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here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Super User Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Super User is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top “Windows cannot find” file when opening Excel spreadsheet up vote 1 down vote favorite For all of my Excel spreadsheets when I attempt to open them http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_excel-mso_other/error-windows-cannot-find-filepathetc-make-sure/703df7b3-a7a8-4afd-9dcf-e65dd8383958 (by double-clicking in explorer) I get the message "Windows cannot find C:...". The files are there, and are valid zip files as seen by 7-Zip. There are no apparent lock files in the directories. I did just install Norton-360 over the weekend (replacing Kasperski), but the Norton log shows no events related to Excel. However, while installing Norton I did reboot with some Excel files open. Presumably something is hosed in my Excel configuration but I don't know what. Update (Before actually posting) -- http://superuser.com/questions/394635/windows-cannot-find-file-when-opening-excel-spreadsheet I found an article that suggested turning off Advanced Option "Ignore other applications that use DDE", then doing excel.exe /unregister followed by excel.exe /register. I tried this but I suspect that the two Excel calls were ignored (Excel opened, but no obvious change). With that option off the spreadsheets load OK, but not with it on. And, curiously, spreadsheets load OK with the option on or off if I open Excel first and then open the spreadsheet in it. Does anyone have any idea what effect leaving that option off will have? Update 2 -- I tried running the "repair" option. It said it corrected a couple of config things (without saying what they were), but I still get a failure if I double-click an Excel file with the "Ignore other applications..." option checked. Update 3 -- I managed to fix this problem, but failed at the time to come back and say what I did, and now I can't remember for sure. But I think it had something to do with "Options"/"Save" and some of the values there. Something to do with AutoRecover, perhaps. (Possibly there was a file in recovery and I had to specify "Disable AutoRecover for this workbook" to let bring-up get past it. Or perhaps the AutoRecover file location was hosed.) Anyway, if it happens to someone else, and you find the fix, post it below and I'll mark it answered. microsoft-excel windows-vista norton-360 share|improve this question edited Sep 5 '14 at 11:36 Oliver Salzbu
on the ribbon interface. Author Bio Allen Wyatt With more than 50 non-fiction books and numerous magazine articles to his http://excel.tips.net/T002375_Fixing_Cant_Find_Files_Errors.html credit, Allen Wyatt is an internationally recognized author. He is president of Sharon Parq Associates, a computer and publishing services company. Learn more about Allen... Subscribe Get tips like this every http://www.sysadminsblog.com/microsoft/excel-error-windows-cannot-find-%E2%80%9C%E2%80%9D%E2%80%A6/ week in ExcelTips, a free productivity newsletter. Enter your e-mail address and click "Subscribe." (Your e-mail address is not shared with anyone, ever.) Want to see what the newsletter looks like? windows cannot View the most recent issue. Helpful Links ExcelTips FAQ ExcelTips Resources Ask an Excel Question Make a Comment Free Business Forms Free Calendars Tips.Net > ExcelTips Home > General > Fixing "Can't Find Files" Errors Fixing "Can't Find Files" Errors by Allen Wyatt (last updated October 12, 2013) Jamie is having problems starting Excel properly. When he starts windows cannot find the program he gets two error messages: One says that Excel cannot find the file Microsoft.xls, and the other that it cannot find the file Office.xls. After clicking OK to both of the errors, Excel works normally. When you start Excel, it should do just that—start right up. Error messages like the ones mentioned mean that Excel thinks it should be able to find a couple of files, but it cannot. The two files in this instance are both XLS files, so they are workbooks that Excel thinks it should be able to open. In doing searches of systems with newly installed versions of Excel, there are no workbooks with the names Microsoft.xls or Office.xls, so I can only conclude that the files were added to the machine by a user, by a third-party program, or by some add-in for Excel. The first thing to try is to force Excel to re-register itself in the Windows Registry. You do this at the command prompt (or after choosing Start | Run), using a command line like the following: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Excel.exe" /Regserver The quote marks arou
already having an Excel session open. "Windows cannot find ‘