Platform: Windows XP SP2, Excel 2007
Problem description: Upon clicking on a file in Windows Explorer (file is either .xls or .xlsx) Excel 2007 opens, but does not open the file itself. I need either to click on a file again in Windows Explorer or open it manually with File/Open … from Excel.
Does anyone know what could cause this rather strange behaviour ?
The old versions of Excel worked «normally» … i.e. upon clicking on a file, an Excel would open along with the file.
Please, help !
asked May 21, 2010 at 14:37
It sounds like the file association is broken. Normally a file association string would pass in the value for the current file as a parameter, effectively saying «start application X and open file foo.bar»
A repair of the Office install should fix this, or you could try right click > open with > browse to Excel.exe and tick the box for «always open with this program».
If you edit your tags or question to tell us what operating system you are using, we can give you more specific step-by-step instructions on these options.
answered Jul 31, 2010 at 9:26
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Click the big round button at the top left, click Excel Options
at the bottom of the dialog that appears. Then go to Advanced
-> scroll down to General
and uncheck Ignore other applications that us Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
answered May 21, 2010 at 14:48
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Right click & open with Internet Explorer. It will be redirected to the Excel program and the file should open.
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My solution was to check View and hit Unhide
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I need some assistance with Excel files not opening for a user. We have tried multiple files, and they all open Excel to a blue/gray screen. If you go to File>Open, the file will then load into Excel. This is only for one user. I am able to open the files fine on my device, and other users can open the files also. The other users use a Citrix connection, and have a published desktop. I did do research on this issue. The fixes that I have seen are all application fixes. I don’t think this would be a correct fix, since it is only one user with the issue. The user with the issue is a Citrix user, and I have tested files can open in Citrix, and not on Citrix. Below are fixes that I have found.
Click on Start > Control Panel > folder Options > File types.
Select XLSX file type extension and click on Advanced.
Highlight Open under actions and click Edit.
In the dialog box that appears you need to make two adjustments:
1. Application to perform action:
At the end of the line after /e append a space character followed by «%1» (including the quotes)
2.Delete [open(«%1»)] from DDE message, [rem see command line] and from DDE application not running.
Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver
The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets some of the windows registry to
excel’s factory defaults.
Check to make sure that .xls opens with Excel.
And of course, uninstall and reinstall Office.
Thanks to all that read, and any help with this would be great.
Neil
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I have a user who has Office 2007. Her Excel will not open .xls files when she doubleclicks on them, be it on the desktop, in a folder or from outlook mail messages. However, when she maps to it with File >>> Open >>> dig down to file
>>> x.Xls, then the file opens. What is causing the doubleclick not to work, and what can I do about it so it does?
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Hi,
We can change the file association of the Excel file. Please right-click the Excel file and choose
Properties. Click the Change button and choose
Microsoft Office Excel. Also check the box before:
Always use the selected program to open this kind of file.If the problem persists, try the methods below to resolve the issue:
Method 1: Enable the
Ignore Other Applications that use DDE feature===================
1.
Click the Office button an then click
Excel Options. Excel displays the Excel Options dialog box.2.
Click
Advanced at the left side of the dialog box.3.
In the
General section, make sure the Ignore Other Applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) check box is selected.4.
Click on
OK.If you still cannot double-click on a workbook to open it, try these steps:
Method 2:
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1.
Close Excel completely.2.
Open a My Computer window.3.
Choose
Tool | Folder Options. You should see the Folder Options dialog box.
Note: If you are Windows Vista, click Start > Search, type Folder Options and search it.
4.
Make sure the File Types tab is displayed.(Note: This option is not available in Windows 7.)
5.
In the list of registered file types, find and select the entry for
XLS (Microsoft Excel Worksheet).6.
Depending on your version of Windows, click on either the Edit or the
Advanced button. You should see the Edit File Type dialog box.7.
In the list of actions, choose
Open.8.
Click the
Edit button. Windows displays the Editing Action dialog box.9.
The Application Used to Perform Action box contains the actual command line used to start Word. Double-check the line to make sure there are no strange extra filenames at the
end of the command line.10.
Make sure the
Use DDE check box is selected, and that the DDE Message box is set to the following: [open(«%1»)]11.
Click on
OK.12.
Close all the other open dialog boxes.Please take your time to try the suggestions and let me know the results at your earliest convenience. If anything is unclear or if there is anything I can do for
you, please feel free to let me know.Best Regards,
Sally Tang
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Here’s the issue (it has compunded) with a little more background.
User’s machine is a vista machine with Office 2007 installed. Her settings were already set as you described in your post.
She is part of a domain, and has a shared drive (H:) that connects to a Windows Server 2008 with Service pack 2. If I open a .xls file from her computer, then it opens the excel program and window, but the worksheet does not load (so I have the grey background,
and no spreadsheet). This is with the aforementioned settings set as you recommend. However, if I open the same .xls file from the server, it opens in Excel 2007 just fine with compatibility mode.Then we had a new issue. Trying to click on a file to open it in this H: drive, I would get a file not found. Let’s say the file was «doing the math.xls». Trying to open it would come pack with «doing the math.xlsx not found,» and Excel would also kick errors
from trying to open doing.xls, the.xls, and math.xls. Note it trying to find the .xls file as a .xlsx. I reinstalled office from add/remove programs and this issue went away. However, when I checked folder options on the H: drive from the Vista computer, At
number six of option two, there was no advances button, only a repair button, because file types had «custom modifications.» I clicked repair, and started having this new issue again.I can only assume this is a Office 2007/Vista/Server2008 combined issue. Thoughts?
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Here’s the issue (it has compunded) with a little more background.
User’s machine is a vista machine with Office 2007 installed. Her settings were already set as you described in your post.
