Excel doing weird things

corblimey · 16-05-2014 08:26PM #1

I've had Excel 2010 installed on my PC for the last few months since I bought it. I have it added it to my taskbar. However, this week, every time I clicked on the pinned shortcut, it would go into some sort of configuration installer dialog which just sat there, no matter what I did. I also get this dialog if I dbl click on an .xls file. The only way I can currently start up Excel is by double clicking on the exe file in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12 folder.

I have no idea what could be causing this. Google makes mention of admin accounts, and registry settings (none of which match what I have in my registry). It's not a disaster, but it's pretty inconvenient.

PS: just checked, and WinWord does the same thing when I click on .docx files.

Tropheus · 16-05-2014 08:28PM

I presume it's a legal version of Office. Have you tried reinstalling? Can't say I've experienced this problem.

corblimey · 16-05-2014 08:40PM

Yeah, totally legit, and reinstalling is probably the next step, although since it works from the Office12 folder, there's nothing inherently wrong with the software, so I can't see what a reinstall would do. It's more to do with how Windows interprets shortcuts to the exe or something.

5uspect · 16-05-2014 08:44PM

A friend of mine had their Office15 install **** itself this week. All the various program executables just vanished. They ended up having to reinstall it.

Could a Windows update have caused something unexpected?

yoyo · 17-05-2014 10:46AM

My Dads Office 2013 screwed up recently. I had to uninstall and re-install it. something similar to what you describe. Try completely uninstalling and re-installing. Run this FixIT also to make sure it's completely removed before reinstalling

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Excel doing weird things

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