Sometimes one of these works:

Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

--- or ---

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.

Ira wrote:

Hi,
It seems I can't open a spreadsheet by double clicking the icon for it from
within a given folder. When I do try to open something from the desktop it
just launches excel but does not open the file.

I can open anything I need to from within Excel. (File Open document
name....)

Any ideas??

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Dave Peterson