Well known bug. No universal solution.

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Jim
"Rich W." wrote in message
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| If Excel is not open, and the user goes through Windows Explorer,
| double-clicks on an xls or xlsx file, it initiates Excel 2007 and the file
is
| brought up.
|
| BUT, the user needs to minimize and then maximize or restore the Excel
| Window to see the spreadsheet.
|
| However, when the user opens Excel via the shortcut that runs Excel.exe,
and
| then goes through the Excel interface to access the file, the file opens
and
| is immediately viewable.
|
| All updates have been applied (including SP1 for Office 2007).
|
| Any ideas as to why Excel would behave like this?
|
| Thank you in advance . . .
|
| Rich