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Excel is opening new instances when it shouldn't
A week or so ago I did *something* that has messed with my settings/config.
Now, with Excel ALREADY open, double clicking a file from Windows Explorer causes a new Excel instance to start. Ditto when opening a mail attachment. Other Office apps appear to be unaffected. What's the solution? Anybody? Anybody? Beuhler? |
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Excel is opening new instances when it shouldn't
In Options make sure "ignore other applications that use DDE" is unchecked.
If no joy with that................ I would suggest you re-register Excel Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK. See the space between exe and /regserver You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe. In that case StartRun "C:\yourpath\excel.exe" /regserver(quotes required)OK Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:14:01 -0800, Duke Carey wrote: A week or so ago I did *something* that has messed with my settings/config. Now, with Excel ALREADY open, double clicking a file from Windows Explorer causes a new Excel instance to start. Ditto when opening a mail attachment. Other Office apps appear to be unaffected. What's the solution? Anybody? Anybody? Beuhler? |
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Excel is opening new instances when it shouldn't
Gord - the DDE option was the issue. Somebody's add-in that I was trying to
test crashed Excel pretty hard. I suspect that was the villain. Thanks. "Gord Dibben" wrote: In Options make sure "ignore other applications that use DDE" is unchecked. If no joy with that................ I would suggest you re-register Excel Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK. See the space between exe and /regserver You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe. In that case StartRun "C:\yourpath\excel.exe" /regserver(quotes required)OK Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:14:01 -0800, Duke Carey wrote: A week or so ago I did *something* that has messed with my settings/config. Now, with Excel ALREADY open, double clicking a file from Windows Explorer causes a new Excel instance to start. Ditto when opening a mail attachment. Other Office apps appear to be unaffected. What's the solution? Anybody? Anybody? Beuhler? . |
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Excel is opening new instances when it shouldn't
Good to hear you're sorted out.
Gord On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:38:01 -0800, Duke Carey wrote: Gord - the DDE option was the issue. Somebody's add-in that I was trying to test crashed Excel pretty hard. I suspect that was the villain. Thanks. "Gord Dibben" wrote: In Options make sure "ignore other applications that use DDE" is unchecked. If no joy with that................ I would suggest you re-register Excel Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar StartRun "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes)OK. See the space between exe and /regserver You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe. In that case StartRun "C:\yourpath\excel.exe" /regserver(quotes required)OK Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:14:01 -0800, Duke Carey wrote: A week or so ago I did *something* that has messed with my settings/config. Now, with Excel ALREADY open, double clicking a file from Windows Explorer causes a new Excel instance to start. Ditto when opening a mail attachment. Other Office apps appear to be unaffected. What's the solution? Anybody? Anybody? Beuhler? . |
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