This excel file has my important data which has been recovered from a faulty harddisk. A few of them I had tried already from other threads I saw before. I work in a very tightly controlled environment so was not able to uninstall the update myself. That is very annoying and the only way to open the files is to start excel, or use openoffice. Not entirely sure at this point what the difference is but it's there to be set and you have only made reference to setting the default app for. Thanks very much, Mike Hi Cadald, These are the simple steps to change the Excel file extension.
I wrote some many years ago, and continue to modify them. I did so and had no problems. After formatting E drive, I am trying to open excel files for work, but none of the files are opening. I checked the 'Set Associations' tab and the default for 'xls' files is Excel 2007. I am on Office 2016, Excel 2016. I noticed this problem right after these were installed and it no longer occurs for me after they were removed. Any ideas of where else to look? This has worked on most of the machines that I have come across on our network.
I am unable to open Excel 2003 files directly by clicking on the file with Excel 2007. Excel users are reporting an odd bug in the way Excel 2010 and 2013 behave. This at least allowed me to view the worksheets and the data. Robert I also have a problem with excel files not opening. It is frustrating not being able to use what I think is a good feature. The fixes that I have seen are all application fixes. To do this, follow the steps for your installation type and operating system.
File Viewer Lite will open the file and display the document in its native format as if you were viewing the document with Microsoft Excel. Now right click on ExtensionHardening and select Modify… option. Is my excel still recoverable? Opening them without Protected View is a security vulnerability, and therefore files open from such locations are now blocked. So I tried several more. I have recently installed Excel 2007.
If you can't open the file, re-read the extension and research it online. The Microsoft Office software is Ms Office with Frontpage. Perhaps this could be a Windows or Ofiice update issue? Thanks to all that read, and any help with this would be great. You can try any of the above mentioned methods to fix this error message. Check to make sure that. Not the answer you're looking for? Please let me know in the comments below or on , if you've been able to replicate this problem with other versions of Office patches.
You can install that and embed that service and improve on it if required as its opensource. If an attacker can drop files into the trusted location they can easily exploit users who open such documents. But we have upgraded to Excel 2016 recently. I don't think this would be a correct fix, since it is only one user with the issue. If you trust the workbook, you can then enable editing. You can confirm this file association in the Default app settings in your Windows Settings. I have work to do and I am dead in the water do to this - not a happy camper.
If I did disable this, the file will open after I okay the warning message. Below are fixes that I have found. It's clearly not windows file associations, as Excel launches ok. We cannot always trust files so its better to first convert them to actual excel format and then open them. The following screen shot shows this option in Excel.
Hi there, I downloaded your repair software but it could not recover my document. Freya Office Newsroom Update : Our dev team is working on options to preserve security and assist customers with their workflow. Is there any way to recover my file? Have you created or changed the configuration of any custom fields that are being exported? Thanks, When you say you have set the file type. Frena: This is quite frustrating that you release this new update without any advanced warning to users on how to prepare for the change to avoid these problems. The difference with mine is, when I try to open it directly from a network share, that is when I get the blank gray Excel application where no buttons are usable and there is no table or anything. I know I'm a year late on this but I just ran into this problem yesterday. Did you enjoy using our free file extension finder service? Do you have any advice? Microsoft Office I moved from Vista to W7 using EasyFileTransfer which worked far better than I expected!! Select 'Trust Center' and click on 'Trust Center Settings' button.
What happens when you try? Microsoft Office I'm not sure if it because the files are 2003 or not? Windows 7 and 10 operating systems. There was another member, hxl7, who appears to be having a similar problem in an earlier post. The file looks well created with normal size, however the sheet can not be loaded by the excel application. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file. This resulted in a message saying Excel stopped working and will restart itself. This will also associate Excel 2016 with all. Windows updates would mess with the registry and I would have to reapply the reg patch.