It should work in Vista (an Operating system--not an application).

Did you try the ignore other applications suggestion?

Do you have more than one version of excel installed? Are you sure you did the
/regserver and /unregserver stuff to the correct version?

What version of excel are you running?

(That's right, I don't have another guess!)

John Bower wrote:

I tried all of those things and it still says it can't find the files. Does
the /unregserver and /regserver work the same in Vista? I did as you
suggested and got no errors, but all that seemed to happen was Excel started
each time.
Please help Dave!

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

My first guess is that you didn't type in the command correctly.

There's a space between excel and /unregserver

And watch your typing. Spelling mistakes count against you!

There's

S Evans wrote:

OK... I unticked the ignore other applications box and now this is REALLY
wierd. I get 4 error msgs saying windows can't find the file, which is the
path of the filename I am trying to open. e.g Can't find My.xls, then can't
find Documents.xls, etc. If I click ok on all of the error msgs it opens the
file!
When I try start| run| excel/unregsrevr and regserver it says windows can't
find the files. This is all way over my head. I am just glad you guys are out
there and know what is going on!
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sevans

"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)

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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.

Sevans wrote:

When I double click a filename in my documents excel opens with a message
saying it can't find the file. If I open excel first and then go file/open
and browse to the file, it opens no problem. I have re-installed Excell and
it still won't work.

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