This is a relatively new problem (last couple of days). I've had no new
software or patches installed, but whenever I double click on an Excel file
to open it, Excel will open, but the workbook that I double-clicked fails to
open.

Also, from Outlook, I must save the file to disk before opening it using
Excel's File-Open menu item.

Any ideas?
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Click Tools, Options, General, UNcheck "Ignore other applications"

try it again.

Dale Fye wrote:

This is a relatively new problem (last couple of days). I've had no new
software or patches installed, but whenever I double click on an Excel file
to open it, Excel will open, but the workbook that I double-clicked fails to
open.

Also, from Outlook, I must save the file to disk before opening it using
Excel's File-Open menu item.

Any ideas?

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 some of the windows registry to
excel's factory defaults.

Maybe one of these will work for you.

Dale Fye wrote:

This is a relatively new problem (last couple of days). I've had no new
software or patches installed, but whenever I double click on an Excel file
to open it, Excel will open, but the workbook that I double-clicked fails to
open.

Also, from Outlook, I must save the file to disk before opening it using
Excel's File-Open menu item.

Any ideas?
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Dave Peterson

I had "Ignore other applications" checked so I could have two instances of
Excel (side-by-side) working. I could swear that until recently, that
worked, and still allowed me to double-click to open a file.

I also tried the registration stuff but that didn't do anything that
unchecking the "Ignore other apps" had not already accomplished.

Thanks to both of you.
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"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)

--- or ---

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets some of the windows registry to
excel's factory defaults.

Maybe one of these will work for you.

Dale Fye wrote:

This is a relatively new problem (last couple of days). I've had no new
software or patches installed, but whenever I double click on an Excel file
to open it, Excel will open, but the workbook that I double-clicked fails to
open.

Also, from Outlook, I must save the file to disk before opening it using
Excel's File-Open menu item.

Any ideas?
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Dave Peterson

I had the same problem start yesterday. I tried everything above and they
didn't work. I then started playing. I finally got it corrected.

Go to; tools/options/transitions
change Save Excel files as: to Microsoft Excel 97 - Excel 2003& 5.0/95
Workbook

Hope it works for you too