The steps I gave should get you one instance of Excel.
You could try these manual steps..............
If you are running Vista rhese steps may not do anything.
Instructions for Windows XP and earlier.
Go to Start>Settings>Control Panel>Folder Options>File Types
If using WinXP OS you would scroll down to .XLXS then "Advanced">Open>Edit.
In Command line the path should be similar to this....
"C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE12\EXCEL.EXE" /e
You must have the double quotes and the <space>/e prevents a new blank book
from opening. Remove that if you wish.
Below have "use DDE" checked and this in the DDE message box....[open("%1")]
Application should read "Excel"(no quotes)
Again...........if no joy, I'm out of ideas.
Gord
You're right; SP2 did not fix anything.
When I ran the unreg it just opened excel. I closed excel and ran rhe reg
and excel opened again. However, I'm still having the same problm.. Could it
be something in the registry?
Joe
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SP2 will not fix your problem AFAIK
"Did not work" means what?
Error message or the re-installer ran but did stop your problem?
Gord
The box was already unchecked. I tried the other fix, but that did not work.
I am installing service pack 2 to see if that helps.
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Try the usual fix for this.
Tools>Options>General Uncheck "Ignore Other Applications etc."
In 2007 that would be Button>Excel Options>Advanced>General
If no joy with that................
Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar
1) Start>Run "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)>OK.
2) Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)>OK.
See the space between exe and /regserver
You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.
In that case Start>Run "C:\yourpath\excel.exe" /regserver(quotes
required)>OK.
Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
Whenever I double-click on an Excel file to open it, The Excel program opens
again in a new session rather than just opening the file in the current
session.
