If I double-click on an excel attachment, excel opens but the file doesn't.

However, if I double click on a word attachment, both word and the word
document does open

I've tried repairing the Office installation but with no success.

Can anyone help please ?

OS is Win7; Office is 2007

Tx

Rob

RobFJ wrote:

If I double-click on an excel attachment, excel opens but the file
doesn't. However, if I double click on a word attachment, both word and
the word document does open

OS is Win7; Office is 2007

Same thing happen when you *save* the attachment to a file on your hard
drive and then double-click on that file in Windows Explorer?

In Folder Options - View, is a filetype association defined for whatever is
the extension of the attached file? That is, if it is an .xls file, do you
see an XLS association defined (that specifies to use Excel to open the
file)?

Yes - the file association is OK.

Just tried to open an excel file from explorer and get the same message - so
it looks as though the problems rests will excel rather than outlook

Will repost on an excel newsgroup

Thanks

"VanguardLH" wrote in message
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RobFJ wrote:

If I double-click on an excel attachment, excel opens but the file
doesn't. However, if I double click on a word attachment, both word and
the word document does open

OS is Win7; Office is 2007

Same thing happen when you *save* the attachment to a file on your hard
drive and then double-click on that file in Windows Explorer?

In Folder Options - View, is a filetype association defined for whatever
is
the extension of the attached file? That is, if it is an .xls file, do
you
see an XLS association defined (that specifies to use Excel to open the
file)?

RobFJ wrote:

VanguardLH wrote ...

RobFJ wrote:

If I double-click on an excel attachment, excel opens but the file
doesn't. However, if I double click on a word attachment, both word and
the word document does open

OS is Win7; Office is 2007

Same thing happen when you *save* the attachment to a file on your hard
drive and then double-click on that file in Windows Explorer?

In Folder Options - View, is a filetype association defined for whatever
is the extension of the attached file? That is, if it is an .xls file,
do you see an XLS association defined (that specifies to use Excel to
open the file)?

Yes - the file association is OK.

Just tried to open an excel file from explorer and get the same message - so
it looks as though the problems rests will excel rather than outlook

Will repost on an excel newsgroup

For my XLS filetype association and its open action, it has:

Action: &Open
Application: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e
Use DDE: enabled
DDE message: [open("%1")]
Application: Excel
DDE app not running: (blank)
Topic: system

I'm using Office 2003 hence the OFFICE11 in the path. For Office 2007, you
should see OFFICE12.

Since %1 replacement parameter is not shown in the Application value
(command line), it appears that only DDE gets used to transfer the object to
the handler program.