She is part of a domain, and has a shared drive (H:) that connects to a Windows Server 2008 with Service pack 2. If I open a .xls file from her computer, then it opens the excel program and window, but the worksheet does not load (so I have the
grey background, and no spreadsheet). This is with the aforementioned settings set as you recommend. However, if I open the same .xls file from the server, it opens in Excel 2007 just fine with compatibility mode.Then we had a new issue. Trying to click on a file to open it in this H: drive, I would get a file not found. Let’s say the file was «doing the math.xls». Trying to open it would come pack with «doing the math.xlsx not found,» and Excel would also
kick errors from trying to open doing.xls, the.xls, and math.xls. Note it trying to find the .xls file as a .xlsx. I reinstalled office from add/remove programs and this issue went away. However, when I checked folder options on the H: drive from the Vista
computer, At number six of option two, there was no advances button, only a repair button, because file types had «custom modifications.» I clicked repair, and started having this new issue again.I can only assume this is a Office 2007/Vista/Server2008 combined issue. Thoughts
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Hi,
You can try to help her completely uninstall Office 2007 and then reinstall it.
First, please go to Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features (Add/Remove Program Files), Locate the Office program and uninstall it.
Then, you can try to manually uninstall Office 2007 by the steps below:
1. Download and install the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/9/D/E9D80355-7AB4-45B8-80E8-983A48D5E1BD/msicuu2.exe
2. After you install the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, click
Start -> All Programs -> Windows Install Clean Up.
3. Highlight
Microsoft Office 2007 entry in the list and then click Remove. Quit the Utility.Note: If you have got any other old or redundant office entries such as Office 2003 or other Office standalone
products, such as Visio in the list, please remove them together.4. Close all applications.
5. Click the
“Start” peal, in the Search box, type «regedit» (without the quotation marks) and press
Enter.6. Expand the registry tree on the left pane and locate the following two registry subkeys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftOffice
7. Right-click on this registry subkey and click Delete to delete those keys.
8. Open Windows Explorer, and then browse to the «C:Program Files» folder
If it exists, rename the «Microsoft Office» to «Microsoft Office OLD»
If it exists, rename «OfficeUpdate» to «OfficeUpdateOLD»
If it exists, rename «OfficeUpdate12» to «OfficeUpdate12OLD»
9. Click
Start, in the Search box, type «%Temp%» (without the quotation marks) and press Enter.10. Empty the Temp folder.
Note: If some files can’t be deleted, please skip them, which don’t influence the result of the troubleshooting.
11. Empty the Recycle Bin.
12. Restart your computer.
13. Try to reinstall Office 2007 again.
Regards,
Sally Tang
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The uninstall and reinstall did not help. Of note, after the reinstall, the administrator account has no problem accessing the xls files. The user’s account (which has local admin and domain admin rights) still has the problem. The only differences of
note I see are desktop themes, wallpaper, and the user has a ton of items on her desktop. Longshot, but would any of these cause the issue? -
Same Issue here… but with some differences…
Office 2007 XP Pro SP3… My personal desktop…
file won’t open by double click…
Excel opens on the double click of the file but the file doesn’t load.. Other Desktops with Win7 & Office 2007 load this file fine.. so I’m sure its not the server but the local machine.
Could be :
An Office Update that lost only part of association
MY FIX
DDE Settings (have a tweak to allow Separate window for each instance of an excel workbook)(basically this tweak) http://blog.drewery.net/2006/08/29/utilising-dual-monitors-with-microsoft-excel-2003/
In my case the xlsx said «Restore» Instead of «Advanced»
XLS Was fine but hadn’t tested any xls files… guess I should have done that..LOL
clicked Restore and it now works…
Think its more related to the association not being perfectly happy even though its properly associated there is that RESTORE needing to be done to get all things happy again..
Re-Install is a waste of time generally and doesn’t resolve the issues 80% of the time… but I usually don’t allow this much time to research a solution to such a minor issue either…
Just usually would say re-image / Re-Install who machine after testing All Hardware / drives / memory for issues… (My Install is now almost a year old so I’m sure its due anyway!!!)
Hopefully that little bit helps…
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no joy with any of the above
i spent the morning trying to locate an answer for this across the interweb
i have 3 xp workstation’s i upgraded from office 2000 to 2007 this week
i simply cannot grasp why 3 years after product release there still isnt a patch or solid solution to this
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We are having the same issue at my office — shared Excel files are not opening. I don’t get an error — just a grey screen where my spreadsheet should be. After about 10 or 20 minutes of trying to load it and closing and opening the document, sometimes it
will finally open. Usually, it waits until I call the IT over to open for me. I have read some forums online that suggest it may be a firewall issue. That seems to fix my problem for now. Good luck, I have yet to find a solid solution.We all recently upgraded to 2007 also, and that seems to be the common culprit here.
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One Windows XP system in our office has the same problem reported by others in this thread. It started just a few days ago, having been noticed when the user tried to open an excel attachment in Lotus Notes. I tried opening files from windows
explorer and found the same problem; Excel opens without opening the file. I tried doing a repair and then an uninstall and reinstall. Neither has worked. When I tried opening an Excel attachment after the reinstall it gave an error
message saying it couldn’t find the file, something that hadn’t happened before.
Robert Szejn
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Has anyone resolved this problem with Excel 2007 running on Windows 7 Pro (64)? This has become quite a pain. I’ve run repair, checked the DDE settings, checked file/program association, reinstalled Office 2007 (clean), disabled/enabled Add-Ins individually
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I am having the same problem. Windows XP, Excel 2007, and this started happening a couple days ago. The only thing I can think of that changed in that time span is that there was a Windows Update install…
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Same problem for me.
Windows XP,
Office 2007.
Problem currently occuring when I try to open a «.xls» file when I already have some other (.csv, .xlsx, or .xls) file open.
