Thursday, 12 November 2009

Double clicking a word or excel document does not open it

Situation :When you double click on word or excel document to open it, word or excel opens but doesn't load the document. When you go to File->Open this works fine.

What Happened :From what I understand this is down to a problem with Excel communicating with some other installed app that tries to interface with it on startup, you should be able to resolve the issue with by the following means:

Tools -> Options -> General. Uncheck Ignore Other Apps
Close excel
Go to Start -> Run and type excel /unregserver
Go to Start -> Run and type excel /regserver

If you're experiencing the problem with word you winword instead of excel in the above commands

Lesson Learned :I don't know, shit happens?

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