Opening Excel files in Explorer

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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Danker

Sometimes one of these works:

Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

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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.

Danker Schaareman wrote:
>
> 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
> --
> Danker

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Dave Peterson

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

Regards
Ken..................

"Danker Schaareman" wrote:

> 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
> --
> Danker

Yes, this did it! Thanks a lot

Regards,
Danker
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Danker


"Ken Wright" wrote:

> Tools / Options / General Tab / Uncheck "Ignore Other applications"
>
> Regards
> Ken..................
>
> "Danker Schaareman" wrote:
>
> > 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
> > --
> > Danker