when opening an excel file, two files open

When I open up an Excel file from Explorer, two excel documents open up. One
document is called "Book 1" and the other is the actual document that I
intended to open. How do I prevent this from happening?

Brian

Same answer I posted Dec 9th. Did it not work for you?

Brian

To prevent Book1 from opening you can append /e to your shortcut for opening
Excel.

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE\EXCEL.EXE" /e

Alternative to the above............

Go to Start>Settings>Folder>Options>File Types. Scroll down to MS Excel
Worksheet. Then if running Win98 OS Edit> select "Open" and Edit.

If using WinXP OS you would scroll down to .XLS then "Advanced">Open>Edit.

In Command line the path should be similar to this....

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE\EXCEL.EXE" /e.

You must have the double quotes.

Below have "use DDE" checked and this in the DDE message box....[open("%1")]

Application should read "Excel"(no quotes)


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:50:02 -0800, "Brian" <Brian@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>When I open up an Excel file from Explorer, two excel documents open up. One
>document is called "Book 1" and the other is the actual document that I
>intended to open. How do I prevent this from happening?