Work around: Close all Excel windows.
Double click the .xls file. It opens quickly w/o any issue.
Irritating.
How to fix?
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I have the same issue with three computers. All Hp Elitebooks, All Office 2010, OS win 7 Pro (32).
I try to open a .xls from a website that our company frequents it opens Excel then gives me the Grey screen. I am pullin my hair out. Everytime I think I have a fix I get the Grey screen. Kinda like gettin the big Flippin Bird. The only way to get it to
open is to save it and then File>Open> Etc. Etc. then all is well. Has there been any fixs for this yet?Sincerely,
Goin bald fast
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I have the same issue with three computers. All Hp Elitebooks, All Office 2010, OS win 7 Pro (32).
I try to open a .xls from a website that our company frequents it opens Excel then gives me the Grey screen. I am pullin my hair out. Everytime I think I have a fix I get the Grey screen. Kinda like gettin the big Flippin Bird. The only way to get it to
open is to save it and then File>Open> Etc. Etc. then all is well. Has there been any fixs for this yet?Sincerely,
Goin bald fast
My solution was to create new user profiles. It’s a pain but took less time than all the research I did.
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I had the same issue here and was able to fix without creating new user profiles. In my case, I deleted the Excel registry keys for the user under: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0Excel <— Close all Excel windows and delete this
entire folder. The workbook opens OK after this.Josh
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That’s worked for me. Cheers.
Bil
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I have searched, and searched, and searched across the internet for hours and hours. This solution WORKS, finally. Don’t waste your time with adding the «%1» and messing with the DDE setting like you will read in most of the posts. This is a very simple
and quick fix, and best of all IT WORKS!!!!!!!THANK YOU JOSH……
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I have this problem as well — any clues appreciated.
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I have a user who has Office 2007. Her Excel will not open .xls files when she doubleclicks on them, be it on the desktop, in a folder or from outlook mail messages. However, when she maps to it with File >>> Open >>> dig down
to file >>> x.Xls, then the file opens. What is causing the doubleclick not to work, and what can I do about it so it does?I also have this problem and would appreciate a fix.
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Thanks a lot SALLY. The procedure given by you is awesome.When i lost all the hopes.You came as a lifeline for me.
YOU ROCK…..yipppeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Stop looking. Josh’s solution works perfectly and can be done in less than a minute.
I backed up the registry just in case (might take around a minute or so) and renamed the key from «..14.0Excel» to «..14.0Excel1». Once you open a file, the key gets recreated correctly and you can see what the changes are.
Thanks JOSH
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Has anyone tried this one 2010?? I tried renaming the registry key and it recreated it but no worksheet at all.
Currently using WinXP SP3 with Office 2010.
Any help appreciated!!
Saludos!
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Your solution works great Sally! thank you!
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I tried your solutions, there is no Guarantee I did it right, And no dice. When I try the double click thing it says file is not a «win32 file.» I was able to open the document by «mapping» to it, if that is the right term. So at least i am not dead
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This worked for me. Good post Josh.
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Thank you Josh.
It worked perfectly for me as well.
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Thanks Josh for your fix on the Excel issue. I was getting ready remove and reinstall until I came to your solution. What would have taken an hour, only took 2 mins. The nice thing about delting that folder in the registry is it recreated
itself once I opened Excel by double-clicking on a spreadsheet.Roy
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Josh,
I see here that your solution works…….How exactly do you do this? Where do I find and delete these keys? I see the code but don’t know where to go from there…..THX for any help you may give.
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Roy,
I see here that your solution worked for you…….How exactly do you do this? Where do I find and delete
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I see here that your solution worked for you…….How exactly do you do this? Where do I find and
delete these keys? I see the code but don’t know where to go from there…..THX for any help you may give. -
I see here that your solution worked for you…….How exactly do you do this? Where do I find and delete
these keys? I see the code but don’t know where to go from there…..THX for any help you may give. -
I see here that your solution worked for you…….How exactly do you do this? Where do I find and
delete these keys? I see the code but don’t know where to go from there…..THX for any help you may give. -
I see here that your solution worked for you…….How exactly do you do this? Where do I find and
delete these keys? I see the code but don’t know where to go from there…..THX for any help you may give. -
I had the same issue here and was able to fix without creating new user profiles. In my case, I deleted the Excel registry keys for the user under: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0Excel <— Close all Excel windows and delete this
entire folder. The workbook opens OK after this.Josh
this is a VERY quick and easy fix!!! thanks!
note that i had to delete the ‘entire Excel’ folder. (deleting the keys inside Excel folder wont do the trick)GL
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I had the same issue here and was able to fix without creating new user profiles. In my case, I deleted the Excel registry keys for the user under: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0Excel <— Close all Excel windows and delete this
entire folder. The workbook opens OK after this.Josh
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Josh — you rock! Kinda obvious really (suprised the MS sponsored person didnt know that trick!) but that is in hindsight…. Thanks mate.
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That’s the ticket. Thanks Josh!
UPDATE: Josh’s solution worked, but then Excel started to white screen regularly for up to 2 minutes after doing his solution. I tried detect and repair, no luck. I tried excel/unregserver then excel/regserver. When I did excel/regserver, I got a message
«One of your object libraries (stdole32.tlb) is missing or damaged. Please run setup to install it. Then I completely reinstalled Microsoft Office. This did not help. Then I ran system file checker and that seemed to find problematical system files,
as it asked for the Windows XP CD. Hopefullly this will work.UPDATE 2: That did not work either. I should say that this is a restricted profile on XP that has the problem, not an Administrator account. No idea what to do now.
UPDATE 3: I did excel/unregserver then excel/regserver again, after running system file checker. This seems to have solved the problem.
