File not opening in excel 2007

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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:
  

  =================

  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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    Monday, June 21, 2010 4:11 AM

  • Unmarked as answer by
    The IT Sherpa
    Tuesday, July 6, 2010 3:36 PM

• 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?

• 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

• 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

  • Proposed as answer by
    VBAToolsMVP
    Friday, November 16, 2012 9:10 AM

• 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…

  • Marked as answer by
    Sally Tang
    Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:17 AM
  • Unmarked as answer by
    The IT Sherpa
    Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:32 PM

• 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

• 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. 

• 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

• 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
  and we’re still required to save the file loacally and open it from within Excel. Please help.

• 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…

• 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?

• 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 

• 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.

• 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

  • Proposed as answer by
    santoshkevlani
    Sunday, January 29, 2012 1:21 PM

• That’s worked for me. Cheers.

  Bil

• 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……

• I have this problem as well — any clues appreciated.

• 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.

  • Proposed as answer by
    Jeetu_007
    Thursday, August 18, 2011 10:51 AM
  • Unproposed as answer by
    Jeetu_007
    Thursday, August 18, 2011 10:52 AM

• 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 

• 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

  • Proposed as answer by
    R_ul
    Wednesday, September 7, 2011 9:57 PM

• 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!

• Your solution works great Sally! thank you!

  

• 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
  in the water.

• This worked for me.  Good post Josh.

• Thank you Josh. 

  It worked perfectly for me as well. 

• 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

• 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.

• Roy,

  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 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

• 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

  Thank you
  Very fast and it worke

• Josh — you rock!  Kinda obvious really (suprised the MS sponsored person didnt know that trick!) but that is in hindsight….  Thanks mate.

• 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.

  • Edited by
    numcrun
    Monday, July 16, 2012 11:42 PM
    More information

• 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

• 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

  • Edited by
    RiskAvoider
    Monday, December 17, 2012 5:11 AM
    corrected spelling

• 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:

  1. Converting 17 hex to binary = 0001 0111
  2. Setting the second bit = 0101 0111
  3. Converting that back to hex = 57

  Hope this helps!

  • Proposed as answer by
    teschste
    Friday, January 4, 2013 7:55 PM

• 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
  after going crazy trying to totaly reprogram Windows in the process. This is one of those duh moment things you just have to remember Sometimes your own security settings will bite you in the Processor.

  • Edited by
    Mr.Jorge
    Sunday, September 22, 2013 10:46 AM
  • Proposed as answer by
    Mr.Jorge
    Sunday, September 22, 2013 10:47 AM

• • Proposed as answer by
    coopetal
    Friday, May 30, 2014 8:30 PM
  • Edited by
    coopetal
    Friday, May 30, 2014 8:31 PM

• 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.12shellOpencommand

  9. 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 like

  vUpAV8!!!!!!!!!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.

  • Edited by
    Invyl
    Wednesday, January 10, 2018 1:25 PM

• THANK YOU ! 

  This worked but now I’m getting file cannot be found message 

  PLEASE help !

• Invyl post from Jan 9th & 10th worked for me.

  • Edited by
    ChaseAtSolara
    Tuesday, July 17, 2018 5:04 PM

• 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!

• Thanks a lot Josh,

  It helped me,,,,,.

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