Excel extentions trouble!

[radio1_mike]

Hey ho-

My laptop here at work will not open Excel files correctly.

All of a sudden (well, it's been awhile) if I double-click on an Excel file, it will boot up Excel, but with no worksheet. If Excel is open, it will just open to the worksheet already selected.


The only way I can now open a new worksheet is to do a file->open in Excel itself.

The laptop is running Win2000 and Office XP, and I have already tried resetting the file associations for Excel worksheets.

help!

[Epidemic]

Well one thought is just to re-install it.

Gotta headache?

Cut the head off.

[Epidemic]

Hey that is the easiest MicroSoft solution I could think of.

Troubleshooting 101
CTRL ALT DEL fixes everything
if that don't work re-install it.
if that don't work then re-install OS
if that don't work replace the hard drive
if that don't work replace the machine.

KISS MS style

[radio1_mike]

Okay. Okay. I can appreciate the humor.

But, I do need a solution to this problem. And I really would not mind re-installing OfficeXP if I could do it myself. As of now, I have to call my IT people about it.

And I'd rather not call them for something so retarded.

[osprey4]

THIS MS KB article sounds like your situation, even though it's not exactly your problem.

Have you installed and updates or service packs?

[radio1_mike]

Sounds exactly like the problem, except for the Thai-language dealie.

I'll have to apply this patch later and see.


I don't really patch OfficeXP on this particular laptop, since you do need the disk usually when you update. Seeing as how IT has the disk, updating is not really an issue.