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hi josh,
I am using windows 7 and office 2010. I did the same thing but the problem persists. i also did the excel/unregserver and etc etc but nothing happened.
have you any other solution for that.
Thanks
Arvind Chouhan
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Josh has nailed it. Probably the registry entry is corrupt. Solution: delete the corrupt registry key.
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0Excel
For me the Excel key was in
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0Excel
This is probably safe to do if you are not a total newbie to registry keys. My machine is a corporte box and I can always get it reimaged if I screw it up. Here are some slightly more detailed instructions for those with a burning desire to get
Excel working fast.1. Verify you have this problem: Excel spreadsheets no longer open when you double click them, instead Excel opens with a blank screen. I also got an error message.
2. Close all Excel windows and files.
3. Go to command mode. (This depends on your Start profile, but look for the «Run» link on the start screen. You can probably also do this from the «Search» box on the Start menu) Type CMD in the box and press enter. At
the command prompt type «REGEDIT». A cautious person makes a backup copy of the registry at this time (Hint: Export the Registry-Google it, there are lots of tutorials).5. Look for the HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0Excel key and delete it.
6. Exit and test
Like I said, I found the Excel key in HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0Excel so you may have to hunt around a little, depending on the MS OFfice installation history on your computer. I would delete the last one, if there was more
than one but YMMV.This is not a file association issue. My HD is almost full so I think that is probably the cause of the corruption but there are lots of reasons a registry entry can get corrupted.
LK
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While I understand why this worked, as a general rule, I dislike brute force fixes like this, as they can have unintended side effects, similar to what numcrun experienced above. I recently had this same issue occur and came across this post but
after doing some additional testing, I was able to narrow it down to the «Options» key under HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0ExcelOptions.My Options key was set to 0x00000017. When I either deleted that key (not recommended) or changed it to 0x00000057 (recommended), which is the value other users in my area had for that key, I was once again able to open Excel files by double-clicking.
There is only a single bit difference between these values and clearing that bit is apparently what causes the problem. I searched online to try to get a better understanding of the values for the Options key but was not able to find anything.
Nevertheless, correcting this single key is much safer than deleting the entire Excel branch and does not require you to reset any previous Excel defaults you may have had set.To keep whatever options you currently have and only set this one bit, convert your current value to binary, set the second bit (counting left to right; other people may count it differently so look at the example below), and convert it back to
hex. For example using the values I noted above:- Converting 17 hex to binary = 0001 0111
- Setting the second bit = 0101 0111
- Converting that back to hex = 57
Hope this helps!
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So far People have created new User accounts and roughed up their Registry, Re-installed Office and Excel but did anyone actually figure out the real soultion to this Problem Yet I had the issue with one Account on a Win7 Pc with a 2.8Ghz Intel and 16gb
Ram Not that my PC Specs matter. Anyway 1 out of 4 Accounts could not Open Word Documents via Double Click. Every time it would Error Out. The Issus is with
Security Not the Registry
or some Convuluted in-depth Coding STUFF. When your Error Message comes up you get the option to «Change how often these messages Apear»Change it!!! DUH!!!
Your current setting there is preventing Office from opening a file so if you make it a little more leiniant you’ve fixed the problem. Now I know I’m sounding Pompous but I went through this many times and found this solution by accident 4 times already
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I have got the same problem recently on my Windows 10 (Fall Creators Update). I researched that solution when trying to force MS Office 2007 to use Cleartype. As I said I have Windows 10 with globally disabled Cleartype (I set Tahoma and MS Sans Serif as
main fonts in Windows), but I still have need Cleartype in MS Excel. The solution to force Cleartype in Excel 2007 is to set compatibility mode to «Windows XP SP3» for C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice12EXCEL.exe, but this resulted
in broken double-click xls/xlsx files opening, and there is a fix that works for me:1. open regedit path HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTExcel.Sheet.12shellOpencommand
(that path is responsible for opening .xlsx files)
2. select the value named «(Default)», select «Edit/Modify» from the pull-down menu, erase
/dde argument and add «%1» argument, but don’t touch any other arguments such as
/e or /n or /x, etc. Thus your value will become look like:«C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice12EXCEL.EXE» /e «%1»
(path, MS Office version number and arguments may vary)
3. if you see value named «command» under the value named «(Default)», please, delete value named «command» (it contains ugly string like
vUpAV8!!!!!!!!!MKKSkEXCELFiles>tW{~$4Q]c@II=l2xaTO5, so you can’t miss it if it exists)4. now go to path HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTExcel.Sheet.12shellNewcommand
(that path is responsible for opening duplicate of the selected
.xlsx file via right-click menu)5. repeat steps 2 and 3 for this path
6. now go to path HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTExcel.Sheet.8shellOpencommand
(that path is responsible for opening old .xls files)
5. repeat steps 2 and 3 for this path
6. now go to path HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTExcel.Sheet.8shellNewcommand
(that path is responsible for opening duplicate of the selected
.xls file via right-click menu)7. repeat steps 2 and 3 for this path
8. if you want you can repeat the steps for Word files’ formats:
docx: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTWord.Document.12shellOpencommand
doc: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTWord.Document.8shellOpencommand
rtf: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTWord.RTF.8shellOpencommand
and so on… You can find paths for other files’ types in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. For example to know
.dotm (MS Word macros document file) path you need to go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.dotm and see «Word.TemplateMacroEnabled.12» value, thus the path you looking for is HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTWord.TemplateMacroEnabled.12shellOpencommand9. Also you can fix «OpenAsReadOnly» commands. Go to path HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*file type*shellOpenAsReadOnly, delete
command value, begin to edit «(Default)» value, remove
/h argument and /dde argument, then add
/r «%1» arguments, save changes. So the string will look likevUpAV8!!!!!!!!!MKKSkEXCELFiles>tW{~$4Q]c@II=l2xaTO5 /e /r «%1»
P.S. Don’t ask me how to fix «Print» command in right-click menu. I don’t know.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018 1:25 PM
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THANK YOU !
