Opening Excel documents from Outlook

Question

There is a new problem in opening Excel 2010 documents from Outlook in separate windows from a recent MS update.

I have done the registry changes below and all Excel documents were opening in separate windows until a recent MS update.

Update:    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\command(Default) to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /e "%1"

Rename: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\command\command to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\command\command2

Rename: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\ddeexec\ to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.8\shell\Open\ddeexec2\

Update: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\command(Default) to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE" /e "%1"

Rename: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\command\command to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\command\command2

Rename: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\ddeexec\ to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Excel.Sheet.12\shell\Open\ddeexec2\

I have also applied this fix:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2636670

I can still open from windows explorer etc any Excel document in a separate window. But when opening an Excel document attached to an email in Outlook it always opens on top of the first Excel document I opened. If I save the document then open it from windows explorer, desktop etc it then will open in a separate window just not directly fom Outlook.

This needs to be fixed. I have gone thru registry and added the "%1" in keys I thought might solve it but nothing solves it.

I am using Windows 7.

Answer 1

I recommend not to go for registry cleaning as it may create new problems. 

you can restore your computer to the date where it use to work perfect without any problem.

Here the Steps to follow to Restore your computer to specific date and time where it worked perfect

Step 1: Click on start and go to Accessories

Step 2: Click on System tools and then click on system restore

Step 3: Select Date where you wanna restore and restore the computer

(Note: Make sure you have taken back up of files which are very important)

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Answer 2

I've gone thru the updates this week and of course none mention an update to Excel...but that doesn't mean anything either.

I don't understand why Microsoft broke this. It worked with office 2003 just fine.

Thousands of complaints from other users all over the web that want the separate windows and MS even created a fix for it. Fix the product!

Answer 3

Do you know which update caused or were there bunch of updates installed recently???

Create new user account as you have already modified the registry....