opening files in xcel...

[Russell]

I have run into a problem with excel opening a new file if
excel is already open.
If I have excel workbook open, and try to open an *.xls
attachment from email, it responds like is trying to open,
but all I see is the original workbook.

Thanks,
Russell

 

[Dave Peterson]

When we used Netscape Messenger, it sometimes got confused when I tried to open
an attachment the second time. I think it was because it didn't want to
overwrite the filename in the windows Temp folder.

If I closed netscape and restarted it, it usually worked. But real workaround
was to just make sure I emptied my windows Temp folder more often.

But if you don't use Netscape Messenger as your email client, maybe one of these
will fix your problem:

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)