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why would a excel file sent with data open as grey screen
Sent a excel file (.xls) containing data via email. Other contact opened
file sent and stated it opens as a grey screen, contains no data. This file is updated and sent on a weekly basis, and this week he cannot successfully open file. |
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why would a excel file sent with data open as grey screen
Maybe the recipient can try this after opening the attachment (and seeing the
grey screen): File|Print preview If he can see stuff that would be printed, it sounds like the worksheet window is just not visible in the application window. In xl2003, I'd use: Window|arrange|tiled and resize the way I like. ============= The next thing I'd try is to save the attachment to my local harddrive and open it from there. If that works ok, then maybe this would fix the problem so that the attachment could be opened directly in the email: (saved from a previous post) 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. Lynne wrote: Sent a excel file (.xls) containing data via email. Other contact opened file sent and stated it opens as a grey screen, contains no data. This file is updated and sent on a weekly basis, and this week he cannot successfully open file. -- Dave Peterson |
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