opening .xls files

[Ed]

I am running Office 97 pro (sr2) and Windows 2000
professional (sp3).
when I go to documents from the start bar and click on a
excel spreadsheet (.xls) or when I double click that file
name in explorer, it always opens the file, then comes up
with an annoying pop up that says it cant open a file that
is already open. I don't get the problem if I start the
program first then open the file from within excel.
How can I stop it from trying to open the file twice and
get rid of that pop up when I try to open the file by
double clicking the file name in explorer or clicking on
it from "documents" in the start bar???
Thanks

 

[Beth Melton]

Hi Ed,

The problem lies in the file association. To recreate it go to
Start/Run and run the following:

excel /regserver

Note the space before the forward slash.

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