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Not able to open Excel files
I was instructed to add "%1" in the update files list. Now I can not open
any excel files on my desktop. I CAN open them from inside excel. The %1 will not allow itself to be deleted now! I was just trying to solve extremely slow opening of files. Please help? |
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Not able to open Excel files
Where and how did you add "%1"?
What happens when you try to open the Excel files from the desktop? -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: I was instructed to add "%1" in the update files list. Now I can not open any excel files on my desktop. I CAN open them from inside excel. The %1 will not allow itself to be deleted now! I was just trying to solve extremely slow opening of files. Please help? |
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start...control panel....folder options....file types...xls....advanced...open.....edit....and then told to add "%1" to the end of the application line.... now...the files on the desktop which were opening slow....will not open at all..... "name not recognized" excel files from email will not open....but files I already had....do open from within excel.... things are deteriorating pretty fast since I did this.... It will not let me just eliminate the %1 now..... "Sheeloo" wrote: Where and how did you add "%1"? What happens when you try to open the Excel files from the desktop? -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: I was instructed to add "%1" in the update files list. Now I can not open any excel files on my desktop. I CAN open them from inside excel. The %1 will not allow itself to be deleted now! I was just trying to solve extremely slow opening of files. Please help? |
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http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/StartupProblems.asp
look at the part called "Files will not open from explorer" -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "Bill" wrote in message ... start...control panel....folder options....file types...xls....advanced...open.....edit....and then told to add "%1" to the end of the application line.... now...the files on the desktop which were opening slow....will not open at all..... "name not recognized" excel files from email will not open....but files I already had....do open from within excel.... things are deteriorating pretty fast since I did this.... It will not let me just eliminate the %1 now..... "Sheeloo" wrote: Where and how did you add "%1"? What happens when you try to open the Excel files from the desktop? -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: I was instructed to add "%1" in the update files list. Now I can not open any excel files on my desktop. I CAN open them from inside excel. The %1 will not allow itself to be deleted now! I was just trying to solve extremely slow opening of files. Please help? |
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Understood.
You should be able to edit the setting again. Try deleting that option and then creating again... Another things you can try is to SHIFT-RIGHT CLICK on any Excel file on the desktop Choose 'Open With|Choose Program' and choose Excel from the programs.. Click on 'Always use the selected...' -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: start...control panel....folder options....file types...xls....advanced...open.....edit....and then told to add "%1" to the end of the application line.... now...the files on the desktop which were opening slow....will not open at all..... "name not recognized" excel files from email will not open....but files I already had....do open from within excel.... things are deteriorating pretty fast since I did this.... It will not let me just eliminate the %1 now..... "Sheeloo" wrote: Where and how did you add "%1"? What happens when you try to open the Excel files from the desktop? -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: I was instructed to add "%1" in the update files list. Now I can not open any excel files on my desktop. I CAN open them from inside excel. The %1 will not allow itself to be deleted now! I was just trying to solve extremely slow opening of files. Please help? |
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Not able to open Excel files
Thank you. I tried the "open with" option, and it is saying "the file can
not be found" for all excel files I try. I do not know what you mean by "deleting that option" I erase it...hit okay....and it just goes back to previous setting... I have really messed up... "Sheeloo" wrote: Understood. You should be able to edit the setting again. Try deleting that option and then creating again... Another things you can try is to SHIFT-RIGHT CLICK on any Excel file on the desktop Choose 'Open With|Choose Program' and choose Excel from the programs.. Click on 'Always use the selected...' -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: start...control panel....folder options....file types...xls....advanced...open.....edit....and then told to add "%1" to the end of the application line.... now...the files on the desktop which were opening slow....will not open at all..... "name not recognized" excel files from email will not open....but files I already had....do open from within excel.... things are deteriorating pretty fast since I did this.... It will not let me just eliminate the %1 now..... "Sheeloo" wrote: Where and how did you add "%1"? What happens when you try to open the Excel files from the desktop? -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: I was instructed to add "%1" in the update files list. Now I can not open any excel files on my desktop. I CAN open them from inside excel. The %1 will not allow itself to be deleted now! I was just trying to solve extremely slow opening of files. Please help? |
