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when I try to open my excel spreadsheets, they open in Notepad and are
scrambled. I have tried to change associated program unseccessfully.

I'd try letting excel change the association.

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver amp; /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.

EASC wrote:
gt;
gt; when I try to open my excel spreadsheets, they open in Notepad and are
gt; scrambled. I have tried to change associated program unseccessfully.

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Dave Peterson

I tried your solution, but I get a message saying that excel/unregserver not
found. The same for regserver. I did a search for unregserver on my harddrive
and got no results.

quot;Dave Petersonquot; wrote:

gt; I'd try letting excel change the association.
gt;
gt; Close Excel and
gt; Windows Start Button|Run
gt; excel /unregserver
gt; then
gt; Windows Start Button|Run
gt; excel /regserver
gt;
gt; The /unregserver amp; /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
gt; factory defaults.
gt;
gt; EASC wrote:
gt; gt;
gt; gt; when I try to open my excel spreadsheets, they open in Notepad and are
gt; gt; scrambled. I have tried to change associated program unseccessfully.
gt;
gt; --
gt;
gt; Dave Peterson
gt;

Watch your spaces.

There's a space after excel and before the slash (in both commands).

EASC wrote:
gt;
gt; I tried your solution, but I get a message saying that excel/unregserver not
gt; found. The same for regserver. I did a search for unregserver on my harddrive
gt; and got no results.
gt;
gt; quot;Dave Petersonquot; wrote:
gt;
gt; gt; I'd try letting excel change the association.
gt; gt;
gt; gt; Close Excel and
gt; gt; Windows Start Button|Run
gt; gt; excel /unregserver
gt; gt; then
gt; gt; Windows Start Button|Run
gt; gt; excel /regserver
gt; gt;
gt; gt; The /unregserver amp; /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
gt; gt; factory defaults.
gt; gt;
gt; gt; EASC wrote:
gt; gt; gt;
gt; gt; gt; when I try to open my excel spreadsheets, they open in Notepad and are
gt; gt; gt; scrambled. I have tried to change associated program unseccessfully.
gt; gt;
gt; gt; --
gt; gt;
gt; gt; Dave Peterson
gt; gt;

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Dave Peterson

ps. These are flags that you're passing to the excel.exe program--not files to
be processed.

EASC wrote:
gt;
gt; I tried your solution, but I get a message saying that excel/unregserver not
gt; found. The same for regserver. I did a search for unregserver on my harddrive
gt; and got no results.
gt;
gt; quot;Dave Petersonquot; wrote:
gt;
gt; gt; I'd try letting excel change the association.
gt; gt;
gt; gt; Close Excel and
gt; gt; Windows Start Button|Run
gt; gt; excel /unregserver
gt; gt; then
gt; gt; Windows Start Button|Run
gt; gt; excel /regserver
gt; gt;
gt; gt; The /unregserver amp; /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
gt; gt; factory defaults.
gt; gt;
gt; gt; EASC wrote:
gt; gt; gt;
gt; gt; gt; when I try to open my excel spreadsheets, they open in Notepad and are
gt; gt; gt; scrambled. I have tried to change associated program unseccessfully.
gt; gt;
gt; gt; --
gt; gt;
gt; gt; Dave Peterson
gt; gt;

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Dave Peterson