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Trouble opening excel file

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I recently downloaded TC on a new laptop. I am a novice user, so apologies if this is a basic question. When trying to open an excel file, TC is treating the file as a directory, and opens to a set of sub-directories, which are called: _rels, docProps, xl. I don't know what these are. The file itself doesn't open. This isn't happening with word documents or pdfs, which open fine. This is happening regardless of whether I press "Enter" or double click to open the file.
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Actually TC opens the *.xlsx file as an archive (which it really is).

see also Double click to open 'xlsx docx' file instead of opening as archive
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robbie.dembo wrote: 2019-01-14, 21:00 UTC I recently downloaded TC on a new laptop. I am a novice user, so apologies if this is a basic question. When trying to open an excel file, TC is treating the file as a directory, and opens to a set of sub-directories, which are called: _rels, docProps, xl. I don't know what these are. The file itself doesn't open. This isn't happening with word documents or pdfs, which open fine. This is happening regardless of whether I press "Enter" or double click to open the file.
Use the top level context menu to open the file.
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Re: Trouble opening excel file

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I changed the "Associate with" to "Excel()" but now I get an error saying Microsoft Office doesn't recognize the command. Is there a different association I should be using?
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2robbie.dembo
Which Office version do you use?

And try to use your OS to associate .xlsx to your excel.exe
See
https://www.tenforums.com/microsoft-office-365/63196-how-make-excel-2016-default-app-open-xls-xlsx-data-files.html


Me guess you use win10?


 
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Yeah win10
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Use Microsoft 365, whatever came on the laptop. Still not getting this to work, hoping for suggestions!
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robbie.dembo wrote: 2019-01-15, 18:08 UTC ...Still not getting this to work, ...
What have you tested till now?
Do you have a "Office" folder on your PC, and an Excel.exe?


 
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Re: Trouble opening excel file

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I uninstalled MS Office and reinstalled it and it seems to be working now! Sometimes the easiest solution is best
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Nice to heat that you could fix it! I'm getting quite a few reports about broken Excel file associations - they work in Explorer, but don't work with Windows functions like ShellExecuteEx which I have to use to open files.

Another solution would be to define an association just for Total Commander:

1. Choose files - internal assocuations - Add
2. Type the extensions which you want to associate, e.g.
*.xlsx
3. Click on "Confirm"
4. In the line "Open with", click on ">>"
5. Choose the editor (e.g. Excel.exe)
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