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When I click on *.xls file, MS Excell open but file not. WhatToDo
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When I click on *.xls file, MS Excell open but file not. WhatToDo
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) --- 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. Michael wrote: -- Dave Peterson |
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When I click on *.xls file, MS Excell open but file not. WhatT
If the user is using two monitors, heres another possible cause:
Several of my workbooks would either fail to open (just an empty grey window appeared) or would seem to vanish when I clicked restore down. Leaping to the conclusion that this was a corrupted workbook, I searched the user community and found a Registry Key repair that seemed to work, but sometimes the errant workbook would open once, then fail to open thereafter (grey window again). This was wierd; how could fixing the registry key, temporarily repair a couple of individual workbooks? Were they somehow badly corrupted, needing repair? Then I discovered several dumb, compounded errors I was making that were really the cause of the problem: I was working with two monitors, and had Excel's window stretched across both screens with the errant workbook positioned in the right screen. Closing Excel, then re-launching Excel, caused Excel to open by default full screen left monitor only, so the errant workbook which seemed to fail to open, was actually opening, but out of view, off-screen to the right, leaving the impression that there was something wrong with the workbook. Compounding my error was the fact that I sometimes inadvertently would hit restore down when I really meant to minimize a workbook. When you double click on the errant workbook to launch Excel, Excel opens by default to full left screen only, and since I had mistakenly hit restore down when I really meant to minimize the last time, I was now seeing an empty grey window in the left monitor, and there was no minimized box in the lower left corner, again misleading myself into thinking there must be something wrong with the worksheet. Hope this helps somebody... "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) --- 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. Michael wrote: -- Dave Peterson |
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