I had the same problem. Be sure you don't have the Compatibility tab set to
Run as administrator in the Properties dialog of Excel.exe
"stomped" <stomped@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I don't know if I'm in the right forum, but hopefully someone can help me.
>
> When I go to my documents and try to open an Excel file, I get a message
> saying that Windows can't find the file in that folder, to try and retype
> the
> name again. I have other documents in that same folder which I can open
> without a problem.
>
> If I open the Excel application and go to the place showing the files last
> opened, I can open the files listed there; however, I can't open those
> same
> files from the "documents" folder. If I do a file search, the files show
> as
> being in the "documents" folder, but windows does not seem to recognize
> them.
> This only happens with Excel files. If I create a new Excel file, I can
> open it by opening the application and going to the place that shows the
> last
> documents opened, but can not open it from the "documents" folder. I
> tried
> putting the Excel files in a different folder, but can't open them still.
>
> I dragged and dropped the files from the "documents" folder, put them in a
> flash drive and was able to open them in another computer.
>
> If I receive an Excel file over the Internet, I can't open it either. I
> tried restoring my system, but this did not work either.
>
> I'll greatly appreciate any help that I can get.