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Thank you. I just tried this. The moment I hit enter for the run
command...it immediately told me "can not find...." "Peo Sjoblom" wrote: http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/StartupProblems.asp look at the part called "Files will not open from explorer" -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "Bill" wrote in message ... start...control panel....folder options....file types...xls....advanced...open.....edit....and then told to add "%1" to the end of the application line.... now...the files on the desktop which were opening slow....will not open at all..... "name not recognized" excel files from email will not open....but files I already had....do open from within excel.... things are deteriorating pretty fast since I did this.... It will not let me just eliminate the %1 now..... "Sheeloo" wrote: Where and how did you add "%1"? What happens when you try to open the Excel files from the desktop? -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: I was instructed to add "%1" in the update files list. Now I can not open any excel files on my desktop. I CAN open them from inside excel. The %1 will not allow itself to be deleted now! I was just trying to solve extremely slow opening of files. Please help? |
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My laptop has the following in 'Application used...' box "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e and this in 'DDE message ' [open("%1")] I am surprised that you are not able to change the settings... How did you change it earlier? Did you login as another user? What I meant was deleting the 'Open' entry or XLS entry altogether and creating it again but that may not work since you are not able to edit it even... You probably need to log in as administrator and then update the setting. -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: Thank you. I tried the "open with" option, and it is saying "the file can not be found" for all excel files I try. I do not know what you mean by "deleting that option" I erase it...hit okay....and it just goes back to previous setting... I have really messed up... "Sheeloo" wrote: Understood. You should be able to edit the setting again. Try deleting that option and then creating again... Another things you can try is to SHIFT-RIGHT CLICK on any Excel file on the desktop Choose 'Open With|Choose Program' and choose Excel from the programs.. Click on 'Always use the selected...' -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: start...control panel....folder options....file types...xls....advanced...open.....edit....and then told to add "%1" to the end of the application line.... now...the files on the desktop which were opening slow....will not open at all..... "name not recognized" excel files from email will not open....but files I already had....do open from within excel.... things are deteriorating pretty fast since I did this.... It will not let me just eliminate the %1 now..... "Sheeloo" wrote: Where and how did you add "%1"? What happens when you try to open the Excel files from the desktop? -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: I was instructed to add "%1" in the update files list. Now I can not open any excel files on my desktop. I CAN open them from inside excel. The %1 will not allow itself to be deleted now! I was just trying to solve extremely slow opening of files. Please help? |
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Not able to open Excel files
I just checked on my laptop as well. I have exactly what you have. The
problem seems to be the "%1" (no quotes now) one space after the /e I can not get the %1 to go away no matter what I do. This seems to be the problem. Does anyone have an idea how to get rid of this? I am the admin...it's my home computer. I have not changed how I logged in or anything like that.... "Sheeloo" wrote: My laptop has the following in 'Application used...' box "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e and this in 'DDE message ' [open("%1")] I am surprised that you are not able to change the settings... How did you change it earlier? Did you login as another user? What I meant was deleting the 'Open' entry or XLS entry altogether and creating it again but that may not work since you are not able to edit it even... You probably need to log in as administrator and then update the setting. -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: Thank you. I tried the "open with" option, and it is saying "the file can not be found" for all excel files I try. I do not know what you mean by "deleting that option" I erase it...hit okay....and it just goes back to previous setting... I have really messed up... "Sheeloo" wrote: Understood. You should be able to edit the setting again. Try deleting that option and then creating again... Another things you can try is to SHIFT-RIGHT CLICK on any Excel file on the desktop Choose 'Open With|Choose Program' and choose Excel from the programs.. Click on 'Always use the selected...' -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: start...control panel....folder options....file types...xls....advanced...open.....edit....and then told to add "%1" to the end of the application line.... now...the files on the desktop which were opening slow....will not open at all..... "name not recognized" excel files from email will not open....but files I already had....do open from within excel.... things are deteriorating pretty fast since I did this.... It will not let me just eliminate the %1 now..... "Sheeloo" wrote: Where and how did you add "%1"? What happens when you try to open the Excel files from the desktop? -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: I was instructed to add "%1" in the update files list. Now I can not open any excel files on my desktop. I CAN open them from inside excel. The %1 will not allow itself to be deleted now! I was just trying to solve extremely slow opening of files. Please help? |
