Actually, I found this is not even a shortcut issue. I am not able to open
any excel spreadsheet from outside Excel 2007. If I click on an Excel 2007
file, it will not open. I have to have Excel 2007 open and select the file
from there. What's the deal?

"jwatters" wrote:

If I have an excel shortcut on my desktop, it does not let me specify the
target file to open, I can only open a blank document. If, from within excel
2007, I specify to send file to shortcut on desktop, a shortcut is created,
but it is not able to find the .xlsm file (for macro enabled) or .xlsx file
(for regular file), even though it has the correct directory path and file
name. Is this an issue with Excel 2007 or with Windows Vista 64?