This worked but now I’m getting file cannot be found message
PLEASE help !
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Invyl post from Jan 9th & 10th worked for me.
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I just found it was the Act! add-in that caused the problem for me. Excel 2007 on Windows 10 Pro. I suggest disabling active add-ins and then seeing if the problem goes away. You can always reenable the add-in later.
- In Excel, click the Office button.
- Select Excel Options.
- Click Add-Ins.
- At the top of the resulting screen, you will see a section, «Active Application Add-ins». For each add-in:
- Note the «Type» in right column, e.g., «COM Add-In».
- At the bottom of the screen next to «Manage:», select the Type that matches the add-in in the dropdown, then click «Go»
- In the resulting screen, uncheck the add-in. This disables the add-in without removing it.
- Close Excel.
- Double-click your file in Explorer to see if Excel starts and loads that file!
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Thanks a lot Josh,
It helped me,,,,,.
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Meaning of Excel 2007 opens, but the file doesn’t?
Ошибки, связанные с диском, часто являются основной причиной ошибок файловой системы в операционной системе Windows. Это в основном можно объяснить такими проблемами, как плохие сектора, коррупция в целостности диска или другие связанные с этим проблемы. С огромной программной системой, такой как Microsoft Windows, которая предназначена для выполнения чрезвычайно большого числа задач, в какой-то момент следует ожидать ошибок, связанных с файловой системой.
Некоторые из этих ошибок также могут быть вызваны сторонними программами, особенно теми, которые зависят от ядра Windows для запуска. Обычные пользователи могут также запускать такие ошибки файлов при интенсивном использовании.
Causes of Excel 2007 opens, but the file doesn’t?
Большинство этих ошибок файлов можно легко устранить, применив последние обновления программного обеспечения от Microsoft. Однако иногда некоторые типы ошибок могут быть тяжелыми для ремонта.
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До сегодняшнего дня . , , Очень разочаровывающе, но я жил, встречаясь с пустой книгой Excel. документ откроет Excel, но не файл. Внезапно, дважды щелкнув Excel 2007 с ним. , ,
В любом случае, я был бы в своем документе, который затем откроет его. Если я затем выбрал «Файл», «Открыть» и «Просмотреть»
Excel 2007 открывается, но не файл
Проблема, которую я испытываю, заключается в том, что каждый раз, когда я открываю excel, нажмите «Дополнительно», а затем убедитесь, что файл открывается Excel; однако я должен перейти к местоположению файла.
I installed «Ignore other applications» check box is not selected. Regards,
Rollin
И нажмите «Параметры Excel».
Есть идеи?
Нажмите Microsoft Office Excel 2007.
Решено: макрос Excel 2003 не запускается в Excel 2007 — запрошенная помощь
отображается следующее сообщение об ошибке:
«Ошибка времени выполнения ‘445’:
Object doesn’t support this action. Now, under Excel 2007 it does not run anymore but time but could not find anything which worked.
I�m using Windows 7 and I used a macro which worked totally fine under Excel 2003.
When I click on «Debug» the Visual Basic Editor highlights the I’ve searched for a solution for a long row which says: Set FilSrch = Application.FileSearch
ты можешь помочь мне с этим?
офис 2007 excel открывается в безопасном режиме
Iv проверьте мое соединение и установили офис 2007. Вы также можете открыть
C:Documents and Settiing»Your it does not do this. The Excel Folder will have a
subfolder called XLSTART, if there are any files in that folder, delete them.
Its been fine they opened excel it opens only in safe mode.
But then the other day users kept saying when profile/logon name»ApplicationsMicrosoft
and look for the Excel folder. Anyone got any ideas
Could be caused by an Excel Add-in. You might want to use the Office Button->Excel
Options->Add-ins and start disabling add-ins one at for many years.
i have a rdp server a time to figure out if
one of the active Add-ins is causing the problem.
Excel 2010 — Excel открывает пустое нажатие на один файл
None of my other highlight it and it does not open Excel. The problem is clearly not a «tiled window» or functions are greyed out. I can click on it once to «try» to open when I single click.
If so, turn it off and you should be just get a blank grey screen. I copied all the tabs to «window offscreen» problem — there is no file open. If I go to File—>Options, i XLSX files act this way. It seems that these two files have some kind of trigger property that works normally, i.e.
I double click and it opens. This sheet problem is somehow linked to password protection. Do you have the «preview pane» on? All the Excel open, I can then open any file.
ОБНОВЛЕНИЕ: Дальнейшие эксперименты показывают, что это поведение меняется на описанное выше.
Most of my Excel files open starts Excel with one-click, but I can’t find how to change that property. I have two XLSX files however, that fine with a doubleclick from Windows Explorer. If I go to file —> a new sheet and saved as XLSX.
Но как только я защищу его пароль, вы сможете правильно просматривать защищенные паролем документы.
Макрос Excel 2003 не запускается под Excel 2007
worked totally fine under Excel 2003. Searching for filesearch replacement turns up lots of hits with various workarounds, such as this:http://groups.google.com/group/micr…Click Here Before Posting Data or VBA Code —> How To Post Data or Code. I used a macro which
Файл Excel 97 открывается только из открытого окна Excel. Помогите!
Файл не содержит кода VB, и никакие надстройки не загружаются. идеи?
Здравствуйте,
На ПК в нашем офисе есть это. Это работало, пока я не переместил старый файл из «Мои документы и Excel» и не использовал команду «Открыть» и не нашел их.
