When I try to open Excel workbooks, worksheets, spreadsheets, or any of my
Office Documents associated with Excel from shortcut, my pc, search, browser,
exlorer, etc, Excelwill start but does not open file. All I get is a blank
window (not a wkspc) within the Excel program. To open the file, I must
browse with Excel to same location I tried to open from originally. This
happens with local file or a network shared file and just started happening,
as I never had this problem in the past 3 yrs.
No new programs have been installed that I can recall, no others have been
on either PC. Have tried all I know to do and now seek assistance.

Try the usual fix(es) for this problem.

ToolsOptionsGeneral uncheck "Ignore other Applications"
Exit Excel and try again

If this doesn't work try to re-register Excel

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

1) StartRun "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)OK.
2) StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK.

See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.
In that case StartRun "C:\yourpath\excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:48:05 -0700, GG-Gr8Guy
wrote:

When I try to open Excel workbooks, worksheets, spreadsheets, or any of my
Office Documents associated with Excel from shortcut, my pc, search, browser,
exlorer, etc, Excelwill start but does not open file. All I get is a blank
window (not a wkspc) within the Excel program. To open the file, I must
browse with Excel to same location I tried to open from originally. This
happens with local file or a network shared file and just started happening,
as I never had this problem in the past 3 yrs.
No new programs have been installed that I can recall, no others have been
on either PC. Have tried all I know to do and now seek assistance.

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.

GG-Gr8Guy wrote:

When I try to open Excel workbooks, worksheets, spreadsheets, or any of my
Office Documents associated with Excel from shortcut, my pc, search, browser,
exlorer, etc, Excelwill start but does not open file. All I get is a blank
window (not a wkspc) within the Excel program. To open the file, I must
browse with Excel to same location I tried to open from originally. This
happens with local file or a network shared file and just started happening,
as I never had this problem in the past 3 yrs.
No new programs have been installed that I can recall, no others have been
on either PC. Have tried all I know to do and now seek assistance.

--

Dave Peterson