I have Office 2002 and can not get the Excel files to open up without opening
Excel first. I should be able to double click the file and it opens up Excel
and the file. It does that in all the other office applications but this
one. It used to do that and now it has been changed or I changed something
and don't know what it is to get it back. Can someone help me?

Following should be all you need to fix the problem; unsure as to why it
ocurred in the first place though:

1) Open a folder on your PC. Almost any will do.
2) Select 'Folder Options' from the 'Tools' menu.
3) Click the 'File Types' tab.
4) Scroll the list of currently recorded file types and see if 'XLS' is an
entry.

if it is...

a) Click on it and select 'Change...'
b) Scroll down through the displayed list of applications and select
'Microsoft Office Excel'.
c) Tick the 'Always use this program to open these types of files' option.
d) Click the OK button.

if it isn't...
i) Click 'New'
ii) Enter 'XLS'
iii) Click 'OK'
iv) now that xls is in the list follow steps a) - d) above.

5) Click 'Close'

You might need to do this for the XLB extension too.
There are other types of extensions aswell, but they are associated to
different programs (i.e. Excel associated apps).

"May the Word be with you."

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"DP" wrote:

I have Office 2002 and can not get the Excel files to open up without opening
Excel first. I should be able to double click the file and it opens up Excel
and the file. It does that in all the other office applications but this
one. It used to do that and now it has been changed or I changed something
and don't know what it is to get it back. Can someone help me?

Sometimes one of these works:

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 the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.

DP wrote:

I have Office 2002 and can not get the Excel files to open up without opening
Excel first. I should be able to double click the file and it opens up Excel
and the file. It does that in all the other office applications but this
one. It used to do that and now it has been changed or I changed something
and don't know what it is to get it back. Can someone help me?

--

Dave Peterson

Thanks Dave..... I had the same issue and the tools option worked!!!

Thanks for the tip!!!!!

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Sometimes one of these works:

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 the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.

DP wrote:

I have Office 2002 and can not get the Excel files to open up without opening
Excel first. I should be able to double click the file and it opens up Excel
and the file. It does that in all the other office applications but this
one. It used to do that and now it has been changed or I changed something
and don't know what it is to get it back. Can someone help me?

--

Dave Peterson