Excel 2002 wont open workbooks

Hi

I'm running Windows 10 Pro version 1809. I have two versions of Office installed, the latest and Office xp, which contains Excel 2002.

I want to use Excel 2002, and I want to open files in separate instances of Excel.

If I check "Tools/Options/General/Ignore other applications" and click on a *.xls file icon, Excel opens, but doesn't open the file workbook. The only way I can open a file is to go through File/Open.

If I uncheck the box, files open normally, but in the same instance of Excel.

Everything was working properly until I had a hard disk crash. I don't know what version of Windows 10 I was using before the crash, but it was likely a much earlier version than the 1809 that I have now. Presumably some update is causing the problem?

Can anyone suggest a solution, please? Thanks.

Hi, I'm having a similar issue running some macros using .xls workbooks in Windows 10 Pro version 1809. The problem only occurs on our user laptops that are running version 1809.

The other versions of windows 10 open and run these workbooks correctly.

Since we don't know what was changed in Excel in version 1809, I cannot tell what VBA feature to fix or replace. Did anyone have a similar experience??

Any help is appreciated. I have annoyed users who can't do their job.

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I am sorry I hijacked the thread with one post. I searched this forum for my problem and found this thread that had a similar problem, so I wanted to post in the same topic. Many forums prefer that you not make multiple threads about similar issues.