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Image Files opening in Excel
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Image Files opening in Excel
Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Posted by curator
(1 messages posted)
I am running Windows 98SE and for some reason my image files (JPEGs and TIFFs) are
bveing poened as Excel files, which, of course, renders them unreadable. I have no
idea why it is defaulting to this, nor how to fix it.
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re: Image Files opening in Excel
Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Posted by dhm
(990 messages posted)
I'm going to assume that nothing has changed the extension.
Try this:
- Find such a .JPG in a folder.
- Shift+Right click on it.
- Select Open with..
- Change the association from Excel to whatever you use to show images.
Or go here:
And install Irfanview 3.97. (Version 3.99 will not install in Win98 or Win2K).
Irfanview has an user friendly (and reversible!) system for associating graphics
extensions with itself. It is a near universal graphics viewer and does all the
most common crops and corrections.
It can even handle extension problems. I knew it could handle GIFs and JPGs that
have been given the wrong exension so I just tested it (ver 3.98, however). I deleted
the ".jpg" from the name of a file. I started Irfanview and told it to open the
file anyway. It recognized that it was actually a JPEG and asked if I wanted the
name corrected, then it displayed it.
On Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:33 pm, curator wrote:
>I am running Windows 98SE and for some reason my image files (JPEGs and TIFFs) are
>bveing poened as Excel files, which, of course, renders them unreadable. I have
no
>idea why it is defaulting to this, nor how to fix it.
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re: Image Files opening in Excel
Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Posted by John D.
(1005 messages posted)
well i converted over to Linux last year but i still remember this:
1) hi-lite some jpeg file in explorer
2) then hold down the shift key and right-click it, and choose "Open With"
3) select some graphics program (Mspaint, whatever) from the list AND check box "Always
open this type of file with this program"
4) Hit OK and the jpeg should open
5) repeat for any other file types
On Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:33 pm, curator wrote:
>I am running Windows 98SE and for some reason my image files (JPEGs and TIFFs) are
>bveing poened as Excel files, which, of course, renders them unreadable. I have
no
>idea why it is defaulting to this, nor how to fix it.
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re: Image Files opening in Excel
Friday, May 25, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Posted by gewg_
(3925 messages posted)
|[...](JPEGs and TIFFs) are [being opened] as Excel files
| curator
How to Change a File Association:
Click a *.JPEG file to highlight it.
Hold down the Shift key and right-click the file.
Select Open with.
Tick the Always Use This Program... box.
Choose whatever program you want to have open this. (Probably your browser.)
Click OK.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
TIFFs are not directly supported by any browser I know of.
I use IrfanView to see them.
In IfranView, under Options; Set file associations it is easy.
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