Excel documents will open excel with blank window

When opening any excel document it will only bring up the excel window. To open the document I will have to goto file -> open.

I am using Office 2013 on windows 7 64bit

Only started happening the other day. What could be causing this?

The default application to open up .xls & .xlsx files is "EXCEL (DESKTOP)"

Solution 1:

Not sure exactly what is causing this. Could be a corrupted file or an update changed something. I found the following procedure on the Microsoft TechNet forum. Give it a try.

1. Go to Control Panel
2. Choose Uninstall Program in Program and Features
3. Highlight your version of Microsoft Office
4. Click change button on the top
5. A pop up window will show up, select Quick Repair

If that doesn't work, check out this support article. You didn't mention any error messages, but maybe the Hot Fix will resolve it.

Solution 2:

If the page is a blank grey screen, but the document size is still appropriate for the file you were working on:

Click the View Tab Click Unhide Select the document Click OK

Solution 3:

As per my comments, try pressing CTRL + F10 to see if this then shows the document

Click the Excel file, load up the empty Excel document and go to View -> Full Screen to see if then shows (Escape to exit). If it works, close and restart the same way and it should be OK again.

With Excel closed, click the 'start' button and in the search box, type

excel /unregserver

Close Excel.

Then, again, click start and type

excel /regserver

This should restore defaults.

Solution 4:

Sometimes if you open the excel embedded in another app eg outlook and then try to open excel nothing loads, you see a blank excel.

For this scenario open the task manager and you may see one ore more Excel32.exe. Terminate all of them and reopen the document. It worked for me.