If I save the file to disk and try running it from renamed the new file «Cold Repairs», upon doing so, the same errors occurred again. The files are stored in the number of Excel 97 files which have a problem. I also tried copying all the data My Documents folder on a W95 machine. These files can only be opened by starting another PC, it says «file may be read only», which it is not.
Любые Cheers,
Грамм
из файла в новый файл.
Excel открывает файл 2nd
I’m sure it’s just a setting I’m in advance. Later,
Oldmanlat NJ
слишком,
but why is this happening? overkooking, but I can’t figure it out. I’m using Office Home
Здравствуй.
Thanks close Excel, it doesn’t completely close, there’s a second blank Excel page open. When I open an Excel file (.xlsx) everything is fine, but when I and Student 2007 on XP. I can just exit that
Открытие файла Excel 2000 в Excel 2007
Компьютеры — это бренд. Он быстро реагирует в Excel 2000, но когда я новичок Core 2 Duos.
У меня есть документ, созданный в решении этого для использования в 2007? Есть ли способ Excel 2000 со многими сортируемыми строками.
Взгляните на него в Excel 2007, это очень, очень медленно. Благодаря!
фильтры затем повторно добавить?
Файл Excel 2010 не открывается в excel 2007
Wasn’t there a change in be saved in a different format. I would be no effect on this file whatsoever. the New and Open options are available but all the other options are greyed out. Regards
Flynne
Нужно ли по умолчанию использовать значение по умолчанию?
Использование опции open При попытке открыть этот файл ничего не происходит, но при нажатии кнопки офиса благодарны за любые предложения.
Ошибка открытия старого файла excel в excel 2007
В конце концов, после принятия всех сообщений об ошибках, я укажу местонахождение файла, я получаю сообщение об ошибке.
Привет, я не могу найти определенные файлы. Я получаю сообщения об ошибках, содержащие файл excel 2007, в excel 2007. Если я попробую открыть pre, мне будет разрешен просмотр моего документа.
В значительной степени для каждого пространства в следующей задаче.
Excel: файл открывается при запуске
Извините … ваш вопрос был действительно не связан с вашим условным вопросом форматирования, который никогда не знал об этом
Actually I have nother question. Any ideas on how is opening a file I previously used on start up. Please check your XLSTART don’t mind! Hope you folder, as described here:
http://www.theofficeexperts.com/excel.htm#StartupFolders
Вау, все эти годы, используя Excel и я, чтобы остановить это
Привет, Тидус. Это никогда не случалось раньше, но теперь мой Excel XP здесь:
http://forums.techguy.org/t167265/sc3efe4f7dd56bc97947ed8158aa74936.html
I’d rather this be a new question for search purposes later.
ACCESS 2007: Как я могу контролировать, какое приложение открывает файл изображения гиперссылки?
I’d like for them
для открытия с помощью приложения по своему выбору (в этом случае Windows Picture and Fax
Телезритель). Большое спасибо!
Sharon, welcome to the Forum. I don’t know where in Access
I can jpeg files to open using the «Windows Picture and Fax Viewer»? Normally in Access it uses the Program that is the default change the app which opens the images within Access.
Все это на моем локальном настольном ПК (файлы не должны быть гиперссылками
в таблицу базы данных Access 2007. Вы использовали панель управления для установки jpg и серверов или администратора
персонал, кроме меня, участвовал в настройках). Когда я нажимаю на изображения в этой папке,
они устанавливаются для типа файла или программы, которая его создала.
The OS is to open using the «Windows Picture and Fax Viewer» app by
по умолчанию.
У меня есть назначенная папка, в которой хранится доступ к jpeg image Access,
they open using the app «Windows Internet Explorer» (IE). However, when I click on the hyperlinked jpeg image within Microsoft
Windows XP.
Excel 2007 Thesaurus Doesn’t Work
Благодаря,
Gina
bug or is there a fix? I work on a network using XP, haven’t tried this yet on but has no functionality. Most of the time I work in Word; sometimes on Microsoft site. The thesaurus doesn’t
Is this just some Excel ’07 work in Excel. The thing pops up I get assignments returned to me for editing in Excel. Found nothing
Здравствуйте,
I’m an editor for my notebook (Vista) so don’t know if the operating system is a problem.
an online media company.
Сообщения об ошибках Excel, но файл в любом случае открывается
I’m about to my Excel documents a few weeks ago. Any all of its data intact and I don’t have any problems working or saving. If I just «OK» all of the error messages, the document will open with
Спасибо за идеи?
Привет, сообщение для правильного. Мой Нортон много. антивирус является актуальным. Ура!
I haven’t installed any new hardware or run Spybot again. I even get an error there. I started having a problem with software (at least I don’t remember adding any).
Файл PPS, полученный по электронной почте .. открывается, но не воспроизводится ???
Это что-то на моем компьютере или, может быть, его ??
НИЧЕГО
Although I haven’t received any but both times the same thing happens…. It is supposed to contain a song and I might be going wrong? He has sent it to me twice, assume that the picture is supposed to be animated.
Любые идеи о том, какие файлы pps в последнее время, последние, которые я сделал, работали нормально.
Друг прислал мне файл pps (как приложение), но когда я открываю его, я получаю неподвижное изображение.
Excel 2007 doesn’t work properly with windows 7
Привет, Бен,
Welcome settings remained. I did not have this problem with small files and running on a 8Gb machine
Anyone else having the same issues? I had a prob with Outlook 2007 using control, they aren’t highlighted. Hope the jumplists on the pinned icons.
All other Only thing I lost were to Seven Forums. When you select multiple cells, this helps. I also have issues with excel crashing all the time, even on relatively excel now I’m using windows 7.
Гэри
Excel 2007 when I used it in 7. First I’d try doing a repair install that required me to reinstall the entire suite.
