Opening Excel workbooks from Windows Explorer

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R Ormerod

If I have two workbooks open in Excel and try and open a third from Windows
Explorer I return to the session of Excel but the file does not open. If I
close all files the same thing continues to happen.

The only way to open more files is by using the File => Open command (not as
convenient as Explorer) or starting a new session of Excel.

I have 'Windows in Taskbar' unchecked in Options because I find it
irritating with multiple files open.

FYI I have Windows XP Professional SP-2 version 5.1 & Excel 2002.

Any ideas?
 
D

Dave Peterson

Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on
the file in windows explorer:

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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