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Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 7/17/2006 3:00 PM
thanks, you helped me out. it was killing me opening everything up through excel

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 8/3/2006 8:39 AM
Thanks...worked perfectly.

Bfoster	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 10/13/2006 9:05 AM
Thanks for the fix, I looked for about an hour before I found this fix. It worked great.

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 10/31/2006 5:48 AM
Thanks for the fix. I already tried reinstalling office and anti virus before which dit not help.

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 11/1/2006 12:58 PM
Cool, i usually only trust microsoft.com for support issues but did not see resolution to this problem, now i trust you too - thank you!

jamiro	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 11/6/2006 11:00 AM
Thanks,Thanks,Thanks,Thanks,Thanks,Thanks,Thanks,

Lhlalyam	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 1/31/2007 11:04 AM
Thanks for the tip... i did like a 1 minute search in regards to this problem and yours was the first to come up. When through the steps and it was fixed... many thank you's!

Marcus	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 2/2/2007 12:07 PM
Thank you! I had totally forgotten that I selected that option in an effort to keep Excel from reverting to the R1C1 reference style (hey, it's right under it, so why not)?

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 2/7/2007 11:26 AM
Wasn't getting error message, but wasn't getting my workbooks through DDE either. Clicked option to turn it ON. DDE now works, and options tab for some reason shows that box as CLEARED!

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 6/26/2007 7:46 PM
Thanks for your help. It worked. Not sure how we lived with Internet!!!

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 8/13/2007 5:08 AM
go to: explorer->tools->folder options->file types->XLS->advanced->open->edit then uncheck "Use DDE"

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 8/13/2007 5:10 AM
and make sure you have the quotes: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e "%1"

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 8/31/2007 7:32 AM
Need help! My settings are as you said they should be for excel 2007. but when i dbl-click an excel file it wont open the spread sheet. But if i minimize and maximize the window, or open the excel options and then cancel out of it, the spread sheet magically loads. How can i fix this so i dont have to keep maximizing and minimizing etc. to get a worksheet to open after i've double clicked it!?

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 9/4/2007 2:16 PM
Thanks a lot...its really very helpfull

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 9/25/2007 8:57 AM
Re the question on 8/31. I had the same problem of the worksheet not opening, or working, until the close or max or min buttons were clicked. It turned out that the quotes had disappeared from around the "%1" in command line as mentioned above. Added the quotes and all seems to be fine now.

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 10/9/2007 1:38 PM
Perfect. Thank you!

Sarah	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 10/20/2007 5:09 PM
This was great, I tried Microsoft.com and couldn't get an answer, thanks for your help.

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 11/5/2007 4:31 AM
Excellent work, keep it up

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 11/29/2007 11:09 AM
Likewise, I have same problem with not opening a worksheet or workbook until I minimize Excel, then I find the desired worksheet/workbook beneath. I tried to follow the tip from 8-13 above but cannot find the folder option after tools step. go to: explorer->tools->folder options->file types->XLS->advanced->open->edit then uncheck "Use DDE" - Can anybody help?

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 11/29/2007 11:28 AM
Ooops, False Alarm - I just figured out the information from 8-13 was talking about Windows Explorer - not Internet Explorer! Once I figured that out, the rest made sense and the edits suggested worked like a charm. I actually had to add the quotes and the %1, (enclosed in quotes, for it to work. That fixed the problem and it works like a champ now!! Many, many thanks to the contributors. Great Facility to share information and to help others!!!

Andy	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 12/10/2007 6:55 PM
The single most useful computer advice I have ever recieved...simple and effective. THANKS

OzTom	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 12/20/2007 11:57 AM
"%1" did the trick for me! Great help!

Dimitris	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 1/31/2008 2:31 AM
Yeah. That was. Thanks a lot

DP	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 2/6/2008 9:09 AM
Ditto on 90% of what everyone else found here. Worked as advertised.....Much Appreciated

Shehzad	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 3/17/2008 3:50 AM
Worked a wonder. Thank you

Jonathan Salzedo	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 3/25/2008 10:11 PM
Yes, it worked. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out this one. Thanks very much for posting the solution.

sam	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 4/7/2008 11:36 PM
thanx mate , it was so helpful , solved the problem less than a min which could have been ages, thanx a lot again

Jim	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 4/29/2008 5:42 AM
Thank you you saved me alot of hair

Tom	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 5/4/2008 6:34 PM
Thanks! Solve the problem;

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 5/12/2008 12:02 PM
Thank you very much!! It worked perfectly!

syso	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 5/16/2008 7:06 AM
Thanks A Lot

Graham	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 5/21/2008 5:02 AM
One to remember. Hours saved from having to reinstall

Alex	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 6/25/2008 1:32 AM
thank you for your help. It works and save alot of my time.

Donna	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 9/10/2008 10:16 AM
Thanks so much. It was such a nuisance to have to minimize and maximize to load the files. The "%1" was missing in the Office12/excel.exe line.

Tochi	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 9/23/2008 7:39 AM
I have this problem before and it crops again in one of our user. This really saves me time. Thanks so much!

Scar	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 9/25/2008 6:39 AM
Solved, thx. Never heard of this feature anyway: I'm wondering how it turned on as I didn't mess up with excel settings lately.

unclerob	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 9/28/2008 5:42 PM
Spent hours on other sites trying to fix this. Wished I had found your link first. Worked like a charm. Thanks much.

Anonymous User	Report As Irrelevant
Written: 10/10/2008 2:37 AM
Thank you very much. Was killing me dragging everything...:)