excel will not open a file with a double clik on a icon
 

Hi something happened yesterday with my excel 2003 all of a sudden it stoped
opening a file by double clicking on a excel icon.
I have read the other post on this subject and i am unable to follow it
through somewhere i get lost and it will not work for me.

I reformatted my hardrive and installed office again and all was well til i
got the latest updates and it is just the same again.

So anybody got anyother ideas.

excel will not open a file with a double clik on a icon
 

What happens when you try double clicking on the file?

Are you sure the workbook isn't opened?

Maybe it's just off the screen.
Window|arrange|tiled
may show it to you.

If it didn't help....


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.

Maybe one of these will work for your clients.

sam wrote:

Hi something happened yesterday with my excel 2003 all of a sudden it stoped
opening a file by double clicking on a excel icon.
I have read the other post on this subject and i am unable to follow it
through somewhere i get lost and it will not work for me.

I reformatted my hardrive and installed office again and all was well til i
got the latest updates and it is just the same again.

So anybody got anyother ideas.

--

Dave Peterson