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Excel is opening a new workbook when I try to open an exsisting fi
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Office 2003 Pro (with latest updates). WinXP Pro SP2 When I try to double click on any Excel file to open it up, Excel will open up and I can see the file name but it is a new workbook that is blank no data. If I open Excel and browse to the file and open it that way it will open up with all data there. I tried to uninstall Office 2003 Pro. And then reinstall. Still the same problem. Can any one help me find the solution.. I suspect that it is a reg. entry that is the porblem, but I don't know where to start. PS. There are no problems with any other app. in Office Thanks. John |
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Excel is opening a new workbook when I try to open an exsisting fi
When you write that you see the filename, do you mean the name of the file you
double clicked on? If yes, then try: window|Arrange|Tiled and resize it anyway you like. If no (you're seeing something like book1 in the title bar), then .... 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. olsenbanden2 wrote: Hi Office 2003 Pro (with latest updates). WinXP Pro SP2 When I try to double click on any Excel file to open it up, Excel will open up and I can see the file name but it is a new workbook that is blank no data. If I open Excel and browse to the file and open it that way it will open up with all data there. I tried to uninstall Office 2003 Pro. And then reinstall. Still the same problem. Can any one help me find the solution.. I suspect that it is a reg. entry that is the porblem, but I don't know where to start. PS. There are no problems with any other app. in Office Thanks. John -- Dave Peterson |
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Maybe a long shot here, but did you accidentally save a blank worksheet in
Excel STARTUP? "olsenbanden2" wrote: Hi Office 2003 Pro (with latest updates). WinXP Pro SP2 When I try to double click on any Excel file to open it up, Excel will open up and I can see the file name but it is a new workbook that is blank no data. If I open Excel and browse to the file and open it that way it will open up with all data there. I tried to uninstall Office 2003 Pro. And then reinstall. Still the same problem. Can any one help me find the solution.. I suspect that it is a reg. entry that is the porblem, but I don't know where to start. PS. There are no problems with any other app. in Office Thanks. John |
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Excel is opening a new workbook when I try to open an exsisting fi
Dave you are the man.
The uncheck of Ignore other applications did the trick. Thank you. You made my day. John "olsenbanden2" wrote: Hi Office 2003 Pro (with latest updates). WinXP Pro SP2 When I try to double click on any Excel file to open it up, Excel will open up and I can see the file name but it is a new workbook that is blank no data. If I open Excel and browse to the file and open it that way it will open up with all data there. I tried to uninstall Office 2003 Pro. And then reinstall. Still the same problem. Can any one help me find the solution.. I suspect that it is a reg. entry that is the porblem, but I don't know where to start. PS. There are no problems with any other app. in Office Thanks. John |
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