Make sure that Ignore Other Applications is not selected under Tools,
Options, General.

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Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"Jodi" wrote in message
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| When I go to open up an Excel spreadsheet out of an email message in
outlook.
| I get hte message "the system cannot find the file specified".. I need to
| save the file to hardrive and then open excel and then open the document.
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| This also happens if I try to open an excel document out of file explorer.
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| Any advice?