38 comments on article "Excel 2007: "Windows Cannot Find " -- but you KNOW the file exists!"

*EXCEL*LENT POSTING!!! I've been spinning my wheels on this and had resigned to reinstalling Excel 2007. Tried the trick and it worked!! Really obscure problem - not too many people seem to experience it.

One NOTE. To get to the ignore DDE check box

Office Perl -> Excel Options (Bottom of the pull menu) -> Click Advanced (this is the missing step), then follow rest of directions as above.

Finally the solution!! Thanks.

Thanks for finding this - I thought I was going insane! Now I just have to figure out why the setting changed on me, since it was working fine before today...

Thanx!!! i was also going insane about that problem. I was not on my installaton from start, but suddenly appeared.

Thanx for the solution, I kept searched and found the official explanation: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211494

Which explains the solution - but not how this setting suddenly changes ...

Kind regards
Bo

thanks to whoever put this page on the net, ive been having this problem for a while and couldnt figure it out, was going to bring my pc back to future shop but decided to come online, thanks!!!

DUDE YOU LIFESAVER. Been looking for this for ages.....

I was also experiencing a similar problem with Office 2003. Going to Excel/Tools/Options/General tab and unchecking "Ignore other applications" was the fix. Thanks for the info. I've been searching for this solution for at least 6 months.

I've used Open office during the time that this bug started the 'file not found'. Any relation to that?

Thanks for the fix. It works fine now.

I like the windows office better than open office,but one day i will try it.

It felt strange when I saw this problem. And one more Microsoft funny bugs.

I started getting this problem, after I installed Office Live Addon. Not sure if that is related.

Thanks for the solution

My excel suddenly through up this problem one day for no reason.
I just couldn't work when I had to copy each spreadsheet from email, open excel then open the file. It was driving me mad. You are an absolute life saver. Many thanks.

Thanks for the solution!

Thanks for the solution!

Thanks for the solution. It helped me a lot!!!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211494

I had similar problem but yes thanks to you it did work for me too.

Thank you.

I am always reassured that if I have a problem, someone else has had the same problem before me and the solution will be out there somewhere. This is a classic example.

Thanks you again for finding the solution and solving my problem.

thanks G, that was awesome, i spent an hour on permissions & going through advanced/trust settings & this was the ticket, thanks, D

Timothy - Thank You for this Post - helped out largely!

Ron

Im happy for you guys, but it still does't work for me...

same problem...thanks for the solution!!!
Lorenzo

the solution helped! thanks!

i love you.

Have had the same problem since day one, finally fixed it! thanks for the info

I love this kind of posts... My gratitudes go to you, sir.

thanks, you made my day

Had this problem for a long time until I decided to check the net today......thanks a million..

Thanks a lot. This was one information which I longed to find for myself. Had suffered from similar issues.
Nice sharing.

Thanks for sharing this. So what changed since yesterday when the #$#$ thing worked? oh, well... that's microsoft for you.

Thank goodness for your solution, this was getting very frustrating.

God bless you! You are a lifesaver!

Click Start, and then click Run.
In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
In Registry Editor, locate the following subkey in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office
Expand the subkey that corresponds to the earlier version of Excel, and then click the Excel subkey.
Right-click the Excel subkey, and then click Rename.
Type OldExcel, and then press ENTER.
and enjoy

It's work now. thank you for the solution!!

Thanks for this post! I tried the regedit but had no Excel subkey under a prior version. The Excel Options worked!

You have no idea how relieved I am thanks to your wonderful post. I have my business and tax files on Excel. I came back to my computer and notice it had rebooted. However, I could not open any Excel files on my system, not even from the thumb drive. I had assumed that my Excel was corrupted and being the program was installed at the retailer years ago (Vista) I have no idea where the backup nor the file with the access code are and was thinking I would have to go out and buy a new version of Excel. I was totally freaking out; then I saw your post and had noticed that I had the same problem, I could open these files from within Excel (I wouldn't have even thought of that) but not from Windows Explorer. So following you intructions, everything works and you have made my day. I can't thank you enough!ff

Thank you, Very clear and it worked, GOD BLESS

Thanks - worked