Hello,
just searched forum but don't find an answer...
I configured a menu which opens misc files (excel, word-docs, etc.) for easy access.
Problem: If I already opened e.g. a Excel-file via menubutton and want to open a second one, the screen jumps only to Excel without opening the file. Any idea?!
Another question: Can I open such files also with "Favorites"?
Thanks,
Sasa
What do your buttons run? Can you show us an example one? If the buttons run just the file that you're trying to open then they should behave the same as double-clicking the file in question. (In other words, it's often better not to run Excel, or whatever, explicitly with the filename as a parameter, but to just run the filename by itself.)
If you go into Customize mode and drag a file/document to a toolbar or menu then you should get a button suitable for launching it. If doing that still only works if Excel isn't already running then it sounds like a bug in Excel. (You're not trying to open the same file twice, are you? Excel can't do that.)
There is a way to add files to the Favorites list but it's not useful for what you're trying to do since when you select them you're taken to their directory with them selected, but they're not launched.
Just defined following:
Function "D:\Data\Excel Doc.xls" > Works
Function "D:\Data\Excel Doc 2.xls" > Works only if Excel is not already open and a file loaded before.
Try inserting the full path to the Excel program before the file name. e.g.
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" "D:\Data\Excel Doc.xls"
This seems odd.
Does the same thing happen if you double-click the two files instead of the toolbar/menu items which points to them?
With just the filename, and no Excel.exe, the buttons should behave the same as double-clicking the files.
Are you putting quotes around any filepaths with spaces in? That's always worth doing, just in case, though it probably isn't the cause of what we're seeing here.
The method John mentioned works (using path before), BUT:
This loads excel a second time instead of just opening a new sheet/window in the already existing excel. I don't open too much files and have 2GB mem so it's ok 
If I select two or more excel-files and open them via context menu, excel is only loaded once and the files will all be opened. DblClick also works the same. Hm....
By the way:
Do you know how to open (multiple) files and (multiple) dirs in new Mediaplayer 11 via context menu? I get this only work with Winamp. Thanks.
Sasa