Excel files keep reopening since Office XP upgrade

[tbarthen]

Anyone ever have this problem:

You open an Excel document, and right after it opens, it tries to open again, with the following message:

<filename> is already open. Reopening will cause any changes you made to be discarded. Do you want to reopen <filename>?

This only happens to me when Excel isn't already open in the first place.

Looking at the Open action for xls files in the Microsoft Explorer File Types section, here are my current settings:

Application used to perform action:
&quot;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\EXCEL.EXE&quot; /e &quot;%1&quot;
Use DDE: is checked off.
DDE Message: [open(&quot;%1&quot]
Topic: system

I don't know if those settings have anything to do with the problem, but just in case someone asks, here they are.

 

[tbarthen]

Let me resolve this for anyone who cares. I think that would be just myself.

Click on the Windows Start menu, and chose run.
Type the following command and run it:

&quot;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Excel.exe&quot; /regserver

Or if the directory path to your Excel.exe file is something different, then change the path in your command