through Excel by using Excel's recent documents list or by
searching for it on the disk via Excel's Open option.

This just started a few days ago, and I don't believe I've
changed anything that would have this result. Any
suggestions?

Has anyone come up with a fix for this? I am having the same proble
and have tried everyones suggestions

 

[Gord Dibben]

Has anyone come up with a fix for this? I am having the same problem

and have tried everyones suggestions.

And those suggestions were..........?

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

 

[TMorgan]

All the suggestions from previous posts.

Anyway, I was able to fix the problem by going to:

'www.support.microsoft.com
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304424)

and following the directions. The only thing was I had to reboot afte
doing the registry edits which was not one of the steps described

 

[Christonian]

*When I open Excel file by going through this steps:
1.Start Excel program
2.Go to File menu and highlight Open
When I click on pull down menu, the screen froze, and it takes abou
1 min before it shows the list of all drives.

I have tried to disable antivirus, upgrade to office 2003, try to ru
in the safe mode, change default location to open Excel to C: o
network drive, uncheck ignore application under tool menu in Exce
and un-register/re-register Excel, but none of the st
eps fix the problem.

Anyone has this kind of problem? Please let me know your solution.

Thanks,
Khiat *

Hey, this problem haunted Me, and I got it fixed when my IT guy finall
found out why my network connection was fried, as soon as he fixed i
so I could print, the problem was solved. Then, I moved offices an
though I was able to surf, e-mail etc, the network sharing betwee
computers was down. I double-clicked on my computer and there wer
four network sharing connections that said "disconnected".
highlighted and deleted all four at once, and then my navigation i
excel was fixed. No more waiting forever just to navigate through th
folders. Of course, when my IT guy came back I had to have hi
PROPERLY restore my network connections. All is now good! Best luck
this is a frustrating problem

 

[Christonian]

*When I open Excel file by going through this steps:
1.Start Excel program
2.Go to File menu and highlight Open
When I click on pull down menu, the screen froze, and it takes abou
1 min before it shows the list of all drives.

I have tried to disable antivirus, upgrade to office 2003, try to ru
in the safe mode, change default location to open Excel to C: o
network drive, uncheck ignore application under tool menu in Exce
and un-register/re-register Excel, but none of the st
eps fix the problem.

Anyone has this kind of problem? Please let me know your solution.

Thanks,
Khiat *

Hey, this problem haunted Me, and I got it fixed when my IT guy finall
found out why my network connection was fried, as soon as he fixed i
so I could print, the problem was solved. Then, I moved offices an
though I was able to surf, e-mail etc, the network sharing betwee
computers was down. I double-clicked on my computer and there wer
four network sharing connections that said "disconnected".
highlighted and deleted all four at once, and then my navigation i
excel was fixed. No more waiting forever just to navigate through th
folders. Of course, when my IT guy came back I had to have hi
PROPERLY restore my network connections. All is now good! Best luck
this is a frustrating problem!

Christonia