Excel Running Wild After Update

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Jeff Fread - 23 Mar 2006 18:04 GMT

I ran the Office update via Auto Update. Word and Powerpoint seem fine
but Excel attemtps to open every compatible file (and a few that
aren't) when I start it up. After it overdoses on files it fails and
closes. Any ideas on what to do other than reverting to an older
version, pre-update?

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Daiya Mitchell - 23 Mar 2006 21:50 GMT

Wild guess:

Look in Applications:Microsoft Office 2004:Office:Startup:Excel: . Are there
a bunch of random files in there? I think Excel would try to open anything
in there on launch.

> I ran the Office update via Auto Update. Word and Powerpoint seem fine
> but Excel attemtps to open every compatible file (and a few that
> aren't) when I start it up. After it overdoses on files it fails and
> closes. Any ideas on what to do other than reverting to an older
> version, pre-update?

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JE McGimpsey - 23 Mar 2006 22:09 GMT

> Look in Applications:Microsoft Office 2004:Office:Startup:Excel: . Are there
> a bunch of random files in there? I think Excel would try to open anything
> in there on launch.

If not there, XL will also attempt to open all the files in the
alternate startup folder, if you've set one in Preferences/General.

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Jeff Fread - 24 Mar 2006 02:11 GMT

Terrific! I had to remove all of the files from my alternate startup
folder in order to confuse Excel so that it couldn't find any files to
open. Then I simply deleted the alternate startup folder from
Preferences/General. I'm back in business.

Thanks!

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Excel Running Wild After Update