Microsoft Excel Troubleshooting Steps

This morning, I was approached by my colleague. She told me that her Microsoft Excel isn't working right. She told me that everytime she opens a "known good excel file" from her desktop, the excel file would load up but with a blank spreadsheet.

In order for you to open that specific file, you need to locate it, in the excel application select FILE->OPEN->YOUR FILE, hassle isn't it?! So what I did was, I searched on how to troubleshoot this problem and luckily I have found one. This is it.

• Open "My Computer"
• Click on Tools
• Click on Folder Options
• Click the Tab "File Types"
• Scroll down till you find the Extension XLS
• Click the Advanced button at the bottom
• Highlight the Open and Click Edit
• Click Browse and find your Excel.exe which will be under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office in either Office10, Office11 or Office12
• Then after selecting your Excel.exe at the end of the "Application used to perform action:" line put /e "%1"
• After that un-check the Use DDE box and hit ok all the way out.

After doing these steps, I'd open the same excel file and the problem was solved.

Thanks for the troubleshooting steps from this SITE.