Need to change "open with" designation?

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EASC

when I try to open my excel spreadsheets, they open in Notepad and are
scrambled. I have tried to change associated program unseccessfully.
 
D

Dave Peterson

I'd try letting excel change the association.

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.
 
E

EASC

I tried your solution, but I get a message saying that excel/unregserver not
found. The same for regserver. I did a search for unregserver on my harddrive
and got no results.
 
D

Dave Peterson

Watch your spaces.

There's a space after excel and before the slash (in both commands).
 
D

Dave Peterson

ps. These are flags that you're passing to the excel.exe program--not files to
be processed.
 
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