conversion from notepad to excel

[lewarthur]

I was trying to convert a lotus123 to excel and did something that all my
excel worksheets (.xls) now open in wordpad. What did I do?

How can I get all mt files back to my normal excel

Thanks

 

[Earl Kiosterud]

Arthur,

Do the file names still have .xls for the extension? Can you open them inside Excel with
File - Open, and if so, do the formulas still work?

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[lewarthur]

I was trying to convert a lotus123 to excel and did something that all my
excel worksheets (.xls) now open in wordpad. What did I do?

How can I get all mt files back to my normal excel

Thanks

The XLS ectensions are still there. When I try to open it goes to wordpad.
If I open from the right side window of recent files used it opens as an
excel spread, but when I save again it goes back to wordpad

 

[lewarthur]

I just checked and was able to open from excel, but when I save and go back
to file direct not thru excel to opens as wordpad

 

[Earl Kiosterud]

I presume this was a reply to my post. It was posted as a reply to your original post.
Also, you're mixing bottom-posting with the existing top-posting.

Your Windows file association seems to have gotten changed for the xls extension. To fix
it, open any folder (My Documents will do). Tools - Folder options - File types tab. Find
the xls extension in the list. It's probably saying to open with WordPad. Change it there
to Excel.
--
Earl Kiosterud
www.smokeylake.com

Note: Some folks prefer bottom-posting. But if you bottom-post to a reply that's already
top-posted, the thread gets messy. When in Rome.

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[Dave Peterson]

The first thing that I'd try is to reregister excel to set it back to factory
defaults.

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

Then test it out.