David,

Thanks for the note. But I was able to fix the behavior by going to
Tools/Options/General Tab and turning off "Ingore other applications". Not
sure why that fixes this behavior but it does. Found some other newsgroup
notes on this. Thanks for taking the time to respond.

"David McRitchie" wrote in message
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Hi Al,
This is what I have under My Computer, Tools, Folder Options, File Types
for .xls Microsoft Excel Worksheet
advanced button, Open, Edit button

Action: Open
Application used to perform an action:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\EXCEL.EXE" /e

Application: Excel
DDE Application Not Running: (blank)
Topic: System

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HTH,
David McRitchie,
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if
you don't.
- Pete Seeger

From: "Al Franz"
My problem is that if I click on an Excel File in Windows Explorer (i.e.
File Browser) Excel opens up but it does not open up the file. Somehow
my
association is messed up, not sure what is causing this.