Cannot open Excel file

[MAB]

Running Office 2007 on Windows Vista for a long time, no problem. Today, out
of the suddenly, Excel files stopped being open when I double-click the file.
I can only open Excel file from whithin Excel program using the option
"Open". Already repaired Office, unistalled and reinstalled Excel 2007!
Nothing has worked... Still the error message:

Windows cannot find
'C:\file path...\file name.xlsx'. Make sure you typed the name correctly and
then try again.

Any clue?

Cheers,

MAB.

 

[Alan]

Running Office 2007 on Windows Vista for a long time, no problem. Today, out
of the suddenly, Excel files stopped being open when I double-click the file.
I can only open Excel file from whithin Excel program using the option
"Open". Already repaired Office, unistalled and reinstalled Excel 2007!
Nothing has worked... Still the error message:

Windows cannot find
'C:\file path...\file name.xlsx'. Make sure you typed the name correctly and
then try again.

Any clue?

Cheers,

MAB.

Hi,

Sounds like the file is corrupted. I think you can try a utility
called Advanced Excel Repair to repair your Excel xls file. It works
rather well for my corrupt Excel xls files. Its web address is
http://www.datanumen.com/aer/ Good luck!

Alan

 

[MAB]

Alan,

Thank you for the answer. The problem is not with one specific file. It's
with all Excel files! Would all of them be corrupted? I don't think so...
unless it's a virus for Excel. As no Excel file is open unless from the Open
option from whithin the Excel, I think there might exist a config problem!

Regards,

MAB.

 

[tkc]

I'm having the same problem. My excel program came preloaded on my Dell
computer. I worked online 45 minutes today with a Dell tech, they can't
solve the problem either. I can open about 50% of my spreadsheets, but the
rest say "corrupt". The tech suggested possibly copying the sheets to a scan
disk and opening them on another computer. I haven't tried that yet, however
it doesn't sound to promising. Still searching for a solution

 

[MAB]

Finally!

Go to Excel button and click Excel options. In Advance (left panel) see in
the General options whether the option "Ignore other applications... (DDE)"
is selected. If so, unselect it!

That's it!

Now you can open any Excel file just clicking on it!

MAB.

 

[JanisH]

You Rock!! ..I have been experiencing this for the last few days and
couldn't figure out how to fix. Thank you for the post!
Janis

 

[wiimahn]

Yay!!! Thank you so much, I fought with this issue for some time now, and
wasn't actually sure how to word the error on google. Either way I hit the
jackpot!! Thanks!! Great post, glad there are others that experience these
problems, because I was going CRAZY!!

 

[blueapple]

Thank you very much. I almost give up vista because of this annoying problem!