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# Microsoft Excel : How to repair "Opening blank file when double clicking on an excel file"
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/microsoft-excel-how-to-repair-opening-blank-file-when-double-clicking-on-an-excel-file/
- Published: 2006-10-18T18:21:23.000Z
- Updated: 2006-10-18T18:21:23.000Z
- Description: Ran into an interesting problem with troubleshooting an Excel issue. Double clicking on an excel file opened a blank file on the affected machine. I thought...
- Author: admin
- Tags: Technology, Uncategorized, Windows, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

Ran into an interesting problem with troubleshooting an Excel issue. Double clicking on an excel file opened a blank file on the affected machine. I thought it might be something related to the associations and checked them from “Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types” in the Windows Explorer menu. Everything was in order there. I then tried a reinstall of Office (note : would not do this in the future without additional troubleshooting 🙂 ). That didn’t help either. Finally, I gave up and did a Google search, which returned this URL

[http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.office.misc/browse\_thread/thread/aa3da7b29cd55a93/3347ca4c2ea6673a%233347ca4c2ea6673a](http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.office.misc/browse%5Fthread/thread/aa3da7b29cd55a93/3347ca4c2ea6673a%233347ca4c2ea6673a?ref=kudithipudi.org)

Did the following according to the post and everything returned to default settings

1) Run Excel with “/safe” option.  
2) Click on “help -> Detect and Repair” from the Excel menu  
3) Close Excel for repair

Thx [Google](http://www.google.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org).