Windows 10: When trying to open an excel spreadsheet .xls from a desktop shortcut, my user gets the...

When trying to open an excel spreadsheet .xls from a desktop shortcut, my user gets the following message. "Windows is searching for Annual Meeting Template. To locate the file yourself, click the browse" and when the user searches for the file that way, it does not lead them anywhere. No other user seems to have this issue.

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Unable to open Excel for Mac spreadsheets on my HTC HD2

Hi Susan,

Have you tried saving the Excel spreadsheet in a different format? Instead of saving as XLSX, try saving in the older "Excel 97-2004 Workbook (.xls)" format. The steps below explain how to save the document in a different format:

• Create a file, or open the file that you want to save.
• On the File menu, click Save As.
• In the Save As box, type a name for the file.
• On the Format drop-down menu, choose Excel 97-2004 Workbook (.xls).

While you're trying that, I'm going to move your thread into the Windows Phone forums and see if anyone there can help us out. I'm not quite sure what formats WinMo 6.5 supports and there aren't too many things we can try on the Excel
side.

Let me know if changing the format helps!

 

Excel spreadsheet

Some of my old excel spreadsheets show an icon XLS and I can't work on them or access the information they contain, when I try to open them in my recently installed 365 office.

 

Open Excel files using Office 97 on Windows 10

Office 97 works well on Windows 10. The shortcut to EXCEL is configured with Compatibility > Settings > Run this program as an administrator set. You do not need to set Compatibility mode.

While Excel itself works fine, when I double-click any .XLS file in Windows Explorer, the Excel application is launched with an empty screen (or sometimes with a new, empty workbook). The .XLS file is NOT loaded.

There are two workarounds:

WORKAROUND 1: Open the file manually from within Excel. This is what I do for most spreadsheets and its not a major chore.

WORKAROUND 2: This only works for spreadsheets you open regularly.

• Create a shortcut to the spreadsheet
  
• Right-click the shortcut and choose Properties from the context menu
  
• Leave "Start in" pointing to the folder where the .XLS resides
  
• Change "Target" to "" "\"
  
• Example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office\EXCEL.EXE" "C:\Important\MyContacts.xls"
  

Is there any way to resolve this issue?