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Cannot open Excel files from Explorer or email
For some reason when I double-click on an Excel file in Windows Explorer (or
try to open an emailed file directly from the email) it no longer opens. This suddenly started happening - or not happening - last week and I have no idea why. I can still open from inside Excel with File, Open. Any ideas on how I can fix this? |
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Cannot open Excel files from Explorer or email
Here is the fix
1) right click Start button 2) Select Explorer 3) menu Tools - Folder Options 4) File Types 5) XLS - Select Line 6) Advance 7) Set Default then press OK If that doesn't work the follow 1 to 5 and do the following 6) Change 7) Select Microsoft Excel and press OK "Smallweed" wrote: For some reason when I double-click on an Excel file in Windows Explorer (or try to open an emailed file directly from the email) it no longer opens. This suddenly started happening - or not happening - last week and I have no idea why. I can still open from inside Excel with File, Open. Any ideas on how I can fix this? |
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Cannot open Excel files from Explorer or email
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. Smallweed wrote: For some reason when I double-click on an Excel file in Windows Explorer (or try to open an emailed file directly from the email) it no longer opens. This suddenly started happening - or not happening - last week and I have no idea why. I can still open from inside Excel with File, Open. Any ideas on how I can fix this? -- Dave Peterson |
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Cannot open Excel files from Explorer or email
Thanks to both - the second part of Joel's solution worked (for some reason I
have 2 Excels on the list and choosing the second sorted it). "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. Smallweed wrote: For some reason when I double-click on an Excel file in Windows Explorer (or try to open an emailed file directly from the email) it no longer opens. This suddenly started happening - or not happening - last week and I have no idea why. I can still open from inside Excel with File, Open. Any ideas on how I can fix this? -- Dave Peterson |
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