See the article:
http://www.officearticles.com/excel/...soft_excel.htm

Specifically:
"This is often caused by one stupid setting. It's under Tools--Options,
General tab. Make sure that Ignore Other Applications is not checked."
--
~Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com


"Vasil Ivanov" wrote:

When I double click an excel file, the Excel application starts but without
loading the workbook I double clicked. Then I can open my file from the menu
or with drag'n'drop. Can somebody tell me what kind of weird option have I
checked?
I guess I has to do something with Excel settings, but I couldn't figure it
out.