Thanks Dave..... I had the same issue and the tools option worked!!!

Thanks for the tip!!!!!

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Sometimes one of these works:

Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

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Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.

DP wrote:

I have Office 2002 and can not get the Excel files to open up without opening
Excel first. I should be able to double click the file and it opens up Excel
and the file. It does that in all the other office applications but this
one. It used to do that and now it has been changed or I changed something
and don't know what it is to get it back. Can someone help me?

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Dave Peterson