Excel 2010 - Windows 7

[GQue]

Very odd issue came up and after searching the web, can't really find an answer.

Windows 7 - Just installed Office 2010 Standard. All of the excel files can not be opened directly. If you open Excel and open the file from there, it opens without an issue.

I verified the file associations are correct and the Ignore Other Applications is NOT CHECKED under Options | Advanced | General.

I am going to uninstall, reboot, and re-install hoping that corrects the issue, but if it doesn't, just wanted to put this out there incase anyone else needs a solution.

Lastly, Excel doesn't open at all! I have see issues where Excel would open and the file didn't load. It literally hourglasses for half a second and then does nothing. Right Click Open With... Nothing.

Any insight or help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[alan.m]

Did you have any previous version of office installed?
There can be a lot of problems running two version of office, and problems uninstalling previous versions.
Apparently problems if you upgrade from 32 bit version to a 64 bit version as well.
to uninstall Office see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218
HTH