Embedded Excel 2007 workbook in Word 2007 document won't open. "Excel is not installed" error.

Anonymous
2010-03-08T20:45:01+00:00

I've seen this same problem frequently on other message boards and there has never been a solution, so I'm hoping that Microsoft is aware of it (they should be) and can address it definitively.

I have a Word 2007 document with an embedded Excel 2007 spreadsheet.  When I attempt to open the spreadsheet I get the message: "The program used to create this object is Excel.  That program is not installed on your computer. To edit this object, you must install a program that can open the object.".  Excel is in fact installed.  If I have Excel closed when I attempt to open the embedded spreadsheet then Excel actually opens, but then it does not open the embedded workbook and Word immediately gives the above message after Excel opens.

This is the same problem as is addressed in KB article 960806, except that I do not have "SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007" installed

I have run MS Office Diagnostics and no errors were reported. 

I have "Repaired" the installation from add/remove programs.  After I did this the embedded workbook appeared as a picture in the document and I couldn't even attempt to open it.

I have tried deselecting "ignore DDE" in Excel Options > Advanced > General

I have tried converting the embedding object to a binary object and back again.

The embedded workbook is a macro-enabled workbook, I don't know if it also happens for non-macro-enabled workbooks.

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Anonymous
2012-02-11T04:22:08+00:00

Had the same issue; disabling Goodle Cloud Connect add-in in both Word and Excel solved it for me. It might help to try disabling all the installed add-ins.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-02-10T19:40:11+00:00

    We are having this problem as well.  Windows XP/Office 2007 SP2.  Tried all the recommendations - no relief.  It is important to note that the spreadsheet is not saved separately but embedded.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-02-14T21:34:54+00:00

    We don't appear to see the problem if we disable our paperless systems add-in for 2007, but since we use this religiously, keeping it disabled is not really a fix for us. Still, we see no problems with this add-in when running on Word 2003, so I wonder what the difference is.

    I'm going to report it to my vendor, maybe they can figure it out.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-05-11T17:54:48+00:00

    I found that is I deleted C:\Users<my user name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART\PERSONAL.XLSB (personal workbook for personal macros) that I do not have the problem.

    This is for Office 2007 SP3 on Vista.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-05-19T14:14:40+00:00

    This worked for me:

    disable the addins in the registry here:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins

    Go to this location and select any keys for addins you see and change the LoadBehavior from 3 to 0 (zero).

    Repeat for this location in the registry (if any listed here):

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins

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