Excel can't open files from Explorer. It only opens from File men.

[irish_dew]

A friend has recently found her pc is no longer opening Excel files by
clicking on them in Windows Explorere or from attachments to emails. Excel
opens but with the usual message to check filename and path. However by
opening Excel from the Programs menu, there is no problem opening any file.
The Pc is running Excel 97 on a Windows 2000NT operating system. I installed
Excel 2000 but it didn't cure the problem. Anyone know of a cure?

 

[Ken Wright]

Tools / Options / General / Uncheck 'Ignore Other Applications'

 

[irish_dew]

Thanks Ken, I will try this out later.

Tools / Options / General / Uncheck 'Ignore Other Applications'

 

[irish_dew]

Worked a treat, thanks Ken

Tools / Options / General / Uncheck 'Ignore Other Applications'

 

[Ken Wright]

You're welcome

 

[John Riggins]

Ken,
I tried this fix; now I get error messages sequentially that divide the
address into parts at the spaces: "'C:\Documents.xls' could not be found...,
"'and.xls' could not be found..., "'Settings\Owner\My.xls' could not be
found..., "'Documents\Golf.xls' could not be found..., "'and.xls" could not
be found..., "'Fitness.xls' could not be found..., "'Tracking.xls' could not
be found...

The file I was trying to open in Explorer was 'Golf and Fitness
Tracking.xls' within C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents.

After clicking through all the sequential (and cryptically partial) error
messages the file finally opened. THAT was an improvement after applying
your remedy. Now how do I get rid of all the error messages?

John

 

[cmward]

We are running Excel 2000 on Windows XP and experience the exact same problem
on only 2 of our users PCs (we have about 100 users).

Does anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks Cindy

 

[RWN]

I had the exact same problem and fixed it by re-registering xl using the following process
(provided by Dave Peterson).
<quote>
Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.
<endquote>

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Regards;
Rob
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We are running Excel 2000 on Windows XP and experience the exact same problem
on only 2 of our users PCs (we have about 100 users).

Does anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks Cindy

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