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.
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.
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.