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Excel Opens every document when started

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by rmcnaught

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When one of my users starts Excel it opens every Office 2000, or attempts to open them all, that are stored in a shared directory on our network. Any idea why this is happening. The machine has been scanned for viruses. The OS is NT 4.0 SP 6. Has anyone seen this before?

Richard McNaught
Network Administrator
Heid Music Company, Inc.

Rmcnaught@Heidmusic.com

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by dklippert

Look at Tools>Options, General tab. Make sure that nothing is entered in the Alternate startup file location.
(You also might check XLStart to make sure it's OK)

by krkosiorek

I have seen a problem very similar to this before. The only difference was that it was occuring on a Windows 2000 machine. The problem was with that specific users profile.

Log in as a different user (different profile) to see if the problem exists for all users. If not, it is probably a problem with that one persons profile.

If possible, delete that persons profile. Make sure you delete it by right-clicking my computer, choosing properties, and then user profiles. Don't just delete the folder under C:\WINNT\Profiles for that user.

That should fix the problem.

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