The Old New Thing

When I double-click an Excel spreadsheet, Excel opens but the document doesn’t

July 30, 2008 Jul 30, 2008 07/30/08

Raymond Chen

Sometime last year, we got a report from a customer that whenever he double-clicks an Excel spreadsheet, Excel starts up, but the document isn't loaded. Instead, he gets an error message saying that document could not be found. He has to go to the Open dialog and open the spreadsheet manually. This report was routed to the shell team, since it...