Element not found error opening Excel or Word files

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'Element not found' error opening Excel or Word files

A user reported that Excel and Word documents would no longer open and instead gave the error Element not found error opening Excel or Word files.

Re-Installing Office had no effect

The fix is due to faulty file associations.

You need to set the URL:ms-excel to your installed version of Excel or Word.

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