Open Excel from Win Explorer

[Ron Adams]

Hi

I have WINXP SP1 and have just noticed that for XLS files I cannot directly
open files from Windows Explorer.
I get a message "Unable to read file"
But I then click TWICE and it opens fine - and not in a read-only form
either.

Can someone point me in the direction of how to fix this please?

TIA

Ron

 

[Dave Peterson]

You may want to try one of these:

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

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.

An alternative might be to do:
Try Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)