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)

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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 some of the windows registry to
excel's factory defaults.

Maybe one of these will work for you.

Dale Fye wrote:

This is a relatively new problem (last couple of days). I've had no new
software or patches installed, but whenever I double click on an Excel file
to open it, Excel will open, but the workbook that I double-clicked fails to
open.

Also, from Outlook, I must save the file to disk before opening it using
Excel's File-Open menu item.

Any ideas?
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