Have been unable to open my excel files via the shortcut icons and also when
I save a file to CD then I am unable to open the file from CD. CD excel files
will open when opened on another computer. I want to uninstall excel then
reinstall but don't want to take a chance on loosing my excel files. Help
would be appreciated.

You won't lose your files


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom



"Ken B" wrote in message
...
Have been unable to open my excel files via the shortcut icons and also
when
I save a file to CD then I am unable to open the file from CD. CD excel
files
will open when opened on another computer. I want to uninstall excel then
reinstall but don't want to take a chance on loosing my excel files. Help
would be appreciated.

1. Are you able to open Excel? If yes then can you open your files from
File-Open option? If yes then your shortcut may be bad... Find the Excel.exe
in Program Files-MS office folder and create a new shortcut.

2. If the above does not work then before uninstalling try the repair option
by running setup from your Excel installation CD/DVD. It might fix your
problem.

Data files will NOT be deleted or damaged by reinstalling/repairing EXCEL.

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

You won't lose your files


--


Regards,


Peo Sjoblom



"Ken B" wrote in message
...
Have been unable to open my excel files via the shortcut icons and also
when
I save a file to CD then I am unable to open the file from CD. CD excel
files
will open when opened on another computer. I want to uninstall excel then
reinstall but don't want to take a chance on loosing my excel files. Help
would be appreciated.

Peo is correct. You won't lose your files but what makes you think that a
re-install would change things?

First of all, saving to or opening from a CD is an iffy operation at best.

You should save to HDD then copy to CD.

Same when opening.......copy to HDD then open.

The shortcuts not opening Excel workbooks could simply be a file association
problem.

You could run a detect and repair from Help or

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 Mon, 8 Sep 2008 19:20:27 -0700, Ken B
wrote:

Have been unable to open my excel files via the shortcut icons and also when
I save a file to CD then I am unable to open the file from CD. CD excel files
will open when opened on another computer. I want to uninstall excel then
reinstall but don't want to take a chance on loosing my excel files. Help
would be appreciated.