I was using office 2002 and have found all of a sudden I cannot open excel
spreadsheets by double clicking the file thru explorer or my computer. Excel
opens but the spreadsheet doesn't . I tried updating to Office 2003 but this
didn't help. I am able to open the same file on a different PC and I am able
to open the file by opening excel and then opening the spreadsheet.

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.

Alison wrote:

I was using office 2002 and have found all of a sudden I cannot open excel
spreadsheets by double clicking the file thru explorer or my computer. Excel
opens but the spreadsheet doesn't . I tried updating to Office 2003 but this
didn't help. I am able to open the same file on a different PC and I am able
to open the file by opening excel and then opening the spreadsheet.

--

Dave Peterson

Thanks Dave the Ignore other applications worked like a dream. Thanks for
your time. ..

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

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.

Alison wrote:

I was using office 2002 and have found all of a sudden I cannot open excel
spreadsheets by double clicking the file thru explorer or my computer. Excel
opens but the spreadsheet doesn't . I tried updating to Office 2003 but this
didn't help. I am able to open the same file on a different PC and I am able
to open the file by opening excel and then opening the spreadsheet.

--

Dave Peterson

Dave
Thanks for solving this problem for a lot of people. Any idea why this is
occurring to hundreds of people now and never occurred before??
Many thanks Gary Jackson

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

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.

Alison wrote:

I was using office 2002 and have found all of a sudden I cannot open excel
spreadsheets by double clicking the file thru explorer or my computer. Excel
opens but the spreadsheet doesn't . I tried updating to Office 2003 but this
didn't help. I am able to open the same file on a different PC and I am able
to open the file by opening excel and then opening the spreadsheet.

--

Dave Peterson

I have no idea how this occurs.

I don't know how/why that setting gets toggled (without some sort of manual
intervention or macro) and I don't know why windows loses its settings.

But thanks for asking <vbg.

garyj wrote:

Dave
Thanks for solving this problem for a lot of people. Any idea why this is
occurring to hundreds of people now and never occurred before??
Many thanks Gary Jackson

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

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.

Alison wrote:

I was using office 2002 and have found all of a sudden I cannot open excel
spreadsheets by double clicking the file thru explorer or my computer. Excel
opens but the spreadsheet doesn't . I tried updating to Office 2003 but this
didn't help. I am able to open the same file on a different PC and I am able
to open the file by opening excel and then opening the spreadsheet.

--

Dave Peterson


--

Dave Peterson

Gary

Just for info.............this has been a problem for many years and through all
versions of Excel back to 97 that I can recall.

As for why it happens............who knows?

Office Updates?

User fingers?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 21:44:08 -0700, garyj
wrote:

Dave
Thanks for solving this problem for a lot of people. Any idea why this is
occurring to hundreds of people now and never occurred before??
Many thanks Gary Jackson

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

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.

Alison wrote:

I was using office 2002 and have found all of a sudden I cannot open excel
spreadsheets by double clicking the file thru explorer or my computer. Excel
opens but the spreadsheet doesn't . I tried updating to Office 2003 but this
didn't help. I am able to open the same file on a different PC and I am able
to open the file by opening excel and then opening the spreadsheet.

--

Dave Peterson