Double clicking excel in windows explorer

[Andre]

Hello,

I'm using Office XP and when I double click an excel file
in windows explorer, it shows a blank screen and toolbars
only. But when using file, open, then it's okay.

I also happens in my word documents.

Any ideas?

Thanks

andre

[Dave Peterson]

Do you get any error messages (like "cannot find...")

You may want to try these. Sometimes one will fix your problem:

Close Excel and
Start|Run
excel.exe /regserver

The /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's factory defaults.

An alternative might be to do:
Try Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

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Dave Peterson
ec3...@msn.com