Uncheck "Ignore other applications" under Tools, options, General.

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Jim Rech
Excel MVP
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| Hi all-
| If I try to open an excel file from a folder or explorer, Excel will
| run, but the file will not open. I do not get an error message.
|
| But, if I open excel, and then go File--Open-- Excel file, then the
| file will open.
|
| I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling Office(SBE 2003), but that did
| not work. I did just try the 'excel.exe /regserver' solution, but that
| did not work and I got an error:
|
| "One of your object librarie (stdole32.tlb) is missing or damaged.
| Please run setup to install it.
|
| Though the command excel.exe /regserver did finish what ever it was
| doing after the error.
|
| Any ideas? Thanks!
|