If I receive an email with an. If these steps do not resolve your issue, continue on to the next item on the list. The download makes the software virtualized so I cannot even find a. In that case it really does sound like a file association issue. Though a tedious one: First make your file extensions visible. Frequently, a user inherits an Excel file but doesn't know what is included in the file.
If installing the latest Office updates did not resolve your issue, continue on to the next item on this list. Windows 7, just bought and downloaded Office 2010 yesterday and now I can't open any files by double clicking on them. Either something with this file is wrong, or your office has a problem. Not sure whether it is you or me. If Excel is not is use by another process, continue on to the next item on the list. My previous version of Office was 2003.
Try starting Excel without add-ins to see if the problem goes away. Make sure the application is not running under any kind of compatibility mode. You can open a workbook in this file format in Excel 2010, but you cannot save an Excel file to this file format. Be sure and restart Excel each time you enable an add-in. Note: This format is supported in Excel Starter only.
Let the task in process finish its job before attempting other actions. You cannot open or save files in these file formats. Saves only the active sheet. Give the users full control of share permissions and ntfs security. The Quick repair should take approximately 10 minutes, where the slow one can take up to 30-40 minutes.
Do you have any other solutions? If your issue is resolved after you run Excel in safe mode, see:. And Erik I tried it and still thinks. Now, however, I can not click on it to open directly from the desktop. It has been a few years since I have participated in a newsgroup back when you could use Outlook Express as a reader so I'm still trying to find my way around. If your issue is not resolved after you start Excel in safe mode, continue on to the next item on this list. The next morning I attempted to open this excel file again and it went right back to the same issue.
Look carefully at the relationship between the users any groups they belong to and both the share permissions and ntfs security rights applied to the users and the groups to which they belong. I am the only one within the company who has this issue. I finally got this fixed. Do you know what the. I did notice after I had posted that this was a SharePoint area so I won't make that mistake again. Whichever version is installed last becomes the default version when opening files. I think what I am going to have to do is uninstall 2010 reinstall 2007 and repair some of the files then uninstall 2007 and reinstall 2010.
I know you said before it was fine but it might be worth having a second look. It worked, but is there some professional guidance regarding this? I tested this by creating a workbook and saving it as book1. We are running Windows 7. Use this workaround at your own risk. Do I get a free Microsoft Office 2010 Cert since no one else knew the answer? It is frustrating not being able to use what I think is a good feature.
Saves only the active sheet. I have tracked the problem down to the open with setup. You can turn off Office updates. User has Office 2010 on a Windows 7 machine. Tried right click and associating a file directly but Excel not listed as an option despite being installed.