setting office 365 (2016?) as default to open excel files in win10

Hi - I've looked around and can't find an answer to this one.

I've updated to Office 365 (which I think is Office 2016?) - I cannot open excel files (.xlsx or xlsm) from the desktop icon for the file

I can open the program and find the file, which then opens it but surely there must be a way of making this work

I have checked the default program for these files and it is showing as Excel 2016

Any ideas?

Hi Ali - it's all excel files - I get this message

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Good afternoon Andy Swain

It seems that quite a few users are experiencing this - I didn't - and below are some of the suggestions that are reported to have worked (not in all instances).
Try them in the order I have put them, starting from the least drastic.

• In your Excel settings, find and untick the Ignore Other Applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE).

• From the Windows Start menu, choose Run and enter Excel.exe /regserver. This will force Windows to re-register all it's registry keys

• Try repairing the installation :
  1. Open Control Panel and click on Programs and Features icon.
  2. Now click on Microsoft Office entry present in the list and click on "Change" button.
  3. Now select "Repair" option and click on "Continue" button.

HTH

DominicB

Thanks Dominic - will give those a go in the morning and report back - fingers crossed.

Originally Posted by xlnitwit

FYI, the /regserver switch was removed from Office 2013 onwards.

OK, thanks for the heads up. Will try and remember that

DominicB

Hi all

I contacted MS and they ran a repair on the installation - that has sorted it - thanks again to all suggestions