Have a user who is running excel 2000 when they try to open a excel worksheet
they receive a blank worksheet - the only way from them to open up a
worksheet is to go to the open and select the file. 25 users at this site
only one having this problem. Anybody have experience with this ?

Check Windows Explorer Tools FolderOptions FileTypesTab and be sure
the XLS extention is associated with Excel.

hth
Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"JVenner" wrote:

Have a user who is running excel 2000 when they try to open a excel worksheet
they receive a blank worksheet - the only way from them to open up a
worksheet is to go to the open and select the file. 25 users at this site
only one having this problem. Anybody have experience with this ?

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)

--- 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.

Maybe one of these will work for you.

JVenner wrote:

Have a user who is running excel 2000 when they try to open a excel worksheet
they receive a blank worksheet - the only way from them to open up a
worksheet is to go to the open and select the file. 25 users at this site
only one having this problem. Anybody have experience with this ?

--

Dave Peterson

File Associations were there - deleted file association and then re-linked
associations - next thing I guess to try is removing excel from the machine
and then reinstalling.

"JVenner" wrote:

Have a user who is running excel 2000 when they try to open a excel worksheet
they receive a blank worksheet - the only way from them to open up a
worksheet is to go to the open and select the file. 25 users at this site
only one having this problem. Anybody have experience with this ?

Did you try either of Dave's suggestions?

I would do that before re-installing.

One more thing to try............

Go to StartSettingsFolderOptionsFile Types. Scroll down to MS Excel
Worksheet. Then if running Win98 OS Edit select "Open" and Edit.

If using WinXP OS you would scroll down to .XLS then "Advanced"OpenEdit.

In Command line the path should be similar to this....

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE9\EXCEL.EXE" /e (delete the <sp/e if
you want Book1 to open.

You must have the double quotes.

Below have "use DDE" checked and this in the DDE message box....[open("%1")]

Application should read "Excel"(no quotes)


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:10:02 -0700, JVenner
wrote:

File Associations were there - deleted file association and then re-linked
associations - next thing I guess to try is removing excel from the machine
and then reinstalling.

"JVenner" wrote:

Have a user who is running excel 2000 when they try to open a excel worksheet
they receive a blank worksheet - the only way from them to open up a
worksheet is to go to the open and select the file. 25 users at this site
only one having this problem. Anybody have experience with this ?