Excel file does not open in Windows Explorer

Posted on February 9, 2010 by . Filed under Connection, Excel | 2 Comments

If you work with the Live Office Comptaibility enabled in Xcelsius, changes are that you cannot open an Excel file from the network anymore. However when strating Excel and then navigating to the file on the network in Excel itself, the file does open.

This can be fixed by de-selecting the Excel option: Ignore other applications.

Excel 2003: Go to Tools -> Options -> General -> de-select ignore other applications
Excel 2007: Go to Icon -> Excel Options -> Advanced -> General -> de-select ignore other IDE applications

Deselect other applications

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Femke Kooij is a dashboard and report designer, developer and educator specializing in SAP | BusinessObjects Dashboards (better known as Xcelsius) and Crystal Reports. She has also a lot of experience with other SAP | BusinessObjects toolings like, Web Intelligence (WebI), Information Design Tool (Universe Designer), BusinessObjects Data Services (BODS) and the overall server platform BusinessObjects Enterprise (Launchpad, CMC). She spends a lot of her time thinking about and sharing her knowledge of Xcelsius to others through her own blog. Lately she is exploring other visualization tools like Qlikview and Tableau. On the later she is also posting some experiences. Currently she is in the employment of Cognizant Technology Solutions. Her blog only contains her personal views, thoughts and opinions. It is not endorsed by Cognizant Technology Solutions nor does it constitute any official communication of Cognizant Technology Solutions.

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