I am having a problem opening excel files. If I click on and excel file, it
tries to open it in access and the message says "MIcrosoft Access can't
change the working directory to 'h:\office\database.'" I don't want to open
my files in access. It is doing it to all my excel files. Anyone know how
to fix this? I have reloaded MS office.
Thanks,
Carol

I'm surprised that reinstalling Office didn't help.

This may work:

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.

(But it's essentially doing part of what the reinstall did.)

If it fails, this is what I'd try next:

ShiftRight click on one of the offending files (.xls???)
Click on "Open With"
and choose Excel (or Choose Program and browse to excel.exe)
and check that "always use the selected program..." box.

Repeat for each offending filetype you want to fix (like *.xlt).

cfarns wrote:

I am having a problem opening excel files. If I click on and excel file, it
tries to open it in access and the message says "MIcrosoft Access can't
change the working directory to 'h:\office\database.'" I don't want to open
my files in access. It is doing it to all my excel files. Anyone know how
to fix this? I have reloaded MS office.
Thanks,
Carol

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Dave Peterson

Thanks Dave, the second fix worked perfectly!! I really appreciate your help.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I'm surprised that reinstalling Office didn't help.

This may work:

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.

(But it's essentially doing part of what the reinstall did.)

If it fails, this is what I'd try next:

ShiftRight click on one of the offending files (.xls???)
Click on "Open With"
and choose Excel (or Choose Program and browse to excel.exe)
and check that "always use the selected program..." box.

Repeat for each offending filetype you want to fix (like *.xlt).

cfarns wrote:

I am having a problem opening excel files. If I click on and excel file, it
tries to open it in access and the message says "MIcrosoft Access can't
change the working directory to 'h:\office\database.'" I don't want to open
my files in access. It is doing it to all my excel files. Anyone know how
to fix this? I have reloaded MS office.
Thanks,
Carol

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Dave Peterson