Excel Brain Buster... see if you can crack it

[Jacksono7]

Excel was tampered with one day and has never been right since. I click on any file that has been saved and is being saved. The file will not open. I have to click on any Excel document and then click file open to find the file and finaly open the desired file. How can I change this crazy way of opening the files? I want to just open it when I click on it. Not click on it and then choose file/open/THE FILE to access it.

Good Luck

P.S.- Have tried restoring any way possible. No go.

 

[Jacksono7]

Tip

It could be the USERS to the computer that is corrupting the files. Why would this happen? Why would some kind of configuration mess the opening of my files.

 

[ScotB]

I had a similar problem some time ago, which just seemed to "happen".

I eventually found that Tools--Options--General--Ignore other applications
was checked. Unchecking the box brought it back to normal.

 

[Legacy 98055]

You might want to re-register Excel. This should re-establish file extension associations. Start > Run >
then type the following in and click Ok.

Excel.exe /RegServer

or

Open Window's Explorer > Folder Options > File Types

Find XLS and change the application to Microsoft Excel