Seoulscapade

The time it was taking Office 2003 documents and spreadsheets to open on my wife’s PC was a joke. It was a real pain without explanation. And I still don’t know why it happened. However, I did find out how to fix it, not before wasting more of my life because of Windows. I will have to bill Microsoft for the time spent.

Here’s how to fix the problem:

1. Open My Computer.
2. Go to Tools -> Folder Options, and click on File Types.
3. Find the extension of the file in question (XLS, DOC, etc.)
4. Highlight the extension and click “Advanced.”
5. Highlight the “Open” Action and click “Edit.”
6. Click in the “Application used” field
7. Hit the “End” key to put the cursor at the end of the command.
8. Put a space and type in “%1″ (With the quotes.)
9. Uncheck “Use DDE.”
10. Click “OK.”

If a /dde exists in the “Application used” line, delete it.

That’s it . . . Oh and, by the way, Windows sucks.