Thanks Gord,

The post showed up as a new post. Even though there was the "" at the
beginning of the subject line, I missed that and didn't read past the last
post not realizing this was a string of posts in progress. All I saw was
the last post prior to my reply.

Sorry for my confusion.
Paul

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"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message
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Paul

OP wants to use Excel to open *.IIF and *.TXT files.

Opening Excel files is not the issue.


Gord

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:08:56 -0500, "PCLIVE"
wrote:

Dave Peterson helped me out with something similar to this. See if this
helps.

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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 the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.

Maybe one of these will work for you.
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