My work includes ole development of excel classes, the registry contains both versions of excel (5.0 and 8.0) , i am having problem with the classes because i am developing the application which includes excel8.0 for lotus4.6, but lotus is accessingclasses of xl5 only. i tried reinstalling xl8.0 onto my system from the network, but still i could not make lotus to recognize the new classes on the registry . Any suggestions...
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Please don't pummel this non programmer if this is a stupid suggestion, but have you tried to reassociate the .xls extension with Excel 8.0 in My Computer? Just pull up My computer, go to View>options, and then the file type tab, then find the .xls extension and repoint it to your excel 8.0 installation.
I would tackle your problem in the following order:.
1) Since it seems that Excel 8.0 is what you need, I would first de-install Excel 5.0, and see if that solves your problem. 2) If that leaves your system confused, I would de-install 8.0 as well. It sounds like you are familiar with using the registry, so then I would save the registry first (there are a lot of shareware utilitys that will help you do this), and then using the find feature of the registry editor, I would delete all references to "EXCEL", "XL5", and "XLS" that remain after the de-install. 3) Then I would run sysedit and clean up SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI for all references to Excel, specifically the associations. In Win95 and 98, these are re-loaded into the registry on every startup, so you don't want your system registry "polluted" again after all the work you did in this step. 4) Then with a TOTALLY clean system, as if you had just installed windows, I would install Excel 8.0 only, and this should create the correct associati
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