I recently came across an issue on my Vista and Office 2007 pc where I could not open any excel file by double clicking on it, whether it be a locally stored file or a file on the network. The only way I could open up the file was by going into Excel and then opening from with in there.
I recently came across an issue on my Vista and Office 2007 pc where I could not open any excel file by double clicking on it, whether it be a locally stored file or a file on the network. The only way I could open up the file was by going into Excel and then opening from with in there.
The solution I found was from: http://forums.techguy.org/business-applications/294819-can-t-open-excel-files.html. However this was for Excel 2003. In my version of Excel there was no Tools option. instead I needed to go into the Excel menu by clicking on the Office logo in the top left of the screen and then selecting Excel Options.
Once in there you go to the Advanced Option and then scroll down to the section for General. Then once in there you can un select the option to Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE).
I can now open my Excel files by double clicking on them from within Windows Explorer. I do not know why it all of a sudden did this but hey, who cares now I know how to fix it!
