I have a problem with my excel files opening when the filenames have spaces.
The files will open, but I get an error for each word in the filename as it
opens.

I have tried to fix this issue but it just won't go away...

Here are the things I have tried
1. Remove Excel.exe from the registry and then re-registered it
2. Removed the .xlb file from the Excel directory in the user's folder
and let Excel rebuild the file.

The problem seems to be stemmed from a "%1" in the file type Open and New
action items. I have tried to remove the "%1", but it keeps coming back
automatically in this open statement from the file types list: "C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office 2007\Office12\EXCEL.EXE" /e "%1"

Has anyone had this issue and had success with fixing it?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

TIA...

Mark Ivey

Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on
the file in windows explorer:

Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

--- or ---

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets some of the windows registry to
excel's factory defaults.

Mark Ivey wrote:
>
> I have a problem with my excel files opening when the filenames have spaces.
> The files will open, but I get an error for each word in the filename as it
> opens.
>
> I have tried to fix this issue but it just won't go away...
>
> Here are the things I have tried
> 1. Remove Excel.exe from the registry and then re-registered it
> 2. Removed the .xlb file from the Excel directory in the user's folder
> and let Excel rebuild the file.
>
> The problem seems to be stemmed from a "%1" in the file type Open and New
> action items. I have tried to remove the "%1", but it keeps coming back
> automatically in this open statement from the file types list: "C:\Program
> Files\Microsoft Office 2007\Office12\EXCEL.EXE" /e "%1"
>
> Has anyone had this issue and had success with fixing it?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA...
>
> Mark Ivey

--

Dave Peterson

Dave,

Thanks a million...

I call myself unregistering Excel, but I didn't use the right technique as
you mentioned. That did the trick. Thank you very much...

Mark Ivey

"Dave Peterson" <petersod@verizonXSPAM.net> wrote in message
news:488534A2.81163EC0@verizonXSPAM.net...
> Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double
> clicking on
> the file in windows explorer:
>
> Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)
>
> --- or ---
>
> Close Excel and
> Windows Start Button|Run
> excel /unregserver
> then
> Windows Start Button|Run
> excel /regserver
>
> The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets some of the windows registry to
> excel's factory defaults.
>
> Mark Ivey wrote:
>>
>> I have a problem with my excel files opening when the filenames have
>> spaces.
>> The files will open, but I get an error for each word in the filename as
>> it
>> opens.
>>
>> I have tried to fix this issue but it just won't go away...
>>
>> Here are the things I have tried
>> 1. Remove Excel.exe from the registry and then re-registered it
>> 2. Removed the .xlb file from the Excel directory in the user's
>> folder
>> and let Excel rebuild the file.
>>
>> The problem seems to be stemmed from a "%1" in the file type Open and New
>> action items. I have tried to remove the "%1", but it keeps coming back
>> automatically in this open statement from the file types list:
>> "C:\Program
>> Files\Microsoft Office 2007\Office12\EXCEL.EXE" /e "%1"
>>
>> Has anyone had this issue and had success with fixing it?
>>
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> TIA...
>>
>> Mark Ivey
>
> --
>
> Dave Peterson