Solved Unable to open Excel files

joefish · Sep 21, 2023

I have a Windows 11 machine that is suddenly unable to open excel files when clicking on them directly. I'm using Office 2013. The error i get is: "The operating system is not presently configured to run this application". Strangely if I open excel, and then open files from there, it works. Excel is the default program for xlsx files and there is only 1 version of excel installed.

Thanks in advance.

wiganken · Sep 21, 2023

Others are having the same issue. See link for answer: -

Office "The operating system is not presently configured to run this application" - Microsoft Q&A

Hello, we have such problem that some computers suddenly stopped opening excel (version 15.0.5589.1001) documents directly, the programme opens but is empty without any document. If you open a document in the program by pointing to it from the computer,…

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