retrieving an Excel file

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ron Williams
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Ron Williams

When I double click on an existing Excel file, the Excel
program appears but not the file. In the lower left
corner, a "ready" message is displayed. I must then
double click on the file again in order to retrieve it.
What must I do to get the file to open on the first double-
click?
 
Sometimes one of these works:

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.

An alternative might be to do:
Try Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

(Did you get any error message at all? If these didn't help, post back with any
error message.)
 
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