Opening Excel files in Explorer

  • Thread starter Danker Schaareman
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Danker Schaareman

Usually you can open any excel file by double clicking the file from within
Windows Explorer. Since some time for a mysterious reason this doesn't work
any more. Excel opens but not the file. Any ideas why this is so and what to
do about it?

Tanks for info,
Danker
 
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Dave Peterson

Sometimes one of these works:

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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Ken Wright

Tools / Options / General Tab / Uncheck "Ignore Other applications"

Regards
Ken..................
 
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