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Opening an Excel worksheet by double-clicking the filename
When one of my teachers, running Windows XP Professional and Office 2003,
double clicks an Excel spreadsheet file, it opens Excel but not the file. She has to go to File, Open, and choose the file. It just started doing this, and she believes she hasn't changed anything. Thanks for any help, Mike |
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Opening an Excel worksheet by double-clicking the filename
What I would do is check to make sure your File Registration information is
correct. File Registration is what tells the OS which application opens which files based on their file extension. Open up Windows Explorer, choose TOOLS, FOLDER OPTIONS, FILE TYPES. I would compare the settings for DOC files (assuming you have Word on this computer too) to the XLS files settings to make sure they are similar. You may find something there that doesn't look right. But I wouldn't "play around" in there unless you know what you're doing. I just did a Google search on "double-click file opens excel but not document" and came up with this that sounds like I was on the right track: http://blog.edogg.com/index.php?/arc...le-doesnt.html "Mike Reemsnyder" wrote: When one of my teachers, running Windows XP Professional and Office 2003, double clicks an Excel spreadsheet file, it opens Excel but not the file. She has to go to File, Open, and choose the file. It just started doing this, and she believes she hasn't changed anything. Thanks for any help, Mike |
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Opening an Excel worksheet by double-clicking the filename
Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on
the file in windows explorer: Tools|Options|General|Uncheck "Ignore other applications" (xl2003 menus) or Office Button|Excel Options|Advanced|General|Uncheck "Ignore other applications" (xl2007) --- 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. Mike Reemsnyder wrote: When one of my teachers, running Windows XP Professional and Office 2003, double clicks an Excel spreadsheet file, it opens Excel but not the file. She has to go to File, Open, and choose the file. It just started doing this, and she believes she hasn't changed anything. Thanks for any help, Mike -- Dave Peterson |
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Opening an Excel worksheet by double-clicking the filename
Try the usual fix for this.
ToolsOptionsGeneral Uncheck "Ignore Other Applications etc." In 2007 that would be ButtonExcel OptionsAdvancedGeneral 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 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:15:04 -0700, Mike Reemsnyder wrote: When one of my teachers, running Windows XP Professional and Office 2003, double clicks an Excel spreadsheet file, it opens Excel but not the file. She has to go to File, Open, and choose the file. It just started doing this, and she believes she hasn't changed anything. Thanks for any help, Mike |
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