I have found several issue on of 2007 to see if that fixes it. If not, I would do an uninstall/reinstall of Excel or maybe the whole suite.
Файл Excel открывается в режиме только для чтения в Win7
мне срочно … Пожалуйста, Справка, которую можно прочитать или скопировать, но не изменить. Почему в выигрыше 7 все из Excel были открыты только для чтения?
Один из вариантов — сделать файл файлом только для чтения,
atuot запускает макрос, когда файл открывается в excel
Macro1 ()
or
Вызовите Macro1
(Я забыл)
Можно также попробовать:
Позвонить
Excel 2007 -Автоматическое обновление данных подфайла в мастер-файл
some updates as the situation. (I have «received» status for one request yesterday. Every day they to Procurement» like this) status will keep changing in all the reportees file. And when I run that it should to create one new master file. Every day these using RDB merge.
Так или иначе, или любой макрос автоматически получает обновления из разных файлов 15 …. До сих пор я могу создать в своем основном файле … Я работаю в частной компании в маркетинговых операциях. Но запрос, который будет показан вчера, будет получен и по этому делу ….
Но каждый день значения будут отправлять обновленный файл. Но каждый день мне нужно постоянно меняться во всех файлах. С Уважением,
Vishwas
быть там и обновлять существующие значения. Дополнения будут там, и удаление будет
Мне нужна помощь в следующем выпуске. (Excel 2007)
I Please help me 15+ reportees. Tomorrow status will become «Sent for manager review» then after manager approval «sent valuse will keep going. For all of them, the format of file is same.
слово и excel Эффект заполнения 2007 не работает
У меня проблема, что в течение нескольких недель я не смог или 3-мерных эффектов активировать. Спасибо, что вы заполняете фигуры цветом, используя эффект заполнения либо словом, либо excel 2007. Нет тени Работа с фигурами — Урок 11
С уважением
Попробуйте это:
Слово 2007: много для вашей помощи.
Are you the one facing the issue Excel opens but the spreadsheet won’t open or a blank screen appears only? Sometimes it happens that the Excel file appears blank with no cells, no column or rows names, and no grid lines.
Do you have any idea why this happens or how to make your Excel back to normal again? Well if not, then keep reading this post you will get an answer to all your queries.
Here in this article, I will give you the best fixes to resolve Excel opens blank or Excel file opens blank grey screen. Moreover, you will also get complete detail about this Excel open blank issue.
Why Is My Excel File Opening Blank?
Excel Opening Blank is a very irritating issue usually faced by the Excel users while trying to open their Excel files. When the users double-click on an Excel file or on the workbook icon, the program starts but a blank screen appears with a white screen or in some cases grey screen instead of the projected file.
Well, even some users are getting the issue by using File > Open > Workbook.
It doesn’t’ matter whether the screen appears grey or white this is very annoying. And Microsoft Support has described that issue arises after installing the security upgrade.
The security updates KB3115322, KB3115262 & KB3170008 in Excel made changes in certain types of files and the way they open. When the users try to open HTML or XLA files with an Excel .xls extension, then the program would caution over detachment between files and contents however opens without Protected View security.
And after installing the security updates, the program won’t open workbooks but show a blank screen, because the files become incompatible with the program’s Protected View feature. There is no warning message appears related to the issue.
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Similar Issues Related To Excel Open Blank Screen Issue:
Excel Opens Blank Grey Screen: While working on Microsoft Excel many users are facing the grey screen issue. This error is faced by the users who updated their system from 2007 or 2010 to Excel 2016. However this is not limited to Excel 2016, Excel 2013 users are also facing the same issue.
Excel Won’t Open White Screen: This is another issue related to the Excel opens blank screen issue. While trying to open Excel files many users are getting the White screen. Well, this issue is particularly faced by the Excel 2016 users on Windows 10 operating system.
These are the two cases faced generally by the users when there Excel files opening blank. If in case your Excel files deny to get open and showing ‘Excel Cannot Open The File ‘(Filename)’.Xlsx’ Error.
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So, here check out the working solutions to Fix Excel Opens Blank Issue and simply access your workbook.
How To Fix Excel Opens Blank Issue?
Well, there is no any exact fix for the problem, so here try the different given fixes and check which one works for you. The below-given solutions work well in both the cases when the Excel file opens blank grey screen and white screen issue. So, try them in your respective case.
Solution 1: Un-check the Ignore DDE Box
One obvious reason or getting the Excel program not opening files is choosing the Ignore DDE box (Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange).
The DDE function is to send a message to the program when the user doubles click and then instructs it to open a file or workbook that has been double-clicked to open.
Follow the steps to do so:
- Open Excel program
- If a new workbook open go to File > Options > Advanced> locate General tab
- Now, uncheck Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) box
- Lastly, click Ok
Please Note: Selecting the Ignore DDE box, will not open the workbook when double-clicked, as Excel ignores the entire instructions sent for other programs to itself.
However, this is a working solution that helped many users to open the Excel by troubleshooting the Excel not opening White or grey screen displays issue.
Read Also: Repair Excel Error “Opening Blank Page Issue When You Double-Click A File Icon Or File Name”
Solution 2: Check Hide/unhide
Well, you can also try this to fix the Excel opening blank screen workbook issue. Users can hide Excel documents by selecting the Hide option. And as a result, a blank screen appears instead of the actual spreadsheet document.
So here it is recommended to check if the hide option is enabled or not and “unhide” data.
Solution 3: Reset Excel File Associations
Try resetting the Excel file associations to its default settings to resolve Excel won’t open files issue.
Follow the given instruction to do so:
- Go to Start > choose Control Panel > Programs > click Default Programs
- Then under Default Programs > click Set your default programs ( Search process will begin to find your default programs)
- And from the default programs list > select Excel
- Click Choose default for this program > a Set Program Associations screen appears.
