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When opening an Excel 2007 spreadsheet in Office 2003 w/ converter pack you receive stranger errors. The first error may say something like “C:\Documents.xls could not be found”. That would be great if that was the spreadsheet you were trying to open but it doesn’t matter what spreadsheet you open, It always says that exact same error. Then it will give an error for each word in the file name it self. For example, if you open a spreadsheet named “Bobs numbers.xlsx” you receive an error saying that it could not find “Bobs.xls” and “numbers.xls”. But at the end the file conversion takes place and everything looks good.
The Solution:
The error is located in [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\command] which has “C:\\PROGRA~1\\MI1933~1\\OFFICE11\\EXCEL.EXE\” %1 which is not what is showing when running assoc and ftype through command line and also not showing in correctly in the folder options. The correct entry is “C:\\PROGRA~1\\MI1933~1\\OFFICE11\\EXCEL.EXE\” /e
Change the “%1″ and replace it with “/e” it. Go back to the desktop and hit F5 and try to open the document again.
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