Saved file won't open when double clicked

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XP Home; SP2. Office 2003.

Sunday, when I double click on a saved .xls file, it opened to the workbook
fine.

Monday, double click the same file and a blank file opens... all the task
buttons are there, just no worksheets, nothing... just grey. If I then click
File/Open and navigate to the file, it will open the information when I
select it.

As of Monday, no saved file will open unless we use the File/Open way.
However, just double clicking the excel program itself will open a blank
workbook, three tabs at bottom, all pretty and everything.

Any help would be appreciated!

Robert
 
Tools > Options > General

Make sure the Ignore other applications checkbox is cleared.
 
Gary's Student,

Thank you for responding... and HOORAH!!! it worked.

Thank you thank you thank you.

Robert
 
Hi!
I'm having the same trouble with office 2007, XP prof sp2. I have
unchecked the "Ignore other applications"-box, but it doesn't help!

Anyone know???


Sol
 
I found the answer!

zmoj writes:

I found a solution on another forum that seems to be working for me. I
had a file called "PDFMaker.xla" in my XLStart directory (C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\XLSTART). Once I removed this file,
Excel started opening files without delay. I also was still able to
create PDF's with my current "PDF or XPS" add-in.

see
<http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1201630&SiteID=17>


This solved the problem!!!

Sol
 
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