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Support and Feedback / Re: Excel focus

« on: July 24, 2016, 22:49:45 »

Or you can configure your own filetype setup in MC for .xls files so MC is launching excel instead of windows.

I set that up, but if Excel is already open, MC opens another instance of Excel, and then warns me that PERSONAL.XLS is already in use.

Adjusting the command line parameters and DDE instructions does not seem to change that.

ForegroundLockTimeout does not work either.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Excel focus

« on: July 24, 2016, 18:35:20 »

That is a shame.  Windows Explorer and Free Commander both open Excel files OK, so MC must be doing *something* slightly different.

Thanks anyway.

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Support and Feedback / Excel focus

« on: July 24, 2016, 15:29:01 »

This is a really nice program, but there is a little niggle that is stopping it completely taking over from Windows Explorer.

When I try to open a file in Excel directly from MC, whether using the keyboard or mouse, it opens the file, BUT, either Excel stays in the background without focus, or Excel comes to the front but does not have focus (so it is not responsive to the keyboard or mouse).  MC does not do this with other file types such as Word or PDFs, which suggests that it is an issue with Excel, but Windows Explorer and one other similar program that I tried do not have this issue at all.

I open dozens of Excel files every day, so unfortunately this is a bit of a deal breaker.

Hopefully someone can help?  I am using Windows 7 Pro and Excel 2003, if it matters.

Thank you