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problem opening saved files
I am having a problem with excel recognizing files that have been saved to my
documents folder. It will not open any of my excel programs from outside of the program itself, only by clicking on the recent files list at the bottom of the file menu. Can someone help, please. I need to send a file to my daughter, but excel will not open the file. We are both using excel / office 97 gmh |
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problem opening saved files
Make the sure that the file still has the ".xls" file extension on it (file
name.xls). I have had instances that an extension is stripped off and a program will not recognize it. "gnjmh" wrote: I am having a problem with excel recognizing files that have been saved to my documents folder. It will not open any of my excel programs from outside of the program itself, only by clicking on the recent files list at the bottom of the file menu. Can someone help, please. I need to send a file to my daughter, but excel will not open the file. We are both using excel / office 97 gmh |
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Thanks, Mike, I looked and the xls ext is still attatched.
"Mike" wrote: Make the sure that the file still has the ".xls" file extension on it (file name.xls). I have had instances that an extension is stripped off and a program will not recognize it. "gnjmh" wrote: I am having a problem with excel recognizing files that have been saved to my documents folder. It will not open any of my excel programs from outside of the program itself, only by clicking on the recent files list at the bottom of the file menu. Can someone help, please. I need to send a file to my daughter, but excel will not open the file. We are both using excel / office 97 gmh |
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Actually, when the could nto find file error box pops up, it makes the suggestion to retype the name correctly (it is already correct) or to try to search for the file. When you run a Windows search, the file actually shows up 3 times...each time I have opened the file to edit it and then resaved it to a different folder in My Documents. Course then when I try to open the "found" files, they get the can not be found error....can't seem to understand how Windows search shows the files in My documents, but they won't open from those respective folders. "gnjmh" wrote: Thanks, Mike, I looked and the xls ext is still attatched. "Mike" wrote: Make the sure that the file still has the ".xls" file extension on it (file name.xls). I have had instances that an extension is stripped off and a program will not recognize it. "gnjmh" wrote: I am having a problem with excel recognizing files that have been saved to my documents folder. It will not open any of my excel programs from outside of the program itself, only by clicking on the recent files list at the bottom of the file menu. Can someone help, please. I need to send a file to my daughter, but excel will not open the file. We are both using excel / office 97 gmh |
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Try this: Open Excel, Tools Options 'General' tab, make sure 'Ignore other applications' is unchecked. George Gee "gnjmh" wrote in message ... Actually, when the could nto find file error box pops up, it makes the suggestion to retype the name correctly (it is already correct) or to try to search for the file. When you run a Windows search, the file actually shows up 3 times...each time I have opened the file to edit it and then resaved it to a different folder in My Documents. Course then when I try to open the "found" files, they get the can not be found error....can't seem to understand how Windows search shows the files in My documents, but they won't open from those respective folders. "gnjmh" wrote: Thanks, Mike, I looked and the xls ext is still attatched. "Mike" wrote: Make the sure that the file still has the ".xls" file extension on it (file name.xls). I have had instances that an extension is stripped off and a program will not recognize it. "gnjmh" wrote: I am having a problem with excel recognizing files that have been saved to my documents folder. It will not open any of my excel programs from outside of the program itself, only by clicking on the recent files list at the bottom of the file menu. Can someone help, please. I need to send a file to my daughter, but excel will not open the file. We are both using excel / office 97 gmh |
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George, Thank You! this seems to hae fixed my problem. It is opening files
from my documents folder now. Thanks again....I really appreciate everyone who tried to help gmh "George Gee" wrote: gnjmh Try this: Open Excel, Tools Options 'General' tab, make sure 'Ignore other applications' is unchecked. George Gee "gnjmh" wrote in message ... Actually, when the could nto find file error box pops up, it makes the suggestion to retype the name correctly (it is already correct) or to try to search for the file. When you run a Windows search, the file actually shows up 3 times...each time I have opened the file to edit it and then resaved it to a different folder in My Documents. Course then when I try to open the "found" files, they get the can not be found error....can't seem to understand how Windows search shows the files in My documents, but they won't open from those respective folders. "gnjmh" wrote: Thanks, Mike, I looked and the xls ext is still attatched. "Mike" wrote: Make the sure that the file still has the ".xls" file extension on it (file name.xls). I have had instances that an extension is stripped off and a program will not recognize it. "gnjmh" wrote: I am having a problem with excel recognizing files that have been saved to my documents folder. It will not open any of my excel programs from outside of the program itself, only by clicking on the recent files list at the bottom of the file menu. Can someone help, please. I need to send a file to my daughter, but excel will not open the file. We are both using excel / office 97 gmh |
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gmh
Glad to have been able to help. Thanks for the feedback. George Gee "gnjmh" wrote in message ... George, Thank You! this seems to hae fixed my problem. It is opening files from my documents folder now. Thanks again....I really appreciate everyone who tried to help gmh "George Gee" wrote: gnjmh Try this: Open Excel, Tools Options 'General' tab, make sure 'Ignore other applications' is unchecked. George Gee "gnjmh" wrote in message ... Actually, when the could nto find file error box pops up, it makes the suggestion to retype the name correctly (it is already correct) or to try to search for the file. When you run a Windows search, the file actually shows up 3 times...each time I have opened the file to edit it and then resaved it to a different folder in My Documents. Course then when I try to open the "found" files, they get the can not be found error....can't seem to understand how Windows search shows the files in My documents, but they won't open from those respective folders. "gnjmh" wrote: Thanks, Mike, I looked and the xls ext is still attatched. "Mike" wrote: Make the sure that the file still has the ".xls" file extension on it (file name.xls). I have had instances that an extension is stripped off and a program will not recognize it. "gnjmh" wrote: I am having a problem with excel recognizing files that have been saved to my documents folder. It will not open any of my excel programs from outside of the program itself, only by clicking on the recent files list at the bottom of the file menu. Can someone help, please. I need to send a file to my daughter, but excel will not open the file. We are both using excel / office 97 gmh |
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This worked for me one time and has never worked again. The ONLY way that I
have been able to open .xls files is if I am in Excel and do "file open." Which is very inefficient.... any other recommendations? I have seen the recommendation to hold down the Control key while opening & this hasn't done any good. Tx, ann "George Gee" wrote: gmh Glad to have been able to help. Thanks for the feedback. George Gee "gnjmh" wrote in message ... George, Thank You! this seems to hae fixed my problem. It is opening files from my documents folder now. Thanks again....I really appreciate everyone who tried to help gmh "George Gee" wrote: gnjmh Try this: Open Excel, Tools Options 'General' tab, make sure 'Ignore other applications' is unchecked. George Gee "gnjmh" wrote in message ... Actually, when the could nto find file error box pops up, it makes the suggestion to retype the name correctly (it is already correct) or to try to search for the file. When you run a Windows search, the file actually shows up 3 times...each time I have opened the file to edit it and then resaved it to a different folder in My Documents. Course then when I try to open the "found" files, they get the can not be found error....can't seem to understand how Windows search shows the files in My documents, but they won't open from those respective folders. "gnjmh" wrote: Thanks, Mike, I looked and the xls ext is still attatched. "Mike" wrote: Make the sure that the file still has the ".xls" file extension on it (file name.xls). I have had instances that an extension is stripped off and a program will not recognize it. "gnjmh" wrote: I am having a problem with excel recognizing files that have been saved to my documents folder. It will not open any of my excel programs from outside of the program itself, only by clicking on the recent files list at the bottom of the file menu. Can someone help, please. I need to send a file to my daughter, but excel will not open the file. We are both using excel / office 97 gmh |
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