XLT files not opening on doubleclick

[Daniel]

I recently reinstalled Windows XP PRO SP2 and Office XP Small Business
Edition SP3. After that I noticed that double clicking on a XLT file just
opens Excel, but doesn't create an XLS file based on the template. This is
only happening on the user's account, there's no problem on the administrator
account. I even made the limited user member of the Administrators group, but
no luck. I reinstalled Office without upgrading to SP3. Same thing...

Any idea?
Thank you

 

[Dave Peterson]

This is a common response when the user has trouble double clicking on a .xls
file. Maybe it'll work for your user for *.xlt files.

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Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on
the file in windows explorer:

Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

--- or ---

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.

Maybe one of these will work for you.

 

[Daniel]

Unchecking "Ignore other applications" did the trick.

Thank you.
Daniel