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Default clicking shortcut opens excel prog, but not highlighted file-why?

After double clicking on an excel file icon in My Computer, the Excel Program
opens, but the file/worksheet does not - just a blank grey screen. To open
the file I have to go through FileOpen in Excel. Is this because of a
problem in Excel or the shortcut?
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Default clicking shortcut opens excel prog, but not highlighted file-why?

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.

cavanman wrote:

After double clicking on an excel file icon in My Computer, the Excel Program
opens, but the file/worksheet does not - just a blank grey screen. To open
the file I have to go through FileOpen in Excel. Is this because of a
problem in Excel or the shortcut?


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