Hi

I have a friend who has a windows XP Home machine with excel 2003

Recently the ability to double click an excel file and it open up excel and
its contents have failed.

When the file is double clicked (xls) excel will open with no blank workbook
or the file selected.

If i manually open excel up and open the file this works fine.

I presume it some registry or association corruption !

Can anyone advise me if there is a registry setting to check out or way of
setting up the file assocation .

Unfortuantely my friend is not very computer litrerate and is quite a
distance a way so I am basically working via a remote connection as I am
unable to travel to deinstall / reinstall for him easily.

Many thanks

Nick C