Can't recall if anyone has ever figured out why Excel will occasionally lose its
file association and "unregister" itself.

Usually occurs after a re-build of the Operating System after some disaster or
voluntary changes.

Around here, we just have the fixes due to experience and prior knowledge of
similar problems.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:44:01 -0700, Stuart
wrote:

The unregister/reregister worked. All is now well.

Any idea how this might have occurred? It didn't happen to me, it happened
to an associate, who I believe has had this happen to her before.

Stuart

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on
the file in windows explorer:

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

--- or ---

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.

Stuart wrote:

Example: Suppose I have a shortcut that points to C:\Program Files\Test
Folder\abc.xls

When I try to open this via double clicking the shortcut, it fails. I get
an error message:

Cannot open "C:\Program" followed by
Cannot open "Files\Test" followed by
Cannot open "Folder\abc.xls"

I can open this file directly by navigating to it using the Open menu. I
cannot open the file by navigating to it in Windows explorer and double
clicking it, same error as above. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Stuart

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Dave Peterson