Association/registration problem with Word and Excel files.

[Matthew Murray]

This problem has been afflicting me for the last few days, and while
it's not completely debilitating, it's amazingly annoying!

Basically: When I double-click on a Word or an Excel document to open
it, Word or Excel will start but will NOT display the document itself.
Once Word comes up, I can go to File->Open and open the document with no
trouble, but it's another, very frustrating step to have to go through.
As far as I can tell, this just started within the last few days.

Word and Excel icons (I'm using Office 2003, for the record) both look
correct, so everything seems to be associated properly. But when I
delete the file type from Folder Options->File Type and then reregister
them with the /r or /regserver options in the Run dialog, the problem is
still not resolved. That seemed to resolve the problems in most of the
other cases I was able to track down in this newsgroup, but not this
one, I'm afraid.

If anyone knows what to do from here, I'd love to know about it--I'd
really like to be able to get this fixed! Thanks.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Try running the Detect and Repair option under the Help menu. If that
doesn't fix it, if you have Norton Anti Virus installed, open NAV and under
Preferences, disable the Office Plug-in option.

 

[Matthew Murray]

Try running the Detect and Repair option under the Help menu. If that
doesn't fix it, if you have Norton Anti Virus installed, open NAV and
under Preferences, disable the Office Plug-in option.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that didn't fix it. And I don't have
Norton installed on this computer... Any other ideas?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80