Double click on icon opens Excel but does not open file

[dymax613]

When I double click on an Excel link, the excel application (container)
opens, but the file does not load. Status bar show "Ready" and nothing
further happens. To open an excel file, I must follow the path from with in
the Excel application. What went wrong? This just started happening. I used
to be able to open Excel files simply by double clicking on the icon. Someone
please help!!!

[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.

Maybe one of these will work for you.

--

Dave Peterson

[dymax613]

Dave,
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Ignore other applications did the trick.

Happy holidays,
David Zimm

[Neild@discussions.microsoft.com Chris Neild]

I tried both these solutions and neither worked,

I have uninstalled > restarted > re install > install SP1 > Windows updates
> restart.

And still does not load. Its only 1 excel file in particular and if i open a
backup from a few weeks ago when it was working i still get the same error

Office 2007 Small Business running on Server 2003 Enterprise (running as
terminal server)

Problem also occurs on my Excel 2003 on Win XP

[Dave Peterson]

I don't have another suggestion--except to try them again.

--

Dave Peterson

[Chris Neild]

The problem may have been the excel file had become corrupt, i used the open
and repair option and it allowed me to open the document.

Thanks for the response tho.

[Alan124]

On Mar 15, 11:15 pm, Chris Neild

> > I don't have another suggestion--except to try them again.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Hi,

I once had similar porblems as you. And I solved it by tried an Excel
file recovery tool to repaired my Excel file. The tool I used called
Advanced Excel Repair to.

Detailed information about Advanced Excel Repair can be found at
http://www.datanumen.com/aer/

And you can also download a free demo version at http://www.datanumen.com/aer/aer.exe

Maybe it will help you too.

Alan

[Heine@discussions.microsoft.com Amy Heine]

Dave -

I have the same problem with a twist. I have tried every answer posted so
far to no avale.

I can open some excel files by double clicking and not others.

As an example a file named "example_spreadsheet" will open by double
clicking or navigating to it within excel.

If the same file were renamed "08.07.07_example_spreadsheet" it will not
open in either manner. Excel error is the file path.

I cannot save files with the second naming convention either.

This was not a problem a few days ago.

IGNORE OTHER APPLICATIONS is not checked. Running excel / unregserver or
excel / regserver both tried to open excel with the response of regserver.xls
could not be found.

Any Suggestions? I need the naming convention back for my business files.

[Gord Dibben]

Amy

Re-read Dave's post.

He did not say to run regserver.xls

Here is my version of the instructions..................

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

1) Start>Run "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)>OK.
2) Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.

See the space between exe and /regserver

You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.

In that case Start>Run "C:\yourpath\excel.exe" /regserver(quotes required)>OK.

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

[Roger]

Tried Ignore check nope
Tried the unregister nope
Tried the full path regserver nope.

My problems began after installing Office 2007 with a problem with Excel
2007 not functioning correctly with the workbook that did work under
Excel-2003 and Excel-97. It took 1:45 to just open the file and 2:05 th
change the value in a single cell.

After spending about 40 hours completely writing a new version of the
workbook with it's 800+ cells with data, formula and cross worksheet
references, but NO MACROS, I thought I was ready to actually start to use
Excel-2007.

However the workbook has developed another problem.

It would not open with a double click in Explorer. It will only open when I
click OPEN in EXCEL

To test I did the following:
I saved a number of copies of the file on my desktop as XLS type, XLSM type,
and XLSX type I also have a copy of the old workbook that would open after
1:45

With no other applications running Double clicking on the XLS or XLSX
files opened them in just a few seconds
double clicking on the old Excel-2003 file opened it in the normal 1:45
double clicking on the XLSM file did not open it.

Note I have not yet included the macros that I had in the old Excel-2003
workbook but was planning on writing them this weekend.

So it looks like there still are serious problems with Excel-2007. I think
I will look into Open Office and see if it can run a spreadsheet.

[Monzur]

Thanks a lot! The first solution worked for me.

Monzur

[K K .texportsyndicate@discussions.microsoft.com Rahul K K .texportsyndicate]

What i feel that you have to change the user profile it will fix the problem

regards
Rahul
texport syndicate

[Bob I]

No, the problem was solved over two years ago.

[capnbo...@gmail.com]

I started having this trouble a week ago. Read and used your method and I can now get my files back on the desktop when double clicking. As the other person said, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

[Saed Iseed]

Thanks, ignore other applications works good

[Albert Brown]

where is tools/options/general ????