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You obviously have to replace the path with the path you are using on your
PC, that path reflected on the website was just an example. Find your excel. exe and look up the path and replace this "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Excel.exe" /Regserver For instance I use Office 2003 and my version would look like "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\Excel.exe" /Regserver note the quotations and also make sure Excel is not running when you do this I usually use this first "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\Excel.exe" /Unregserver then after pressing enter and when the hour glass is closed I immediately do "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\Excel.exe" /Regserver this can also be important: start Excel go to toolsoptionsgeneral and clear the checkmark if there is one in "Ignore other applications", -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "Bill" wrote in message ... Thank you. I just tried this. The moment I hit enter for the run command...it immediately told me "can not find...." "Peo Sjoblom" wrote: http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/StartupProblems.asp look at the part called "Files will not open from explorer" -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "Bill" wrote in message ... start...control panel....folder options....file types...xls....advanced...open.....edit....and then told to add "%1" to the end of the application line.... now...the files on the desktop which were opening slow....will not open at all..... "name not recognized" excel files from email will not open....but files I already had....do open from within excel.... things are deteriorating pretty fast since I did this.... It will not let me just eliminate the %1 now..... "Sheeloo" wrote: Where and how did you add "%1"? What happens when you try to open the Excel files from the desktop? -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: I was instructed to add "%1" in the update files list. Now I can not open any excel files on my desktop. I CAN open them from inside excel. The %1 will not allow itself to be deleted now! I was just trying to solve extremely slow opening of files. Please help? |
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Bill,
I added %1 and then could not delete it... So I could replicate the problem you had... This is what I did to solve it... 1. Delete the XLS type from the Folder Options|Type list. (I guess this is not really required) 2. Followed Peo's suggestion and executed the following from Start|Run "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Excel.exe" /Regserver (I had to change the path from the one given in the link provided by Peo) This solved my problem... This will -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: I just checked on my laptop as well. I have exactly what you have. The problem seems to be the "%1" (no quotes now) one space after the /e I can not get the %1 to go away no matter what I do. This seems to be the problem. Does anyone have an idea how to get rid of this? I am the admin...it's my home computer. I have not changed how I logged in or anything like that.... "Sheeloo" wrote: My laptop has the following in 'Application used...' box "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e and this in 'DDE message ' [open("%1")] I am surprised that you are not able to change the settings... How did you change it earlier? Did you login as another user? What I meant was deleting the 'Open' entry or XLS entry altogether and creating it again but that may not work since you are not able to edit it even... You probably need to log in as administrator and then update the setting. -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: Thank you. I tried the "open with" option, and it is saying "the file can not be found" for all excel files I try. I do not know what you mean by "deleting that option" I erase it...hit okay....and it just goes back to previous setting... I have really messed up... "Sheeloo" wrote: Understood. You should be able to edit the setting again. Try deleting that option and then creating again... Another things you can try is to SHIFT-RIGHT CLICK on any Excel file on the desktop Choose 'Open With|Choose Program' and choose Excel from the programs.. Click on 'Always use the selected...' -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: start...control panel....folder options....file types...xls....advanced...open.....edit....and then told to add "%1" to the end of the application line.... now...the files on the desktop which were opening slow....will not open at all..... "name not recognized" excel files from email will not open....but files I already had....do open from within excel.... things are deteriorating pretty fast since I did this.... It will not let me just eliminate the %1 now..... "Sheeloo" wrote: Where and how did you add "%1"? What happens when you try to open the Excel files from the desktop? -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: I was instructed to add "%1" in the update files list. Now I can not open any excel files on my desktop. I CAN open them from inside excel. The %1 will not allow itself to be deleted now! I was just trying to solve extremely slow opening of files. Please help? |
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Thank you SO much!!! It works! I have NO idea how I screwed this all up,
