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Problem opening Excel files from Windows Explorer
Hi All,
When I go to open up and Excel file from Windows Explorer by double-clicking it, a 1 is added to the filename. If I open the same file from within Excel itself there is no problem. Any ideas? Thanks |
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From Windows Explorer's Tools menu | Folder Options | File Types
Scroll to find XLS | Advanced Select Open then Edit Application used (for me running XL2003) is: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e -- Rob van Gelder - http://www.vangelder.co.nz/excel "aj" wrote in message oups.com... Hi All, When I go to open up and Excel file from Windows Explorer by double-clicking it, a 1 is added to the filename. If I open the same file from within Excel itself there is no problem. Any ideas? Thanks |
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aj
This kind of thing can happen when you double click on the f*ile in windows explorer. From an earlier post from Dave Peterson that may help: It sounds like the default behavior when you double click on* a .xls file is set to NEW, not OPEN. Try a test to verify: Right click on the file when you're in windows explorer. You should get a popup with a bunch of options. I get Open *and New right at the top of the list. Open is bolded which means that Open is th*e default action when I double click on the file. If your default action is NEW, then windows will tell excel *to open it like a template. That's why you'd get the myname1 (with no extensi*on). If your situation matches, this is what I'd do next (the eas*iest, I think). Close Excel and Windows Start Button|Run excel /unregserver then Windows Start Button|Run excel /regserver The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows regis*try to excel's factory defaults. Now you could check by rightclicking again. If it looks good, try double clicking and see if it really worked! ========== Option 2. (A little more work.) I use windows98, so depending on your version of windows, it* might not be quite the same--but it'll be pretty close. Close excel open Windows explorer (flying windows-E is a quick way) View|Folder Options|File Types Scroll down to Microsoft Excel Worksheet and select that Click the Edit button You'll see a list of Actions in a little box. Open should be the bold one (here, too!) If it's not, then click on Open and then click the "make def*ault" button. (Ok your way out.) Gord Dibben Excel MVP On 29 Jan 2005 19:59:27 -0800, "aj" wrote: Hi All, When I go to open up and Excel file from Windows Explorer by double-clicking it, a 1 is added to the filename. If I open the same file from within Excel itself there is no problem. Any ideas? Thanks |
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