Office 2007 - gaps in path - psuedo filename - "...cannot be found

[LooseCannon]

Since upgrading to Office 2007, we've had some fun with opening files in a
location that has a gap/space in the path or indeed its file name.

Example: Double click on file stored the desktop, ie not a shortcut,
c:\Documents and Settings\fredBassett\Desktop\New Doc1.xlsx and Excel seems
to try and open the following files:
Documents.xlsx
and.xlsx
Settings.xlsx
New.xlsx
Doc1.xlsx

So, any gap in the path or filename is read as a "."(dot)?

It makes no difference if clicking a shortcut or the actual file. One has to
open the file from with Excel or Word. A real aggravation and additional
confusion to the shock of experiencing Office 2007.

This occurs on a default upgrade from Office 2000. I've not upgraded any
from Office 2003 yet.

I could find any reference to this in here, on the TechNet fora or
Microsoft.com in general.

Any thoughts?

 

[mezzodiva]

I've not seen this before, but have you tried to repair the installation, or
uninstall / re-install?

 

[Beth Melton]

It sounds like your file associations need to be recreated. Try going to
Start/Run and running these commands:

winword /r
excel /regserver

Note the space before the forward slash.

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assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

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[LooseCannon]

I've not seen this before, but have you tried to repair the installation, or
uninstall / re-install?

mezzodiva

Thanks mezzodiva, a repair of some kind seemed to be required indeed. I've
tried that suggested by Beth Melton. I haven't re-installed at all so far.

It sounds like your file associations need to be recreated. Try going to
Start/Run and running these commands:

winword /r
excel /regserver

Note the space before the forward slash.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Thanks Beth, that's resolved this issue with phantom/pseudo files/paths.
Note that I had to get to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12 at the
command prompt so that winword and excel could be found. That would depend
on ones system configuration of course.

However, for everyone's information, running the repairs has recreated the
very annoying loooong load times. As when I first installed Office 2007, it
now takes 2 to 3 minutes to load a file from a short-cut or direct
double-click. Loading from within the program does not suffer such
inexplicable delay. I'd previously resolved this by firstly tweaking the
file association setting (hence the repair!) and later by deleting a errant
printer that didn't show as responding, though infact it didn't. %sigh%
Now the pain is back.

I'll post references to thread related to this other topic.

This file/path topic is completed. Thanks again Beth and mezzodiva.

 

[LooseCannon]

Cross reference linkies:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...en-us-office&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...en-us-office&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1