Excel lost association with .xls files. Must use Excel open comm
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Excel lost association with .xls files. Must use Excel open comm
Neil
ToolsOptionsGeneral uncheck "Ignore other Applications" Exit Excel and try again. If this doesn't work try to re-register Excel 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"(no quotes)OK. One more thing to try if any of the above brings no joy......... Go to StartSettingsFolderOptionsFile Types. Scroll down to MS Excel Worksheet. Then if running Win98 OS Edit select "Open" and Edit. If using WinXP OS you would scroll down to .XLS then "Advanced"OpenEdit. In Command line the path should be similar to this.... "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE\EXCEL.EXE" /e (delete the <sp/e if you want Book1 to open. You must have the double quotes. Below have "use DDE" checked and this in the DDE message box....[open("%1")] Application should read "Excel"(no quotes) Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:28:07 -0800, "Neil" wrote: Lately I found that I can't double click on an .xls file to launch Excel and open the file. I have to launch Excel then from within Excel open the .xls file. I went into file types to try and re-establish the association with Excel and .xls files without success... Any suggestions? |
Excel lost association with .xls files. Must use Excel open c
Gord, thanks for the suggestions.... Do you have any others?
Word and PowerPoint work as they should.... Neil "Gord Dibben" wrote: Neil ToolsOptionsGeneral uncheck "Ignore other Applications" Exit Excel and try again. If this doesn't work try to re-register Excel 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"(no quotes)OK. One more thing to try if any of the above brings no joy......... Go to StartSettingsFolderOptionsFile Types. Scroll down to MS Excel Worksheet. Then if running Win98 OS Edit select "Open" and Edit. If using WinXP OS you would scroll down to .XLS then "Advanced"OpenEdit. In Command line the path should be similar to this.... "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE\EXCEL.EXE" /e (delete the <sp/e if you want Book1 to open. You must have the double quotes. Below have "use DDE" checked and this in the DDE message box....[open("%1")] Application should read "Excel"(no quotes) Gord Dibben Excel MVP On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:28:07 -0800, "Neil" wrote: Lately I found that I can't double click on an .xls file to launch Excel and open the file. I have to launch Excel then from within Excel open the .xls file. I went into file types to try and re-establish the association with Excel and .xls files without success... Any suggestions? |
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