xlsx extension

[Jason Sawyer]

After installing Office 2007 and the service packs (1 & 2) on WindowsXP some
of my users work just fine. Others though (and this is random), do not have
Excel associated with the .xlsx extension. If I right click and choose 'open
with...' it will not let me select Excel even if I browse to the program
within the Program Files. If I log into Windows using the admin account
everything is associated correctly but not for that user. Any thoughts or
suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have tried several things that I
have seen on the web but have no success. Thanks.

 

[Eduardo]

Hi,
xlsx is excel viewer, is this file being send by email,

 

[Chip Pearson]

xlsx is excel viewer, is this file being send by email,

No, xlsx is not the Excel viewer. Xlsx is a "no VBA code allowed"
format used by Excel 2007.

Try running Excel from the Run dialog with the /regserver switch.
Close Excel, go to the Windows Start menu, choose Run and enter

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Excel.exe" /regserver

Change the path to the Excel 2007 exe file as installed on the
machine. /regserver causes Excel to restore itself to factory
defaults and will restore the associates between the xlsx extension
and the Excel program.

Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional
Excel Product Group, 1998 - 2009
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com
(email on web site)

 

[coltheplumb]

I think i have the same problem ,i cant open anything sent (as attachment
with e mail )with the .xlsx extension
only way i found was save it to my documents ,then open up office 2007 exel,
open my documents from there, down to bottom and choose "all Files" the
attachment i have saved then shows in there and i just open it . that works
for me but a load of soddin about !!