Maybe one of these will help.

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.

An alternative might be to do:
Try Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

mike allen wrote:

i cannot open a certain excel file using windows explorer, but can open it
from inside excel. this file is the only file that this happens with (all
others i can open either through explorer or excel itself). it is like it
is corrupted, but it works fine once opened. any suggestions on how to
"clean" it off and get it back to normal?

p.s. it seems like the blaster worm coincided w/ this problem.

i know this is simplistic in nature and not a vb programming question, but i
can't get an answer. maybe someone knows right off the top of their head:
thank you, mike allen.

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Dave Peterson