Greetings,
I'm having an issue opening .xlt files from Windows explorer on 3 laptops. 2 of them are freshly built with Windows 7. All of them have/had the Click-to-run version on them. When I double click the file in Explorer, Excel opens and gives me the error “’Filename.xlt’ cannot be accessed. The file may be corrupted, located on a server that is not responding, or read-only.” It has a retry and a cancel button. If Iclick retry, the same dialog pops up. Once I hit cancel, I am presented with a spreadsheet that has headers and labels but no data. When I open Excel first, then click File, Open, the report loads perfectly with data and everything.
Here are the things I have tried:
- Uninstalled Office 2010 Click to Run version and installed Office 2010 MSI version
- In Excel Trust Center options, fully enabled ActiveX, Macros.
- In Excel Trust Center options, fully disabled Protected mode and File Block settings.
- Unchecked "ignore other applications that use DDE" in Excel Advanced settings.
- Ran excel.exe /unregserver, followed by excel.exe /regserver
- Manually associated .xlt files with Excel.exe
- Repaired Office 2010
- Completely reinstalled Office 2010
- Fiddled with the registry .xlt association settings.
Still doesn't work. The files are definitely not corrupt since Excel loads them just fine when I click File, Open in Excel. Renaming the spreadsheets to .xls is not a good option because these are reports coming from a website for users of a database. I don't want to tell them to rename every report they receive since it could be 20 in one day.
I've googled the crap out of this and nobody knows the answer. It shouldn't be so difficult to open a spreadsheet. Can anyone help? Thank you.