Excel opens everything twice !!??!!??

[danielle]

I just installed Win2000 and Office 97 on a brand new
computer. Clean install, essentially nothing else on the
computer yet. I have a few Excel files, some that were
created previously and a couple that were created on this
machine with this copy of Excel.

If I double click on an Excel file in Explorer, Excel
launches, opens the file, and then tries to open the file
a second time! Anytime I try to open something in this
way I get an error that says something like "A document
with the name "xyz.xls" is already open. You cannot open
two documents with the same name..."

If I start Excel and open the file from the File|Open menu
it works normally.

I do not have my settings such that I only need a single
mouse click; everything else works normally (a double
click on a TXT file opens one copy of it in Notepad, a
double click on a JPEG opens it in PSP, ...)

What is going on????

In Explorer|Folder Options|File Types the XLS extension
opens with
C:\...\excel.exe %1
and the Use DDE command is checked, with
[open("%1")]
What does all this mean?

TIA

 

[news.microoft.com]

I know this doesn't help much, but your not nuts, I had the same issue with
XL97 on XP Home.

It was so frustrating that I upgraded to Office 2000, and the problem went
away.

Stephen

 

[Dave Peterson]

Debra Dalgleish has some notes at:

http://www.contextures.com/xlfaqApp.html#AlreadyOpen

 

[danielle]

Thank you so much!!!!!!!
Running the reregistration as she suggests worked!

Now I'm left wondering why this FAQ on her personal page,
and nowhere to be found on Microsoft's support pages...