Opening .XLS files

[Rusty Shackelford]

I am having a problem opening files from the desktop or file explorer. Exell
opens but it the file does not. If I open exell first then open files
through exell it works.I have tried repairing office and that did not work.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jeff

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
goto 'Tools - Options - General' and uncheck 'Ignore other
Applications'