Office X.P. & windows 2000 server

[Dan]

When accessing an Excel file on our windows 2000 server
using windows explorer, The Excel program locks up. The
only way I can access a file on the server is to us the
(File, Open,) in the actual excel program. Is there a fix
for this problem? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Dan

 

[Wayne Morgan]

If you have further questions, please post this in the newsgroup for your version of
Windows or one of the Excel newsgroups, this newsgroup is for Access.

Right off hand, I would guess that there is a space in the name of the file or the path to
the file. When you double click on a file to open it, Windows uses commands that are
depicted by opening an Explorer window and going to Tools|Folder Options|File Types tab.
Scroll down the list of file extensions to the XLS extension. Click the Advanced button,
click on Open in the Actions window then click the Edit button. Under DDE Message you
should see something like

[open("%1")]

If the quotes aren't around the %1 then the spaces in the file name will cause problems.