Hi

The unregserver / regserver technique worked - thank you ever so much!!!!!

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I'm confused.

Does the file that the shortcut points to have an extension of .xla or .xls?

I've never seen this happen with shortcuts, but I have seen it happen with .xls
files themselves.

The first thing that I'd try is to reregister excel.

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

Then test it out.

If that doesn't work...

Close excel
start windows explorer
tools|folder options|file types tab
scroll down to the xls extension (microsoft excel worksheet)
click the advanced button
click on the Open item in the Actions box
click set as default
(ok your way out)

If you're really having trouble with .xla (addin) files, too and reregistering
excel didn't help, try the same stuff inside windows explorer--but for the .xla
extension.

Aaron Brett wrote:

And the text.xls file was an example filename for the post, it could have
read Bank Rec.xls opens as Bank Rec1.xls

"Aaron Brett" wrote:

Hi

The file is an xla file (not xlt) and there is not a Test.xlt in that
folder...

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Are you sure that the file is not named Test.xlt, that is a template?

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"Aaron Brett" <Aaron wrote in message
...
Hi

Just recently (not sure why it has happened), when I open an excel file
from
a shortcut I already had placed on my desktop, it opens the file and
suffixs
the workbook name with a 1 (eg Test.xls would open as Test1.xls).

This means that it is not the actual file open, but a copy (so when I
click
on save I get the save as box).

Does anyone know why this is happening and more importantly how to fix
(please!!!)

I've tried deleting the shortcut and resetting it. My Xl startup folder
is
empty apart from a PDMaker.xlt file

Aaron





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Dave Peterson