Thursday, October 22, 2009

Excel doesn't open files from shortcuts

I had a weird problem the other day. Excel couln't open any file from the desktop or any location. It was saying that can't find the file or something similar. I said "great! Another stupid Micro$oft error. What else am I going to see?".

So I went online to try to find a solution to the problem. After some searching I found that if you uncheck the option IGNORE OTHER APPLICATIONS THAT USE DYNAMIC DATA EXCHANGE (DDE) the problem was solved.

You can find that option under Tools, options in Excel 2003 or Excel Options, Advanced in Excel 2007.