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I cannot get Excel 2016 to open and run a file by clicking on the file from File Explorer. Is there a bug?
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The issue got solved by an online repair from the Programs and Features in the Control Panel.
Hope it helps to others
Hi Vijay,
This fix works, however.. it's becoming tiresome to have to do this to EVERY installation within my business. I'm upgrading users from 2010 to 2016.. every installation I do, I have to finalise the install, ask the user to sign in to check out a license from their E3 and then do a repair install. This increases the installation time by atleast 10-15 minutes. Can you please put this on the bug tracking list?!
Thanks,
Jake
This totally fixed my similar issue!
Thanks!
In general, repair solves these kind of problems.
Like the rest of the folks
1- I disabled the DDE
2- I associated all the files to be used by default with excel
but it didnt work.
The only thing that worked was that the office repair option
Hi, that worked for me too with Office 2016.
Thank you so much.
Kathy