Excel

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John Lynch

I have just installed XP in place of Win 98. I have also
installed MS Office 97. I uploaded my My Documents files
from previous

When I go into My Documents and open both Word and Excel
files, a dialogue box tells me that there is another file
of the same name or it is being used by John Lynch, who
is my self of course. It appears that the files, even
after amendment or creation of new files, are mirrored.
For example: opening an Excel file, dialogue box shows:
"A document with the same name 'Attendance expected.xls'
is already open. You cannot open two documents with the
same name even if the documents are in different
folders. To open the second document, either close the
document that's currently open, or rename one of the
documents."
Any help please?
 
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Jim Rech

Your file associations are messed up a bit. The easiest way to fix them is
to execute "Excel.exe /regserver" (no quotes) from Start->Run. Note there
is a space before the "/".
 
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John Lynch

Jim
Many thanks indeed for your assistance. It has worked
within seconds. I don't suppose you know how to do the
same for Word?
This is the first time I have used newsgroups and I must
say I am very impressed.
John Lynch
 
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Jim Rech

I'm sorry but I don't know the equivalent for Word. I tried the obvious
(running Windword.exe /regserver) but it didn't seem to do anything.

You might try fixing the Word file association directly. Here's the steps
that I think will do it:

1. Open Windows Explorer
2. Tools, Folder Options, File Types.
3. Select "DOC" in the list.
4. Advanced, Open, Edit.

Now in the "application used..." box look for a "%1" near the end of the
command line. If it's there delete it and OK yourself all the way out.

If there is no "%1" then something else is going on. The problem btw (at
least with Excel) was that you had a %1 both on the command line and in the
"DDE Message". It really belongs only in the latter.
 
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Gord Dibben

Jim/John

For Word...........

Start>Run "winword.exe /r" (no quotes and note the space before the /
mark). Again, you may have to enter the full path to winword.exe

Why the difference??

Gord Dibben Excel MVP
 
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John Lynch

Hi Gord
Many thanks for your help - it worked immediately with
winword.exe /r.


-----Original Message-----
Jim/John

For Word...........

Start>Run "winword.exe /r" (no quotes and note the space before the /
mark). Again, you may have to enter the full path to winword.exe

Why the difference??

Gord Dibben Excel MVP
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John Lynch

Hi Jim
Many thanks for your help.
The method shown by Gord worked immediately.
John
 
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