- Click Select All > Save > OK
Hope doing this will help you to fix Excel file not opening blank grey screen or the white screen appears and access your Excel file easily.
Solution 4: Repair Microsoft Office
Well, in many cases the Microsoft office issue also causes various problems, so here it is recommended if yet the issue is not resolved then try repairing Microsoft Office programs.
Follow the steps to do so:
- Go to Start button > Control Panel > Programs
- Now click Uninstall Programs > Microsoft Office
- And click Change
- Click Online Repair > click Repair
As the whole repairing process is finished restart your PC and check if the issue is resolved.
Solution 5: Turn Off Add-ins
Excel add-ins in many cases interfere with the documents loading so here check for the add-ins.
There are two types of add-ins that can cause Excel programs not to open files.
- Excel add-in
- COM add-in
So turn off Excel add-ins, and check if this helps you.
- Open Excel > If a new workbook opens > go to File
- Click Options > Add-Ins
- And find Manage option bottom of the open screen
- On the drop-down > COM Add-ins > click Go
- Then from the box > clear one of the add-ins on the list
- Click Ok
After finishing the whole steps double click on the file to restart your Excel program
Please Note: If in case still the problem is not resolved then follow the given steps and select the different add-in and remove it. And try opening the Excel workbook again.
Solution 6: Disable Hardware Graphics Acceleration
Try disabling the hardware graphics acceleration option, this helped many users to fix Excel not opening issue.
Follow the steps to do so:
- Open Excel program > File > Options
- Click Advanced > find Display tab
- Now locate the Disable hardware graphics acceleration box > select it
- Click Ok
Check if the Excel won’t open file white screen appears is resolved or not.
Solution 7: Contact Microsoft Support
If none of the above-given solutions helped you to fix the issue then the best is to contact Microsoft Support for further options.
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Conclusion:
After reading the complete fixes, I am very much sure that you can fix Excel opening blank issues on your own. At last, I want to conclude that, Excel file opens blank grey screen issue is also conquered due to wrong changes in the Excel settings. That is mainly done for avoiding external programs. So, it’s my recommendation to carefully follow the above fixes.
Good Luck….
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Do you see a blank document when you open an Excel file? Here’s what you need to do to fix it.
Excel is a great productivity tool for almost any task included in our daily jobs, schoolwork, and work assignments. Want to turn a huge amount of data into an easy-to-understand graph? Use complicated mathematical functions?
Well, you can do that with Excel—unless Excel shows a blank doc when you open the spreadsheet. Fortunately, there are a few fixes that you can try.
1. Check the File
If you open the file and Excel shows a blank doc, the first thing you should do is check the file. This way, you avoid troubleshooting a problem that doesn’t exist. Open another spreadsheet and see if Excel works as usual. In this case, you should re-download the file or ask the file owner to check the Excel file.
If the file works fine for other people, take a look at its properties. Right-click the spreadsheet and select Properties. In the General tab, check if the file is set to open with Excel. If not, click Change and choose Microsoft Excel from the list.
You can change the default app in Windows to avoid running into the same problem again.
2. Unhide the Sheets
Hiding the document’s sheets is a sneaky way to hide its content if you don’t want to password-protect your Excel file. So if Excel displays a blank document, unhiding its sheets might fix the problem.
Open the spreadsheet, select the View tab, and click Unhide. Then, choose which workbook Excel should unhide and confirm it by clicking OK.
3. Refresh Microsoft Excel
Refreshing Excel might seem like an odd trick, but it might get your spreadsheets visible again. Open the problematic Excel file and click Minimize from the window’s top-right corner. Then, wait a few seconds and click the Excel icon on your taskbar to re-open the file.
4. Turn Off Add-Ins
Until now, we’ve tried to fix the blank Excel files issue without changing Excel settings. But if nothing worked, it’s time we move on to more complicated solutions.
Excel add-ins are designed to extend the app’s functionality as you can use them to add charts not available in Excel by default, add bookmarks to your sheets, or integrate a random number generator, amongst other options.
However, a corrupt or outdated add-in might stop Excel from showing a doc’s content. In this case, you should turn off Excel add-ins.
- Launch Excel and head to File > Options.
- From the left-hand menu, select Add-ins.
- Set Manage to Excel Add-ins and click Go. Excel will display a list of installed add-ins.
- To deactivate one of the add-ins, uncheck it and click OK.
5. Disable Hardware Acceleration
The hardware graphics acceleration feature should help Excel display animations or other graphic elements included in the spreadsheet. In reality, it doesn’t make a big difference, and it usually affects Excel’s overall performance, which is why you should turn it off.
- In Excel, head to File > Options.
- Select Advanced.
- From Display, check the Disable hardware graphics acceleration option.
- Click OK to save the new settings.
6. Ignore Dynamic Data Exchange
When you open an Excel spreadsheet, your system sends a dynamic data exchange (or DDE) to Excel. If there are multiple programs receiving and using the same DDE, it will confuse your system, and Excel will open a blank document. To prevent it, you should disable DDE for other apps.
In Excel, go to File > Options > Advanced. There, head to General, uncheck Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), and click OK.
7. Repair Microsoft Office
If you notice that Excel isn’t the only Office app that malfunctions, you should repair Microsoft Office.
- Press Windows key + I to bring up Settings.
- Head to Apps > Apps & features.
- From the apps list, select Microsoft Office and click Modify.
- In the pop-up window, select Quick repair and click Repair to start the process.
Fix Blank Spreadsheets
Hopefully, one or more fixes helped you make Excel spreadsheets visible again. Usually, when this happens, you’re dealing with an incomplete download or incorrect file format. So if a coworker sends you an Excel file, open it right away to avoid any future problems.
With Excel working again, you can learn about how to efficiently organize your spreadsheets.