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When I open an existing file in Excel, Excel opens with no worksheets
showing. I click the Red X to close Excel. Excel closes and behind it is the file I was trying to open. Why is this happening and how can I fix it. |
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How are you opening the file? From the Excel Office Button, Open command or
some other way? Try opening the file from inside of Excel. It sounds like you are opening a separate copy of Excel by double-clicking the file in the Windows Explorer. -- If this helps, please click the Yes button Cheers, Shane Devenshire "Connie in Vegas" wrote: When I open an existing file in Excel, Excel opens with no worksheets showing. I click the Red X to close Excel. Excel closes and behind it is the file I was trying to open. Why is this happening and how can I fix it. |
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You are suffering from a common problem that lots of people have complained
about. The workbook is open, just not visible. One way to see it is to click on the Office button and start to open another workbook, but then just dismiss the dialog. You may see your workbook open after this. (Ctrl-O, then escape may work???) Currently, there isn't a fix--just workarounds. Connie in Vegas wrote: When I open an existing file in Excel, Excel opens with no worksheets showing. I click the Red X to close Excel. Excel closes and behind it is the file I was trying to open. Why is this happening and how can I fix it. -- Dave Peterson |
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I am actually just clicking a saved filed on my desktop or my docs, etc. The
file opens but it is behind the Excel program and when I close the excel program I then see the file I was trying to open. So I am not opening Excel first, just a saved Excel file. "Dave Peterson" wrote: You are suffering from a common problem that lots of people have complained about. The workbook is open, just not visible. One way to see it is to click on the Office button and start to open another workbook, but then just dismiss the dialog. You may see your workbook open after this. (Ctrl-O, then escape may work???) Currently, there isn't a fix--just workarounds. Connie in Vegas wrote: When I open an existing file in Excel, Excel opens with no worksheets showing. I click the Red X to close Excel. Excel closes and behind it is the file I was trying to open. Why is this happening and how can I fix it. -- Dave Peterson |
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What do you mean that the file opens, but behind excel?
Did you try the ctrl-o, escape sequence? Connie in Vegas wrote: I am actually just clicking a saved filed on my desktop or my docs, etc. The file opens but it is behind the Excel program and when I close the excel program I then see the file I was trying to open. So I am not opening Excel first, just a saved Excel file. "Dave Peterson" wrote: You are suffering from a common problem that lots of people have complained about. The workbook is open, just not visible. One way to see it is to click on the Office button and start to open another workbook, but then just dismiss the dialog. You may see your workbook open after this. (Ctrl-O, then escape may work???) Currently, there isn't a fix--just workarounds. Connie in Vegas wrote: When I open an existing file in Excel, Excel opens with no worksheets showing. I click the Red X to close Excel. Excel closes and behind it is the file I was trying to open. Why is this happening and how can I fix it. -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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I do not open Excel first, I open a file I saved in Excel. The file may be
on my desktop, in my docs, on a shared drive, etc., I double click on the file to open it. Excel opens but no visable file, it just has a blue area where the file usually opens. I close excel using the big red X. When excel closes the file I was opening appears. It is like the file opens but a second session of excel opens in front of it. "Dave Peterson" wrote: What do you mean that the file opens, but behind excel? Did you try the ctrl-o, escape sequence? Connie in Vegas wrote: I am actually just clicking a saved filed on my desktop or my docs, etc. The file opens but it is behind the Excel program and when I close the excel program I then see the file I was trying to open. So I am not opening Excel first, just a saved Excel file. "Dave Peterson" wrote: You are suffering from a common problem that lots of people have complained about. The workbook is open, just not visible. One way to see it is to click on the Office button and start to open another workbook, but then just dismiss the dialog. You may see your workbook open after this. (Ctrl-O, then escape may work???) Currently, there isn't a fix--just workarounds. Connie in Vegas wrote: When I open an existing file in Excel, Excel opens with no worksheets showing. I click the Red X to close Excel. Excel closes and behind it is the file I was trying to open. Why is this happening and how can I fix it. -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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Did you try the ctrl-o, escape sequence?
Connie in Vegas wrote: I do not open Excel first, I open a file I saved in Excel. The file may be on my desktop, in my docs, on a shared drive, etc., I double click on the file to open it. Excel opens but no visable file, it just has a blue area where the file usually opens. I close excel using the big red X. When excel closes the file I was opening appears. It is like the file opens but a second session of excel opens in front of it. "Dave Peterson" wrote: What do you mean that the file opens, but behind excel? Did you try the ctrl-o, escape sequence? Connie in Vegas wrote: I am actually just clicking a saved filed on my desktop or my docs, etc. The file opens but it is behind the Excel program and when I close the excel program I then see the file I was trying to open. So I am not opening Excel first, just a saved Excel file. "Dave Peterson" wrote: You are suffering from a common problem that lots of people have complained about. The workbook is open, just not visible. One way to see it is to click on the Office button and start to open another workbook, but then just dismiss the dialog. You may see your workbook open after this. (Ctrl-O, then escape may work???) Currently, there isn't a fix--just workarounds. Connie in Vegas wrote: When I open an existing file in Excel, Excel opens with no worksheets showing. I click the Red X to close Excel. Excel closes and behind it is the file I was trying to open. Why is this happening and how can I fix it. -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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Yes and it didn't help.
"Connie in Vegas" wrote: When I open an existing file in Excel, Excel opens with no worksheets showing. I click the Red X to close Excel. Excel closes and behind it is the file I was trying to open. Why is this happening and how can I fix it. |
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I don't have another suggestion.
Connie in Vegas wrote: Yes and it didn't help. "Connie in Vegas" wrote: When I open an existing file in Excel, Excel opens with no worksheets showing. I click the Red X to close Excel. Excel closes and behind it is the file I was trying to open. Why is this happening and how can I fix it. -- Dave Peterson |
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Thanks for trying! Its just aggrevating to have to close the program
everytime! "Dave Peterson" wrote: I don't have another suggestion. Connie in Vegas wrote: Yes and it didn't help. "Connie in Vegas" wrote: When I open an existing file in Excel, Excel opens with no worksheets showing. I click the Red X to close Excel. Excel closes and behind it is the file I was trying to open. Why is this happening and how can I fix it. -- Dave Peterson |
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Sometimes just showing another dialog (and dismissing it) will show that
"hidden" workbook's window. You may want to try showing a couple different dialogs to see if you can find one that helps you. Connie in Vegas wrote: Thanks for trying! Its just aggrevating to have to close the program everytime! "Dave Peterson" wrote: I don't have another suggestion. Connie in Vegas wrote: Yes and it didn't help. "Connie in Vegas" wrote: When I open an existing file in Excel, Excel opens with no worksheets showing. I click the Red X to close Excel. Excel closes and behind it is the file I was trying to open. Why is this happening and how can I fix it. -- Dave Peterson -- Dave Peterson |
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