Unable to read file

[Ron Jones]

Office XP - excel 2002 - All of s sudden I cannot read any
of my excel files. Does anyone have a fix for this?

 

[Norman Harker]

Hi Ron!

If you can open Excel and open files from within Excel, You may want
to try one of these:

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)


Failing that, what error messages are you getting?

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Regards
Norman Harker MVP (Excel)
Sydney, Australia
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[Ron Jones]

I get the same error message - "Unable to read file"

ron

 

[Norman Harker]

Hi Ron!

Have you tried opening on another computer?

Have you been saving files in Excel to a floppy disc rather than copy
to floppy, copy from floppy to hard and then opening from the hard
drive?


--
Regards
Norman Harker MVP (Excel)
Sydney, Australia
(e-mail address removed)
Excel and Word Function Lists (Classifications, Syntax and Arguments)
available free to good homes.

 

[Michelle]

Did you ever get an answer to your question?
The same thing is happening to me, also all Word files
and all PowerPoint presentations.

 

[Dave Peterson]

You may want to try reregistering excel (and word and powerpoint):

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.

I know that MSWord has the same /regserver option--not sure about PPT.