If your Excel files are opening in Notepad on Windows PC, here's how you can reset the settings to make .xls, .xlsx, etc files open in Excel.

Click "Microsoft Excel" from the Recommended Programs section and click "OK" to reset the registered default program to Excel for that file type. Repeat for each file type you wish to reset.

Use these attributes to narrow your search by file type, date, size, author and so on. Click any of the resulting files and press "Ctrl-A" to select all search results.

If you cannot open an Excel file and see Excel cannot open the file because the file format or extension is not valid error, see this post.

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I want to list the file name, type and size. <BR> So far I have been copying the filename by clicking on the file, pressing F2, then copying the text and then pasting it into excel.