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  • Double click on icon opens Excel but does not open file

    From Saed Iseed@21:1/5 to Dave Peterson on Sun Apr 18 02:02:01 2021
    On Tuesday, December 25, 2007 at 4:15:35 AM UTC+2, Dave Peterson wrote:
    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.
    dymax613 wrote:

    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
    Thanks, ignore other applications works good

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  • From Albert Brown@21:1/5 to Saed Iseed on Fri Jul 1 21:08:55 2022
    On Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 4:02:03 AM UTC-5, Saed Iseed wrote:
    On Tuesday, December 25, 2007 at 4:15:35 AM UTC+2, Dave Peterson wrote:
    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.
    dymax613 wrote:

    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
    Thanks, ignore other applications works good
    where is tools/options/general ????

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