Hi

Someone else posted on this last year, but no replies.

This error message comes up if I try to open an Excel file from
Explorer, rather than from Excel itself (File/Open). I'm using Excel
2000 (9.0.6926 SP3).

If I get rid of the error message by clicking OK, it reappears a couple
of times, then I get Excel shown, showing the name of the file in the
window caption bar - also, the contents of A1 are shown in the
whatdjewcallit editing toolbar. But the spreadsheet is completely
blank, and Excel doesn't respond to any mouse or keyboard input.

Opening it through Excel (File/Open) is fine. Also, double-clicking
from Explorer works fine, AS LONG AS there's an instance of Excel
already running (it opens in that instance).

Saving the file again, or making a nonsense change to a cell and then
saving it, makes no difference.

This is a file created from Access VBA through the Excel 9.0 COM
objects. Other files created in this way don't have this problem.
There's no workaround, Access has to create this file in this way; and
there's nothing at all in the MS KB.

Anyone have any ideas?