I have the same problem and run as administrator is not checked. You can
use the open button and browse to the file you want to open. If it is in
documents it is quick to find and open.
"John" <me@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
>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
> news:A0F9BED3-67CB-4A1C-8905-A7A6BA144231@xxxxxx Quote:
>>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.
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