You might have Ignore Other Applications set under Tools, Options, General.

--
Jim Rech
Excel MVP
"Ada" wrote in message
...
| Normally, we can open a Excel file in the windows explorer with double
| clicks, but I can't. It only opens Excel tool bars without the file. So I
use
| open file ircon, then file is opened. Please tell me why or there is some
| matter in my excel program. Thanks a lot!
|