Microsoft Outlook 2007 cannot open an Excel file attachment

Asked By Kate Carlton 220 points N/A Posted on - 05/30/2011

Hi,

I will have to specify my problem straight to the point. I have a problem with all of my Excel attachments whenever I am opening it in Microsoft Outlook 2007. My laptop is in Vista SP2. I can open Excel application fine. I can also open any attachments, but not Excel. This suddenly happened and no configurations was changed in my personal computer.

I have attempted to repair Microsoft Office and even reinstalled it because repair did not solve it. Unfortunately, reinstallation of Office will not resolve it either. I have also tried to focus on Excel. From Excel Options, I have changed the settings in Advanced, I have cleared the option, “Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)” and restarted Excel.

Techyv people, I need help.

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Answered By Kattyrine 0 points N/A #111299

Microsoft Outlook 2007 cannot open an Excel file attachment

Hi there Kathyrine,

Here is a solution you can try to fix your problem on Excel files not opening on Outlook 2007.

1. Go to My Computer.
2. In My Computer, click Tools then go to Folder Options.
3. Go ahead and select the File Types tab.
4. Under File Types, look for .xls/.xlsx extension and highlight it.
5. Look for the Advanced button and click it.
6. Look for Open and highlight it.
7. Select Edit.
8. In the Application used to perform action: Put your cursor and scroll down to the end and then type in "%1" with quotations. Uncheck the use DDE box.

Another solution could be

• Clean the folder C:Documents and Settings%user%Local SettingsTemporary Internet FilesContent.OutlookXXXXXXXX where XXXXXXXX are random numbers. Just delete all of the.
• Go to Internet Explorer, go to Tools then Delete Browsing History, Delete All then check the Delete Files and Settings Stored By AddOns.

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Answered By Hoting Gracia 5 points N/A #111300

Microsoft Outlook 2007 cannot open an Excel file attachment

 

Hello Kate the problem you are facing comes under some type of bug in which it is described as an IOException that is generally occurred due to the reason that causes the error while opening the document.

 

The reason may be that the file you are loading may be damaged due to some reasons so its better to check once and also if possible try to convert it to other format to check whether the full data is present or any data is missing.

 

Check also with the application whether it is newer version or the old version and if is older one it's better to upgrade to new version so that additional features will be added to the reader.

 

The problem may be with missing files of adobe reader you are using so its better to uninstall completely and then you re-install it with a fresh copy of application so that error may not be rise again with ease of loading the files in which you are willing to access.

 

Thank You.

 

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