Windows 10: Problem with Excel files downloaded from Google Drive

I have this issue with spreadsheet docs downloaded from Google Drive to Excel. I get the Excel files that are impossible to sort or use Find/Replace. The Sort line is grayed out and the Find/Replace cannot find anything

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Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Appreciate your interest in using Windows 10.

I suggest you to uninstall the application and download the setup files or install directly from Internet explorer by following the steps below:

• Open Internet explorer and type ‘www.google.com’ in the address bar.
• To will get a notification on the right side of the browser to download and install Google Chrome.
• Click on the notification and follow the prompts to download and install the Google Chrome application.

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Problems reading PDFs and Excel files downloaded from SkyDrive on Lumia 900.

Initially a few months ago, I successfully downloaded some PDFs and Excel files to my Lumia 900 from SkyDrive and they opened and worked on the phone, then that stopped working and I now get the following messages when I try to open the files in my Lumia:

For PDFs - displays message "The document cannot be opened because it is not a valid pdf file."

For Excel files - "Excel does not recognize the file format "CD Collection" (for my Excel file with a list of my CDs)."

So the files do download to the phone, they just won't open.
Any suggestions for a remedy?

I have recently upgraded to 7.8 but that has not made any difference.

 

excel file causes instability in "windows explorer"

When I open an excel file by double clicking on the name in windows explorer, the file opens OK but at the same

time, the explorer file list jumps up and down as it lists and de-lists the

excel temp file. It is very distracting. I can close the explorer window or

simply change to another folder. It occurs only on one of my computers and only on some excel files

It happens only with excel files and not with word or acrobat

Any suggestions where to look for the problem. We've reinstalled Office 10 and reset my windows profile. nothing helped so far.