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How do you change the normal template in excel?
I am having problems with excel opening documents. When I go to the file that
I want to open... say in my documents and I double click on the file, the program itself opens but not the document. Someone told me that my normal template may have been changed. I want to be able to double click on a previously saved document and it open without having to manually go into the file menu after Excel opens to open it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Trasa |
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How do you change the normal template in excel?
First, MSWord has a Normal template (Normal.dot). Excel doesn't.
But that's not usually the solution to the problem you're describing... Sometimes one of these works when you're having trouble with double clicking on the file in windows explorer: Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it) --- or --- Close Excel and Windows Start Button|Run excel /unregserver then Windows Start Button|Run excel /regserver The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's factory defaults. Maybe one of these will work for you. Trasa wrote: I am having problems with excel opening documents. When I go to the file that I want to open... say in my documents and I double click on the file, the program itself opens but not the document. Someone told me that my normal template may have been changed. I want to be able to double click on a previously saved document and it open without having to manually go into the file menu after Excel opens to open it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Trasa -- Dave Peterson |
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How do you change the normal template in excel?
Trasa
Forget what "someone" said about a normal template. Try the usual fix(es) for this problem. ToolsOptionsGeneral uncheck "Ignore other Applications" Exit Excel and try again If this doesn't work try to re-register Excel Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar 1) StartRun "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)OK. 2) 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"(no quotes)OK. Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:26:29 -0800, Trasa wrote: I am having problems with excel opening documents. When I go to the file that I want to open... say in my documents and I double click on the file, the program itself opens but not the document. Someone told me that my normal template may have been changed. I want to be able to double click on a previously saved document and it open without having to manually go into the file menu after Excel opens to open it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Trasa |
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