Double click xlsname in explorer doesn't work.
My recent foray into automating excel via its com interface went fine as far
as the program is concerned. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way I've messed up its ability to function interactively from my desktop. In particular, when I double click on a xls file in Windows explorer, excel starts up with the message "Windows cannot find "+ the name of the xls in question or a similar dialog with a "Microsoft Excel" caption which reads "<xyz could not be found. Check... ", where xyz is a garbled form of the name of the directory in which the xls in question resides. I can eventually open the files in question via File-Open, but I'd like to get everything back to the way it was. TIA -Lew |
Double click xlsname in explorer doesn't work.
Lew
Try the usual fix(es) for this problem. ToolsOptionsGeneral uncheck "Ignore other Applications" Exit Excel and try again If this doesn't work try to re-register Excel Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar 1) StartRun "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)OK. 2) StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK. See the space between exe and /regserver You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe. In that case StartRun "C:\yourpath\excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:06:01 -0400, "Lew Schwartz" wrote: My recent foray into automating excel via its com interface went fine as far as the program is concerned. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way I've messed up its ability to function interactively from my desktop. In particular, when I double click on a xls file in Windows explorer, excel starts up with the message "Windows cannot find "+ the name of the xls in question or a similar dialog with a "Microsoft Excel" caption which reads "<xyz could not be found. Check... ", where xyz is a garbled form of the name of the directory in which the xls in question resides. I can eventually open the files in question via File-Open, but I'd like to get everything back to the way it was. TIA -Lew Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP |
Double click xlsname in explorer doesn't work.
Thanks, Gord. Reregistering worked.
"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ... Lew Try the usual fix(es) for this problem. ToolsOptionsGeneral uncheck "Ignore other Applications" Exit Excel and try again If this doesn't work try to re-register Excel Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar 1) StartRun "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)OK. 2) StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK. See the space between exe and /regserver You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe. In that case StartRun "C:\yourpath\excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:06:01 -0400, "Lew Schwartz" wrote: My recent foray into automating excel via its com interface went fine as far as the program is concerned. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way I've messed up its ability to function interactively from my desktop. In particular, when I double click on a xls file in Windows explorer, excel starts up with the message "Windows cannot find "+ the name of the xls in question or a similar dialog with a "Microsoft Excel" caption which reads "<xyz could not be found. Check... ", where xyz is a garbled form of the name of the directory in which the xls in question resides. I can eventually open the files in question via File-Open, but I'd like to get everything back to the way it was. TIA -Lew Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP |
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