Issue with opening Excel

system · April 15, 2010, 7:26pm

Hi,

It seems as though now that I have Live Office installed, I can no longer click on an Excel icon for it to open. I have to open Excel (using the start menu) and then go to file -> open. Is there a way to change this? I seem to recall reading a post about this some time ago but can’t find it now.

Thanks,
Brian

bciampa (BOB member since 2009-02-26)

system · April 15, 2010, 8:33pm

I had noticed that too…but didn’t think much of it at first but now must investigate hmm…

katullus (BOB member since 2009-08-21)

system · April 16, 2010, 5:13pm

To change it back:
-Open Excel
-Tools > Options
-General Tab
-Uncheck “Ignore other applications”

If you open Xcelsius, it will change the setting back to a checked state.

chris465 (BOB member since 2008-04-29)

system · April 16, 2010, 9:17pm

Nice chris…saved me the trouble of looking

katullus (BOB member since 2009-08-21)

system · June 4, 2010, 6:28am

But why does it do this ?

ie set the check state ?

I have a client who we installed it and as a result of that flag being set causes him a raft of other issues with crashing, multiple instances of Excel.exe running etc etc.

Nniixx (BOB member since 2009-09-02)

system · June 4, 2010, 8:16pm

You actually need to change your settings for the Open command within Excel. To do this:

Go to Windows Explorer, click on menu item Tools>Folder Options. Click on the File Types tab, then scroll to an Office document type (my problem was with Excel, Ill show that here). Click on the .xls document type, then click the Advanced button. In the Actions section, click on Open, then click the Edit button. In the field labeled Application used to perform action: scroll to the end and make sure there is a %1 at the end for Office 2007. Note the double quotes, also make sure Use DDE is checked.

tracyn712 (BOB member since 2008-06-05)

system · December 14, 2016, 10:24am

Hi.

Can anyone please tell me how I could do this in 2016?
I have Windows 7, and I can not find File Types Tab…

*Everytime I close Xcelsius, I need to uncheck DDE.
It is taking a lot of time… I want to change setting so that I do not have to do it every time…

Thanking you in advance…

papa1366 (BOB member since 2015-09-19)

system · December 26, 2016, 6:04am

Hi. I solved this by checking this off.
There is no more DDE issue when opening Excel after using Xcelsius!

papa1366 (BOB member since 2015-09-19)