Problem with embedded excel spreadsheet in Word document.

I am having trouble with a word document that has an embedded excel spreadsheet in it. If you double click on the spreadsheet to edit it, the following error message appears:
"The program used to create this object is Excel. That program is not installed on your computer. To edit this object, you must install a program that can open the object."
I know that Excel is installed on the PC. The PC is running Windows XP SP3 x86 and Office Professional Plus 2007. I have tried editing the spreadsheet on a PC running Windows 7
Pro x64 with the same version of office and it works just fine. I cannot find any differences in the setting between the two so I do not know why it works one place but not the other.
Any ideas?

If you double click on an Excel file in Windows Explorer, does Excel startup? If not, right click on such a File and used the Open with item to set Excel as the default program for opening such files.
If you need to do that, it may also overcome the issue with the embedded worksheet.
Hope this helps.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP,
dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org
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I am having trouble with a word document that has an embedded excel spreadsheet in it. If you double click on the spreadsheet to edit it, the following error message appears:
"The program used to create this object is Excel. That program is not installed on your computer. To edit this object, you must install a program that can open the object."
I know that Excel is installed on the PC. The PC is running Windows XP SP3 x86 and Office Professional Plus 2007. I have tried editing the spreadsheet on a PC running Windows 7 Pro x64 with the same version of office and it works just fine.
I cannot find any differences in the setting between the two so I do not know why it works one place but not the other.
Any ideas?
Doug Robbins - Word MVP dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org

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