Problem Opening Excel files

[Paul Bull]

Please Help

I have Excel XP and I cant open another Excel file from Explorer or from an
attachment in an email if I already have an excel file open.

If i click on an excel file in explorer to open it it justs brings my
previously opended excel file to the foreground. It doent open the new one
at all. I have to go into the open excel sheet and choose open and browse
for the file to open it which obviously causes a problem If I want to open
an excel attachment.

Any ideas.

Cheers

 

[Dave Peterson]

Sometimes one of these works:

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)

(Did you get any error message at all? If these didn't help, post back with any
error message.)

 

[Paul Bull]

The re-register trick worked.

Thanks alot.....

Sometimes one of these works:

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)

(Did you get any error message at all? If these didn't help, post back with any
error message.)