I have a file afew folders deep in my c: drive named "Used for May
BirthdaysJSmith" without the parenthesis. When I double-click to open it,
Excel says it can't find the file. This happens whether I try to open it from
within Excel or just double-click it to lunch Excel. If I move the same file
to the Desktop, it opens fine with no errors.

Also, If I leave the file where I was getting errors but just remove the
JSmith from the end of the file name, it opens fine from there too.

I have all Office and WinXP updates. Any ideas on what's going on??

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.

Joe Man wrote:

I have a file afew folders deep in my c: drive named "Used for May
BirthdaysJSmith" without the parenthesis. When I double-click to open it,
Excel says it can't find the file. This happens whether I try to open it from
within Excel or just double-click it to lunch Excel. If I move the same file
to the Desktop, it opens fine with no errors.

Also, If I leave the file where I was getting errors but just remove the
JSmith from the end of the file name, it opens fine from there too.

I have all Office and WinXP updates. Any ideas on what's going on??

--

Dave Peterson

I figured out what the problem was. The filepath was too long. It was several
folders deep and it exceeded the maximum length. I didn't even know there was
a maximum.

"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.

Joe Man wrote:

I have a file afew folders deep in my c: drive named "Used for May
BirthdaysJSmith" without the parenthesis. When I double-click to open it,
Excel says it can't find the file. This happens whether I try to open it from
within Excel or just double-click it to lunch Excel. If I move the same file
to the Desktop, it opens fine with no errors.

Also, If I leave the file where I was getting errors but just remove the
JSmith from the end of the file name, it opens fine from there too.

I have all Office and WinXP updates. Any ideas on what's going on??

--

Dave Peterson