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Excel 2003 problem opening existing spreadsheet
I have a spreadsheet that I can't open. When I double-click on it
Excel 2003 starts up but the spreadsheet doesn't open. It's just as if the Excel application was started without any file open. The .xls file size indicates my data is still there. My last update to it was to add two worksheets - the 16th and 17th, I believe. One of them contains a plot. The volume of data in the SS is not large. I have no problem opening other .xls files, just this one. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dick |
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Excel 2003 problem opening existing spreadsheet
Could by chance you have hidden the workbook window and then saved it? If
so, it will open but be hidden. It sounds like you did as you didn't mention that Excel is crashing. Click on Window, Unhide and see if the workbook is there. Bob Flanagan Macro Systems http://www.add-ins.com Productivity add-ins and downloadable books on VB macros for Excel wrote in message ups.com... I have a spreadsheet that I can't open. When I double-click on it Excel 2003 starts up but the spreadsheet doesn't open. It's just as if the Excel application was started without any file open. The .xls file size indicates my data is still there. My last update to it was to add two worksheets - the 16th and 17th, I believe. One of them contains a plot. The volume of data in the SS is not large. I have no problem opening other .xls files, just this one. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dick |
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On Apr 6, 5:52 pm, "Bob Flanagan" wrote:
Could by chance you have hidden the workbook window and then saved it? If so, it will open but be hidden. It sounds like you did as you didn't mention that Excel is crashing. Click on Window, Unhide and see if the workbook is there. Bob Flanagan Macro Systemshttp://www.add-ins.com Productivity add-ins and downloadable books on VB macros for Excel wrote in message ups.com... I have a spreadsheet that I can't open. When I double-click on it Excel 2003 starts up but the spreadsheet doesn't open. It's just as if the Excel application was started without any file open. The .xls file size indicates my data is still there. My last update to it was to add two worksheets - the 16th and 17th, I believe. One of them contains a plot. The volume of data in the SS is not large. I have no problem opening other .xls files, just this one. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dick Bob, Thanks so much! That's exactly what my problem was. The workbook was inadvertantly hidden and dumb me didn't know about hidden workbooks. I'm back in business and happy! Dick |
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I am experiencing something very similar. No crashs or error messages of any
kind. Just yesterday and booted up the PC, double-clicked on my excel file icon on my desktop and excel openned by the workbook did not. However, if I click on "open" from the file menu in excel I can open the workbook and everything is normal. Is there a way to get the workbook to open again in excel when I click on my desktop excel icon? This 2 step process is painful. "Bob Flanagan" wrote: Could by chance you have hidden the workbook window and then saved it? If so, it will open but be hidden. It sounds like you did as you didn't mention that Excel is crashing. Click on Window, Unhide and see if the workbook is there. Bob Flanagan Macro Systems http://www.add-ins.com Productivity add-ins and downloadable books on VB macros for Excel wrote in message ups.com... I have a spreadsheet that I can't open. When I double-click on it Excel 2003 starts up but the spreadsheet doesn't open. It's just as if the Excel application was started without any file open. The .xls file size indicates my data is still there. My last update to it was to add two worksheets - the 16th and 17th, I believe. One of them contains a plot. The volume of data in the SS is not large. I have no problem opening other .xls files, just this one. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dick |
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Excel 2003 problem opening existing 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. Kane wrote: I am experiencing something very similar. No crashs or error messages of any kind. Just yesterday and booted up the PC, double-clicked on my excel file icon on my desktop and excel openned by the workbook did not. However, if I click on "open" from the file menu in excel I can open the workbook and everything is normal. Is there a way to get the workbook to open again in excel when I click on my desktop excel icon? This 2 step process is painful. "Bob Flanagan" wrote: Could by chance you have hidden the workbook window and then saved it? If so, it will open but be hidden. It sounds like you did as you didn't mention that Excel is crashing. Click on Window, Unhide and see if the workbook is there. Bob Flanagan Macro Systems http://www.add-ins.com Productivity add-ins and downloadable books on VB macros for Excel wrote in message ups.com... I have a spreadsheet that I can't open. When I double-click on it Excel 2003 starts up but the spreadsheet doesn't open. It's just as if the Excel application was started without any file open. The .xls file size indicates my data is still there. My last update to it was to add two worksheets - the 16th and 17th, I believe. One of them contains a plot. The volume of data in the SS is not large. I have no problem opening other .xls files, just this one. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dick -- Dave Peterson |
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