Excel docs not saving as excel docs
What happened when you tried the "excel.exe /regserver"?
Error message or nothing?
For Word you would have gone to StartRun "winword /r"
Excel has the "excel.exe /regserver"
Try this.................................
Open Windows Explorer.
Find an Excel file........*.xls
Right-click on it and "Open With"
Browse to Excel and select. making sure to checkmark "always use this etc."
This is the same as re-registering, but a different method.
Gord
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:18:01 -0700, beth wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions, but nothing worked. Isn't there a similar
command for this problem as there was for Word (my word docs were being saved
as wordpad text files) It's the same type of problem - I open excel, open
files, and each file name has a logo that is the square with red and blue
shapes in it rather than the standard excel logo. I can open the document
within excel, but if I try to open it going through "my docs" folder, the
"unable to open" message appears.
Thanks for your help on this.
"Gord Dibben" wrote:
Beth
Try the usual fix(es) for this problem.
ToolsOptionsGeneral uncheck "Ignore other Applications"
Exit Excel and try again
If this doesn't work try to re-register Excel
Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar
1) StartRun "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)OK.
2) StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK.
See the space between exe and /regserver
You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.
In that case StartRun "C:\yourpath\excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK.
Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:46:02 -0700, beth wrote:
When I create and save an excel doc in Office 2003, I cannot open it from any
other file other than excel (my docs, etc). I get the "Windows cannot open
this file" dialogue box. Also, the icon/logo is not the standard excel logo.
This holds true for all of my excel docs whether I created them on my
computer or opened them from email.
I had the same problem with Word docs until I did the "winword /r" thing
(which I found on this community site), but I can't find an answer for excel.
Thanks.
Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
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