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File Opening Trouble
When I double click on an Excel file to open it, I get a series of messages
that files can not be found as follows: Personal.xls is locked€¦ C:\My.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\Documents.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\Documents.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\and.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\Settings.xls cannot be found€¦.etc. It seems to be trying to open each word in the directory path as a separate file. The separation seems to occur whenever it reaches a space or a slash in the file path. This only happens with Excel files. All other files work normally. Opening the file in Excel using the menu file/open€¦. works normally. Any ideas what could be causing this? (Windows XP SP2, Office 2003) |
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File Opening Trouble
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) (xl2003 menus) --- 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. JGreg7 wrote: When I double click on an Excel file to open it, I get a series of messages that files can not be found as follows: Personal.xls is locked€¦ C:\My.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\Documents.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\Documents.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\and.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\Settings.xls cannot be found€¦.etc. It seems to be trying to open each word in the directory path as a separate file. The separation seems to occur whenever it reaches a space or a slash in the file path. This only happens with Excel files. All other files work normally. Opening the file in Excel using the menu file/open€¦. works normally. Any ideas what could be causing this? (Windows XP SP2, Office 2003) -- Dave Peterson |
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File Opening Trouble
Easiest fix is...............
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. If no joy with that, post back and we can propose another fix. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:19:01 -0800, JGreg7 wrote: When I double click on an Excel file to open it, I get a series of messages that files can not be found as follows: Personal.xls is locked… C:\My.xls cannot be found…. C:\Documents.xls cannot be found…. C:\Documents.xls cannot be found…. C:\and.xls cannot be found…. C:\Settings.xls cannot be found….etc. It seems to be trying to open each word in the directory path as a separate file. The separation seems to occur whenever it reaches a space or a slash in the file path. This only happens with Excel files. All other files work normally. Opening the file in Excel using the menu file/open…. works normally. Any ideas what could be causing this? (Windows XP SP2, Office 2003) |
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The "unregserver / regserver" procedure worked, thank you for your response.
Excel works normally now. "Gord Dibben" wrote: Easiest fix is............... 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. If no joy with that, post back and we can propose another fix. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:19:01 -0800, JGreg7 wrote: When I double click on an Excel file to open it, I get a series of messages that files can not be found as follows: Personal.xls is locked€¦ C:\My.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\Documents.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\Documents.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\and.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\Settings.xls cannot be found€¦.etc. It seems to be trying to open each word in the directory path as a separate file. The separation seems to occur whenever it reaches a space or a slash in the file path. This only happens with Excel files. All other files work normally. Opening the file in Excel using the menu file/open€¦. works normally. Any ideas what could be causing this? (Windows XP SP2, Office 2003) |
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Can't open TSV file
I'm having this same problem. Running Excel 2003 sp2. When opening a .tsv
file I get this same series of errors. I've tried the unregister/reregister suggestion but Excel still can't open .tsv files. Any other suggestions? Jason |
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Can't open TSV file
What is a TSV file? Tab separated values? If so, change the file's
extension from tsv to txt and use Excel's import text file tool. Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Excel Product Group, 1998 - 2009 Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com (email on web site) On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:19:04 -0700, WJason wrote: I'm having this same problem. Running Excel 2003 sp2. When opening a .tsv file I get this same series of errors. I've tried the unregister/reregister suggestion but Excel still can't open .tsv files. Any other suggestions? Jason |
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My solution
Open Folder Options from the Control Panel. Click the [File Types] tab and
scroll down to the TSV entry. Click the [Advanced] button. For each action listed, highlight to select it and then click [Edit] to edit it. Scroll to the end of the "Application used to perform action" field and place double-quote (") marks around %1 at the end of the entry. I still don't understand why some workstations can open TSV files without this modification and some cannot (all running XP Pro,sp3 and MSO2003sp3); but the solution worked for me. |
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TSV file
TSV = Tab Separated Values
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File Opening Trouble
Sorry but none of these seem to work. I have posts under msg
"Open excel files" and "Can't open an excel file (have......" At this point I suspect my problem can be traced to a botched removal of Office 2007 and editing the registry per instructions from MS at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218 After removing all traces of Office 2007 and 2003 I could find I did fresh install of 2003 and have installed all updates and compatability pack available but I either can not open an .XLS file with dbl click or have to put up with three error messages. TO ALL who respond. I will try your suggestions and only make another post when something works. "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) (xl2003 menus) --- 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. JGreg7 wrote: When I double click on an Excel file to open it, I get a series of messages that files can not be found as follows: Personal.xls is locked€¦ C:\My.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\Documents.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\Documents.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\and.xls cannot be found€¦. C:\Settings.xls cannot be found€¦.etc. It seems to be trying to open each word in the directory path as a separate file. The separation seems to occur whenever it reaches a space or a slash in the file path. This only happens with Excel files. All other files work normally. Opening the file in Excel using the menu file/open€¦. works normally. Any ideas what could be causing this? (Windows XP SP2, Office 2003) -- Dave Peterson |
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