Why do my excel documents not open from the desktop?

[Guest]

Why do my excel documents not open from the desktop? I can only open
documents when I am already in Excel. I assume some setting is off. Where
should I look? Thanks

 

[Gord Dibben]

Try the usual fix(es) for this problem.

Tools>Options>General uncheck "Ignore other Applications"
Exit Excel and try again

If this doesn't work try to re-register Excel

Close Excel first and
On the Windows Taskbar

1) Start>Run "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)>OK.
2) Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.
See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.
In that case Start>Run "C:\yourpath\excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

 

[Guest]

Perfect. Thank you.

 

[Gord Dibben]

Excellent.

Thanks for the feedback.

Gord

Perfect. Thank you.