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Dice31213

I am having a problem with opening attatched excel files. Every time I try
to open one from an email it pops up a box that says "The system cannot find
the file specified." I don't have a clue what could be wrong. I can still
open Excel files already saved on my hard drive but not ones sent as an
attachment from an email. Can anyone help?
 
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sebastienm

Hi,

- not sure but what is the 'Ignore Other Applications' setting in excel?
(menu Tools > Options, tab General). If checked, try unchecking it. If not,
then i have no idea.
- as a last resort, you can download the file from the email and ten open it
from your hard drive. But that's probably what you are doing now.
 
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Dice31213

I tried this, but it doesn't work. Maybe I will just get someone to come and
look at it. Thanks for your time and knowledge.
 
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Spoon

I tried this and it worked. I would get the same error message as below while
opening an attachment. If I opened a file on my desktop, it would just not
open. (no error) It all works now. Thanks for the info and thanks for asking
the question.
 
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Mummsy

I have this problem, and also where it cannot find the file on my hard drive.
I can open them by going "the long way" but I can only preview most times. It
doesn't make any diffeerence if they are saved to desktop.
 
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witek

Mummsy said:
I have this problem, and also where it cannot find the file on my hard drive.
I can open them by going "the long way" but I can only preview most times. It
doesn't make any diffeerence if they are saved to desktop.
Click to expand...


Try to repair Office. Go to Help -> Detect and Repair.

There is a handler between application and OS saying how and what
application should open a file.
Repairing Office installation should help.
 
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Vikki Stahl

Thank you, your post solved my issue -- I have been messing with this for
months i unchecked the "ignore other programs using DDE" and now i can open
excel files in QuickBooks online.
 
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