Do not uninstall, reinstall before checking the following. Chances are you have a variation on this:
Q139849 This article is an old one for Word 97 but Excel 2000 and other flavors are affected. Usually when you open Excel or Word and then do a file open from within the app you are fine but as you describe, double clicking on the file name within Explorer, etc., gets an error or no display. Investigate the file type as depicted in the article but change the info to reflect your path to Excel. Quote: In the Editing action for type dialog box, the Application used to perform action line should point to <path>\Winword.exe; for example: "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE\WINWORD.EXE" /n %1 NOTE: The %1 may or may not be present on this line. Change the above line to the following: "C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE\WINWORD.EXE" /n "%1" NOTE: The %1 must be enclosed in quotation marks. If the %1 is not on the above line, add the %1 with the quotation marks. End of quoted material. David I know enough to know I don't know enough -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:35 AM Subject: Excel won't open spreadsheet by double-clicking Hi, folks, I have a machine at work that has developed an Excel problem. Windows XP SP1, Office 2000 SR-2. When you double-click on a spreadsheet, Excel will launch, but won't open the spreadsheet. If you click File > Open, it opens fine. This happens with any spreadsheet. Google and MSKB haven't been much help so far, but I'll keep looking. Has anyone here seen this before? Thanks. Mike Fields -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME list is hosted on a Windows 2000(TM) machine running L-Soft international's LISTSERV(R) software. To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have questions about the list, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- ALL messages to the list MUST include a descriptive subject. To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
