No program is registered to open this file
 

Hopefully someone can help me.

I've seen this type of error discussed earlier but never resolved.
Not really a VBA issue but I came across it while coding up a
project.....dealing with hyperlinks.

In excel 2007 I create hyperlinks to video files.. .wmv files
specifically. When I click on the link it starts up the application
and plays the .wmv file. (This excel file is basically a catalog
of video clips that I can sort and select to play)

I try to use this excel file on another computer running an older
version of excel. When I click on the hyperlink I get the "No
program is registered to open this file" error. The interesting
thing is that if I go into Explorer and click on the file it starts up
the app and plays it. Going into Explorer/Options...etc shows that
the file extension is indeed mapped to the application that plays
it. Now, if I create a hyperlink to other types of files (like
a .xls or jpg file) the hyperlink works fine in Excel.

So...seems that Windows/Explorer sees the .wmv file type registration
but Excel does not. Can anyone help me out here....how can I get
Excel to recognize this particular file association that Explorer
already does.

Thanks
Chuck

No program is registered to open this file
 

hi Chuck,

look on this link, it may be the same problem
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/exc...-t3722209.html

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isabelle




Le 2011-09-08 16:30, chuckm a écrit :
Hopefully someone can help me.

I've seen this type of error discussed earlier but never resolved.
Not really a VBA issue but I came across it while coding up a
project.....dealing with hyperlinks.

In excel 2007 I create hyperlinks to video files.. .wmv files
specifically. When I click on the link it starts up the application
and plays the .wmv file. (This excel file is basically a catalog
of video clips that I can sort and select to play)

I try to use this excel file on another computer running an older
version of excel. When I click on the hyperlink I get the "No
program is registered to open this file" error. The interesting
thing is that if I go into Explorer and click on the file it starts up
the app and plays it. Going into Explorer/Options...etc shows that
the file extension is indeed mapped to the application that plays
it. Now, if I create a hyperlink to other types of files (like
a .xls or jpg file) the hyperlink works fine in Excel.

So...seems that Windows/Explorer sees the .wmv file type registration
but Excel does not. Can anyone help me out here....how can I get
Excel to recognize this particular file association that Explorer
already does.

Thanks
Chuck