Excel File Association not working

S

Sandy M

Hi,

One of our users cannot open an Excel file by just double-clicking on
it any
longer.

If he opens Excel first, he can browse to the file and open it.

I looked at the file associations for .xls types of files and it lists
Excel
as the program to use to open .xls.

I tried an Office repair, but that didn't help.

Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

Thanks,

Sandy M
 
D

Dave Peterson

Sometimes one of these works for similar problems.

Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

--- or ---

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.
 
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