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Cannot open the excel file from windows explorer?

I have a problem with opening an excel file. I was trying to establish a command control (bottun) and I could not initialise the bottun so I gave up. I stopped working on the file but I saved the changes. However, from that point, I cannot open the any excel file normally. When I double click any excel file, it opens a empty excel without the spread sheet and I have to use 'open' to open any file I want to open rather than opening the specific excel file from the folder.

I actually did not write any VBA code because I gave up before I made any change and honestly did not change the settings. I changed some security settings to allow the macro but I turned them back as before, I still cannot open the excel file normally.

Did anyone encounter something like this?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Yeah i did once. Its the setting. The extension .xlsx was set to open the Excel.exe file... rather to open IN Excel.exe.

    check again. click Start - type "assoc"...change the file type..

    right click and change it.

    the real open with file must be this file:

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\excel.exe

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