Unable to open excel spreadsheet

[Guest]

I was using office 2002 and have found all of a sudden I cannot open excel
spreadsheets by double clicking the file thru explorer or my computer. Excel
opens but the spreadsheet doesn't . I tried updating to Office 2003 but this
didn't help. I am able to open the same file on a different PC and I am able
to open the file by opening excel and then opening the spreadsheet.

 

[Dave Peterson]

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.

Maybe one of these will work for you.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Dave the Ignore other applications worked like a dream. Thanks for
your time. ..

 

[Guest]

Dave
Thanks for solving this problem for a lot of people. Any idea why this is
occurring to hundreds of people now and never occurred before??
Many thanks Gary Jackson

 

[Dave Peterson]

I have no idea how this occurs.

I don't know how/why that setting gets toggled (without some sort of manual
intervention or macro) and I don't know why windows loses its settings.

But thanks for asking <vbg>.

 

[Gord Dibben]

Gary

Just for info.............this has been a problem for many years and through all
versions of Excel back to 97 that I can recall.

As for why it happens............who knows?

Office Updates?

User fingers?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP