Excel opens to a blank screen

You double-click on an Excel file, but Excel doesn't open the file. Instead, it opens a blank screen with the buttons grayed out. Your screen may look similar to this:

Solution

Trying performing an Online Repair of Office by following the steps in Repair an Office application.

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