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Gray Screen when opening Desktop
Excel 2002 SP3, Windows XP
The user has a couple dozen Excel files residing on his desktop. If he double clicks on any of them from the desktop, they open with a gray screen. The Window menu is deactivated except for Hide. I hide then unhide but still don't get anything. I have tried Window|Arrange|Tiles but still don't get anything. I've run Detect and Repair with no change. If the user actually opens Excel, goes to the Desktop, then opens any of those Excel documents, they open fine. Any ideas why we can't open files directly from the Desktop? TIA! -- Brenda |
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Gray Screen when opening Desktop
Try the usual fix for this.
ToolsOptionsGeneral Uncheck "Ignore Other Applications" If no joy with that................ 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(quotes required)OK. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:05:00 -0700, Brenda from Michigan wrote: Excel 2002 SP3, Windows XP The user has a couple dozen Excel files residing on his desktop. If he double clicks on any of them from the desktop, they open with a gray screen. The Window menu is deactivated except for Hide. I hide then unhide but still don't get anything. I have tried Window|Arrange|Tiles but still don't get anything. I've run Detect and Repair with no change. If the user actually opens Excel, goes to the Desktop, then opens any of those Excel documents, they open fine. Any ideas why we can't open files directly from the Desktop? TIA! |
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Gray Screen when opening Desktop
The ignore apps fixed the problem. Thank you.
-- Brenda "Gord Dibben" wrote: Try the usual fix for this. ToolsOptionsGeneral Uncheck "Ignore Other Applications" If no joy with that................ 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(quotes required)OK. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:05:00 -0700, Brenda from Michigan wrote: Excel 2002 SP3, Windows XP The user has a couple dozen Excel files residing on his desktop. If he double clicks on any of them from the desktop, they open with a gray screen. The Window menu is deactivated except for Hide. I hide then unhide but still don't get anything. I have tried Window|Arrange|Tiles but still don't get anything. I've run Detect and Repair with no change. If the user actually opens Excel, goes to the Desktop, then opens any of those Excel documents, they open fine. Any ideas why we can't open files directly from the Desktop? TIA! |
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Gray Screen when opening Desktop
1) StartRun "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)OK.
2) StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK. Will this work if the gray screen condition occurs only sporadically????? "Gord Dibben" wrote: Try the usual fix for this. ToolsOptionsGeneral Uncheck "Ignore Other Applications" If no joy with that................ 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(quotes required)OK. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:05:00 -0700, Brenda from Michigan wrote: Excel 2002 SP3, Windows XP The user has a couple dozen Excel files residing on his desktop. If he double clicks on any of them from the desktop, they open with a gray screen. The Window menu is deactivated except for Hide. I hide then unhide but still don't get anything. I have tried Window|Arrange|Tiles but still don't get anything. I've run Detect and Repair with no change. If the user actually opens Excel, goes to the Desktop, then opens any of those Excel documents, they open fine. Any ideas why we can't open files directly from the Desktop? TIA! |
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Gray Screen when opening Desktop
I would think so but I don't know why the "sporadically" occurs.
Try it, it can't hurt. Gord On Thu, 22 May 2008 09:21:01 -0700, Dave in Dallas wrote: 1) StartRun "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)OK. 2) StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK. Will this work if the gray screen condition occurs only sporadically????? "Gord Dibben" wrote: Try the usual fix for this. ToolsOptionsGeneral Uncheck "Ignore Other Applications" If no joy with that................ 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(quotes required)OK. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:05:00 -0700, Brenda from Michigan wrote: Excel 2002 SP3, Windows XP The user has a couple dozen Excel files residing on his desktop. If he double clicks on any of them from the desktop, they open with a gray screen. The Window menu is deactivated except for Hide. I hide then unhide but still don't get anything. I have tried Window|Arrange|Tiles but still don't get anything. I've run Detect and Repair with no change. If the user actually opens Excel, goes to the Desktop, then opens any of those Excel documents, they open fine. Any ideas why we can't open files directly from the Desktop? TIA! |
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