Excel file association error?

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JayL

All,
Running Excel 2000, if I navigate to a file using explorer, find the Excel
file I want and double click on it, Excel appears to try to open each piece
of the file name, returning an error then finally opening the file.

Example: I have a file named "1st quarter results.xls"
Excel will try to open a file name '1st', return an error, I click OK then
it attempts to open a file named 'quarter', returns an error, I click OK,
then it trys to a file named 'results' ... finally it opens the correct
file.
I've tried this ...
Open any folder and go to Tools\Folder Options\File Types tab.

Scroll down the list of registered file types and select XLS. Under the
'details' section, click the "advanced" button. In the new dialog that comes
up, select "Open," (which should be in bold letters) and click 'Edit.'

Under "Application used to perform action," it should have the path to the
excel.exe file, and any switches you've applied. At the very end of that
line, add "%1" *including* the quotes.
Then just click OK until you're completely out of the folder options, then
try opening your file again.

But I still have the problem.

Any ideas?

-Jay
 
Sometimes one of these works:

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.
 
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