File Opening Trouble
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)
(xl2003 menus)
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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.
JGreg7 wrote:
When I double click on an Excel file to open it, I get a series of messages
that files can not be found as follows:
Personal.xls is locked€¦
C:\My.xls cannot be found€¦.
C:\Documents.xls cannot be found€¦.
C:\Documents.xls cannot be found€¦.
C:\and.xls cannot be found€¦.
C:\Settings.xls cannot be found€¦.etc.
It seems to be trying to open each word in the directory path as a separate
file. The separation seems to occur whenever it reaches a space or a slash
in the file path. This only happens with Excel files. All other files work
normally. Opening the file in Excel using the menu file/open€¦. works
normally.
Any ideas what could be causing this?
(Windows XP SP2, Office 2003)
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Dave Peterson
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