Need to change "open with" designation?
 

when I try to open my excel spreadsheets, they open in Notepad and are
scrambled. I have tried to change associated program unseccessfully.

Need to change "open with" designation?
 

I'd try letting excel change the association.

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.

EASC wrote:

when I try to open my excel spreadsheets, they open in Notepad and are
scrambled. I have tried to change associated program unseccessfully.

--

Dave Peterson

Need to change "open with" designation?
 

I tried your solution, but I get a message saying that excel/unregserver not
found. The same for regserver. I did a search for unregserver on my harddrive
and got no results.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I'd try letting excel change the association.

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.

EASC wrote:

when I try to open my excel spreadsheets, they open in Notepad and are
scrambled. I have tried to change associated program unseccessfully.

--

Dave Peterson

Need to change "open with" designation?
 

Watch your spaces.

There's a space after excel and before the slash (in both commands).

EASC wrote:

I tried your solution, but I get a message saying that excel/unregserver not
found. The same for regserver. I did a search for unregserver on my harddrive
and got no results.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I'd try letting excel change the association.

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.

EASC wrote:

when I try to open my excel spreadsheets, they open in Notepad and are
scrambled. I have tried to change associated program unseccessfully.

--

Dave Peterson


--

Dave Peterson

Need to change "open with" designation?
 

ps. These are flags that you're passing to the excel.exe program--not files to
be processed.

EASC wrote:

I tried your solution, but I get a message saying that excel/unregserver not
found. The same for regserver. I did a search for unregserver on my harddrive
and got no results.

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

I'd try letting excel change the association.

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.

EASC wrote:

when I try to open my excel spreadsheets, they open in Notepad and are
scrambled. I have tried to change associated program unseccessfully.

--

Dave Peterson


--

Dave Peterson