You 1st need to find out from which office directory your excel is installed
(Office 10, office11, office 12). Do a search on your c:\ drive and locate
Excel.Exe.

Then go back to window explorer and verify the file types match the corrrect
directory (settings/folder options/file types for the XLS entry)

If you don't find the problem then look in the OPEN for the XLS Advance -
Edit

Action: &Open
Application: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e (or
equivalent)
Use DDE checked

DDE Message: [open("%1")]
Application: Excel
DDE Application not running : Nothing
Topic: system





"Brian Murphy" wrote:

I have xl2003 messed up from coinstalling xl2000 and xl2007.
I've uninstalled all traces of office,
and reinstalled office 2003

When I double click an xls file in explorer, excel starts but doesn't
load the file.
If I double click another xls, another session of excel starts and
doesn't load the file.

I've tried excel.exe /unregserver and /regserver with no improvement
I've checked the settings/folder options/file types for the XLS entry
and found nothing wrong.

Any suggestions on where the problem might be?

Thanks,

Brian Murphy