but it now works. I would have NEVER solved this on my own. I can not thank you enough for your patience, and help! Thank you! - bill "Sheeloo" wrote: Bill, I added %1 and then could not delete it... So I could replicate the problem you had... This is what I did to solve it... 1. Delete the XLS type from the Folder Options|Type list. (I guess this is not really required) 2. Followed Peo's suggestion and executed the following from Start|Run "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\Excel.exe" /Regserver (I had to change the path from the one given in the link provided by Peo) This solved my problem... This will -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: I just checked on my laptop as well. I have exactly what you have. The problem seems to be the "%1" (no quotes now) one space after the /e I can not get the %1 to go away no matter what I do. This seems to be the problem. Does anyone have an idea how to get rid of this? I am the admin...it's my home computer. I have not changed how I logged in or anything like that.... "Sheeloo" wrote: My laptop has the following in 'Application used...' box "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e and this in 'DDE message ' [open("%1")] I am surprised that you are not able to change the settings... How did you change it earlier? Did you login as another user? What I meant was deleting the 'Open' entry or XLS entry altogether and creating it again but that may not work since you are not able to edit it even... You probably need to log in as administrator and then update the setting. -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: Thank you. I tried the "open with" option, and it is saying "the file can not be found" for all excel files I try. I do not know what you mean by "deleting that option" I erase it...hit okay....and it just goes back to previous setting... I have really messed up... "Sheeloo" wrote: Understood. You should be able to edit the setting again. Try deleting that option and then creating again... Another things you can try is to SHIFT-RIGHT CLICK on any Excel file on the desktop Choose 'Open With|Choose Program' and choose Excel from the programs.. Click on 'Always use the selected...' -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: start...control panel....folder options....file types...xls....advanced...open.....edit....and then told to add "%1" to the end of the application line.... now...the files on the desktop which were opening slow....will not open at all..... "name not recognized" excel files from email will not open....but files I already had....do open from within excel.... things are deteriorating pretty fast since I did this.... It will not let me just eliminate the %1 now..... "Sheeloo" wrote: Where and how did you add "%1"? What happens when you try to open the Excel files from the desktop? -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: I was instructed to add "%1" in the update files list. Now I can not open any excel files on my desktop. I CAN open them from inside excel. The %1 will not allow itself to be deleted now! I was just trying to solve extremely slow opening of files. Please help? |
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Thank you SO much!!! It works! I have NO idea how I screwed this all up,
but it now works. I would have NEVER solved this on my own. I can not thank you enough for your patience, and help! Thank you! - bill "Peo Sjoblom" wrote: You obviously have to replace the path with the path you are using on your PC, that path reflected on the website was just an example. Find your excel. exe and look up the path and replace this "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Excel.exe" /Regserver For instance I use Office 2003 and my version would look like "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\Excel.exe" /Regserver note the quotations and also make sure Excel is not running when you do this I usually use this first "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\Excel.exe" /Unregserver then after pressing enter and when the hour glass is closed I immediately do "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\Excel.exe" /Regserver this can also be important: start Excel go to toolsoptionsgeneral and clear the checkmark if there is one in "Ignore other applications", -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "Bill" wrote in message ... Thank you. I just tried this. The moment I hit enter for the run command...it immediately told me "can not find...." "Peo Sjoblom" wrote: http://www.jkp-ads.com/Articles/StartupProblems.asp look at the part called "Files will not open from explorer" -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "Bill" wrote in message ... start...control panel....folder options....file types...xls....advanced...open.....edit....and then told to add "%1" to the end of the application line.... now...the files on the desktop which were opening slow....will not open at all..... "name not recognized" excel files from email will not open....but files I already had....do open from within excel.... things are deteriorating pretty fast since I did this.... It will not let me just eliminate the %1 now..... "Sheeloo" wrote: Where and how did you add "%1"? What happens when you try to open the Excel files from the desktop? -- Always provide your feedback so that others know whether the solution worked or problem still persists ... "Bill" wrote: I was instructed to add "%1" in the update files list. Now I can not open any excel files on my desktop. I CAN open them from inside excel. The %1 will not allow itself to be deleted now! I was just trying to solve extremely slow opening of files. Please help? |
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