Once you make the change via the explorer shell, you have to edit the
registry setting to revert it back to the way it was. This is per a MS
article, not just me.

This is the key name you need to go to to remove the "%1"

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\New\command

By the way, if you didn't use the quotes in the command line you'll get
"file not found errors."

jiveformation;1494900 Wrote:
Hi Wavelength1550,

Try this:

'You receive a "File Not Found" error message in Excel when you
open a file by double-clicking the file name'
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/207574)

Cheers.


"Wavelength1550" wrote:


rcleary,
I did the steps you listed and it has created other, bigger problems
for me. I can't edit the "%1" back out of the command line, it keeps
reappearing no matter what I do to it. Do you know how to reverse
these
steps??


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