Saved file won't open when double clicked

[Guest]

XP Home; SP2. Office 2003.

Sunday, when I double click on a saved .xls file, it opened to the workbook
fine.

Monday, double click the same file and a blank file opens... all the task
buttons are there, just no worksheets, nothing... just grey. If I then click
File/Open and navigate to the file, it will open the information when I
select it.

As of Monday, no saved file will open unless we use the File/Open way.
However, just double clicking the excel program itself will open a blank
workbook, three tabs at bottom, all pretty and everything.

Any help would be appreciated!

Robert

 

[Guest]

Tools > Options > General

Make sure the Ignore other applications checkbox is cleared.

 

[Guest]

Gary's Student,

Thank you for responding... and HOORAH!!! it worked.

Thank you thank you thank you.

Robert

 

[Sol]

Hi!
I'm having the same trouble with office 2007, XP prof sp2. I have
unchecked the "Ignore other applications"-box, but it doesn't help!

Anyone know???


Sol

 

[Sol]

I found the answer!

zmoj writes:

I found a solution on another forum that seems to be working for me. I
had a file called "PDFMaker.xla" in my XLStart directory (C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\XLSTART). Once I removed this file,
Excel started opening files without delay. I also was still able to
create PDF's with my current "PDF or XPS" add-in.

see
<http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1201630&SiteID=17>


This solved the problem!!!

Sol