(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:35 am
Post subject: ignore other applications problem Archived from groups: microsoft>public>excel>setup (more info?)
Office 2003. Vista Home Premium. I want to open two instances of excel
to compare so I click "ignore other applications" in options/general.
That works fine but now I can't double click an excel file in explorer
to open it. If I do I get the error "Windows can't find "c:... the path
and file."
I put excel in my "send to" and if right click the excel file and use
send to, then it works. All seems very strange.
Is there any other way to open multiple excel files other than ignore
other applications?
(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:07 pm
Post subject: Re: ignore other applications problem [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
You might have to designate a full path to excel.exe.
In that case Start>Run "C:\yourpath\excel.exe" /regserver(quotes
required)>OK.
If no joy with that, post back and we can propose another fix.
Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:35:35 -0700, John <john6528.TakeThisOut@comcast.com> wrote:
>Office 2003. Vista Home Premium. I want to open two instances of excel
>to compare so I click "ignore other applications" in options/general.
>That works fine but now I can't double click an excel file in explorer
>to open it. If I do I get the error "Windows can't find "c:... the path
>and file."
>
>I put excel in my "send to" and if right click the excel file and use
>send to, then it works. All seems very strange.
>
>Is there any other way to open multiple excel files other than ignore
>other applications?
>
>John
(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:16 pm
Post subject: Re: ignore other applications problem [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
Didn't work. regserver produced an error in stdole32.tlb requiring an
install which it accomplished, presumably using my MSocache. Then
opening two files still had them in one instance of excel.
John
Gord Dibben wrote:
> Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar
>
> 1) Start>Run "excel.exe /unregserver"(no quotes)>OK.
> 2) Start>Run "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 Start>Run "C:\yourpath\excel.exe" /regserver(quotes
> required)>OK.
>
> If no joy with that, post back and we can propose another fix.
>
>
> Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
>
> On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:35:35 -0700, John <john6528 RemoveThis @comcast.com> wrote:
>
>> Office 2003. Vista Home Premium. I want to open two instances of excel
>> to compare so I click "ignore other applications" in options/general.
>> That works fine but now I can't double click an excel file in explorer
>> to open it. If I do I get the error "Windows can't find "c:... the path
>> and file."
>>
>> I put excel in my "send to" and if right click the excel file and use
>> send to, then it works. All seems very strange.
>>
>> Is there any other way to open multiple excel files other than ignore
>> other applications?
>>
>> John
>
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