I have an end-user reporting the above issue. He is running Office
2000 Professional SP3 on Windows XP. I have suggested that he attempt
a Repair of Office - did not fix. I suggested a Removal and
Reinstallation of Office & Service Packs - did not fix. Any ideas
would be appreciated.
Thanks, Terry C

His issue as presented to me is below....

I can not directly open Excel spreadsheet on network (N drive or
local C: drive using Explore from the Start menu.
I also can not directly open a spreadsheet if it is an email
attachment, I must save it to local drive first, then open it from
within Excel.

I can open the spreadsheet from any drive if I open it from within
Excel (File/Open/etc).

The window that displays when the spreadsheet will not open is just
blank and remains that way.

Then I get a little pop-up that says : The system cannot find the file
specified.