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Getting a gray screen
I am trying to open previous spreadsheets in Excel as well as a new one, all
i am getting is a gray screen. What can i do, I have tried the arrange button and it is not offered. -- Jennifer Mige |
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Getting a gray screen
And this happens with all workbooks when you double click on them in windows
explorer? 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. Jenn wrote: I am trying to open previous spreadsheets in Excel as well as a new one, all i am getting is a gray screen. What can i do, I have tried the arrange button and it is not offered. -- Jennifer Mige -- Dave Peterson |
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Getting a gray screen
i tried that and when i do i get an error message telling me that it could
not be found, not just so i can make sure i am doing it right, i closed excel, went to start then to run and typed in excel / unregserver, right?? -- Jennifer Mige "Dave Peterson" wrote: And this happens with all workbooks when you double click on them in windows explorer? 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. Jenn wrote: I am trying to open previous spreadsheets in Excel as well as a new one, all i am getting is a gray screen. What can i do, I have tried the arrange button and it is not offered. -- Jennifer Mige -- Dave Peterson |
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Getting a gray screen
After you run Excel with the /unregserver switch, you must run it
again with the /regserver switch. -- Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP - Excel Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com "Jenn" wrote in message ... i tried that and when i do i get an error message telling me that it could not be found, not just so i can make sure i am doing it right, i closed excel, went to start then to run and typed in excel / unregserver, right?? -- Jennifer Mige "Dave Peterson" wrote: And this happens with all workbooks when you double click on them in windows explorer? 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. Jenn wrote: I am trying to open previous spreadsheets in Excel as well as a new one, all i am getting is a gray screen. What can i do, I have tried the arrange button and it is not offered. -- Jennifer Mige -- Dave Peterson |
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Getting a gray screen
i did that and i get the same error message with both instances. I am so
sorry, i am just getting really frustrated, we have been trying to figure this out for 2 weeks. -- Jennifer Mige "Chip Pearson" wrote: After you run Excel with the /unregserver switch, you must run it again with the /regserver switch. -- Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP - Excel Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com "Jenn" wrote in message ... i tried that and when i do i get an error message telling me that it could not be found, not just so i can make sure i am doing it right, i closed excel, went to start then to run and typed in excel / unregserver, right?? -- Jennifer Mige "Dave Peterson" wrote: And this happens with all workbooks when you double click on them in windows explorer? 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. Jenn wrote: I am trying to open previous spreadsheets in Excel as well as a new one, all i am getting is a gray screen. What can i do, I have tried the arrange button and it is not offered. -- Jennifer Mige -- Dave Peterson |
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Getting a gray screen
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excel /unregserver then Windows Start Button|Run excel /regserver Jenn wrote: i did that and i get the same error message with both instances. I am so sorry, i am just getting really frustrated, we have been trying to figure this out for 2 weeks. -- Jennifer Mige "Chip Pearson" wrote: After you run Excel with the /unregserver switch, you must run it again with the /regserver switch. -- Cordially, Chip Pearson Microsoft MVP - Excel Pearson Software Consulting, LLC www.cpearson.com "Jenn" wrote in message ... i tried that and when i do i get an error message telling me that it could not be found, not just so i can make sure i am doing it right, i closed excel, went to start then to run and typed in excel / unregserver, right?? -- Jennifer Mige "Dave Peterson" wrote: And this happens with all workbooks when you double click on them in windows explorer? 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. Jenn wrote: I am trying to open previous spreadsheets in Excel as well as a new one, all i am getting is a gray screen. What can i do, I have tried the arrange button and it is not offered. -- Jennifer Mige -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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