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  #1  
Old June 10th, 2004, 06:26 PM
DG
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Default Change in opening Excel??

Would really like to know what I did and how to correct
it...??

When I open Excel now, it opens, but not to a new book,
no to any book. It use to open to a new book. Not sure
what I did, but have looked for a setup for this and
can't find one. Any help would be appreciated.

DG
  #2  
Old June 11th, 2004, 02:46 AM
Dave Peterson
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Default Change in opening Excel??

One way to stop excel from opening with a new book visible is to change the
shortcut that you use to start excel.

If you check your shortcut (rightclick on it and select properties), look to see
if there's a "/e" (w/o the quotes) at the end of the Target box.



DG wrote:

Would really like to know what I did and how to correct
it...??

When I open Excel now, it opens, but not to a new book,
no to any book. It use to open to a new book. Not sure
what I did, but have looked for a setup for this and
can't find one. Any help would be appreciated.

DG


--

Dave Peterson

  #3  
Old June 11th, 2004, 06:03 PM
DG
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Default Change in opening Excel??

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the response.

I looked in the Properties of my desktop icon as you
suggest...that's where I normally start Excel from.
Under the "Shortcut" tab the "Target" box is greyed out
with the following in it..."MicroSoft Office 2000
Premium" (w/o the quotes). No "/e" there or in any of
the other options.

What next?

Don


-----Original Message-----
One way to stop excel from opening with a new book

visible is to change the
shortcut that you use to start excel.

If you check your shortcut (rightclick on it and select

properties), look to see
if there's a "/e" (w/o the quotes) at the end of the

Target box.



DG wrote:

Would really like to know what I did and how to correct
it...??

When I open Excel now, it opens, but not to a new book,
no to any book. It use to open to a new book. Not

sure
what I did, but have looked for a setup for this and
can't find one. Any help would be appreciated.

DG


--

Dave Peterson

.

  #4  
Old June 12th, 2004, 01:06 AM
Dave Peterson
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Default Change in opening Excel??

Next guess...

Check to see if there's something in your XLStart folder. Maybe there's a
workbook that doesn't belong. Try moving everything out of there (with excel
closed) and then restart excel to test.



DG wrote:

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the response.

I looked in the Properties of my desktop icon as you
suggest...that's where I normally start Excel from.
Under the "Shortcut" tab the "Target" box is greyed out
with the following in it..."MicroSoft Office 2000
Premium" (w/o the quotes). No "/e" there or in any of
the other options.

What next?

Don

-----Original Message-----
One way to stop excel from opening with a new book

visible is to change the
shortcut that you use to start excel.

If you check your shortcut (rightclick on it and select

properties), look to see
if there's a "/e" (w/o the quotes) at the end of the

Target box.



DG wrote:

Would really like to know what I did and how to correct
it...??

When I open Excel now, it opens, but not to a new book,
no to any book. It use to open to a new book. Not

sure
what I did, but have looked for a setup for this and
can't find one. Any help would be appreciated.

DG


--

Dave Peterson

.


--

Dave Peterson

  #5  
Old June 12th, 2004, 01:33 AM
Gord Dibben
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Default Change in opening Excel??

DG

Go to StartSettingsFolderOptionsFile Types. Scroll down to MS Excel
Worksheet. Then if running Win98 OS Edit select "Open" and Edit.

If using WinXP OS you would scroll down to .XLS then "Advanced"OpenEdit.

In Command line the path should be similar to this....

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE\EXCEL.EXE" /e (delete the sp/e if
you want Book1 to open.

You must have the double quotes.

Below have "use DDE" checked and this in the DDE message box....[open("%1")]

Application should read "Excel"(no quotes)

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:06:27 -0500, Dave Peterson wrote:

Next guess...

Check to see if there's something in your XLStart folder. Maybe there's a
workbook that doesn't belong. Try moving everything out of there (with excel
closed) and then restart excel to test.



DG wrote:

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the response.

I looked in the Properties of my desktop icon as you
suggest...that's where I normally start Excel from.
Under the "Shortcut" tab the "Target" box is greyed out
with the following in it..."MicroSoft Office 2000
Premium" (w/o the quotes). No "/e" there or in any of
the other options.

What next?

Don

-----Original Message-----
One way to stop excel from opening with a new book

visible is to change the
shortcut that you use to start excel.

If you check your shortcut (rightclick on it and select

properties), look to see
if there's a "/e" (w/o the quotes) at the end of the

Target box.



DG wrote:

Would really like to know what I did and how to correct
it...??

When I open Excel now, it opens, but not to a new book,
no to any book. It use to open to a new book. Not

sure
what I did, but have looked for a setup for this and
can't find one. Any help would be appreciated.

DG

--

Dave Peterson

.


  #6  
Old June 12th, 2004, 09:57 PM
DG
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Default Change in opening Excel??

XLStart folder is empty. Was nothing in there.....

Sure wish I knew what happened to this program.

DG

-----Original Message-----
Next guess...

Check to see if there's something in your XLStart

folder. Maybe there's a
workbook that doesn't belong. Try moving everything out

of there (with excel
closed) and then restart excel to test.



DG wrote:

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the response.

I looked in the Properties of my desktop icon as you
suggest...that's where I normally start Excel from.
Under the "Shortcut" tab the "Target" box is greyed out
with the following in it..."MicroSoft Office 2000
Premium" (w/o the quotes). No "/e" there or in any of
the other options.

What next?

Don

-----Original Message-----
One way to stop excel from opening with a new book

visible is to change the
shortcut that you use to start excel.

If you check your shortcut (rightclick on it and

select
properties), look to see
if there's a "/e" (w/o the quotes) at the end of the

Target box.



DG wrote:

Would really like to know what I did and how to

correct
it...??

When I open Excel now, it opens, but not to a new

book,
no to any book. It use to open to a new book. Not

sure
what I did, but have looked for a setup for this and
can't find one. Any help would be appreciated.

DG

--

Dave Peterson

.


--

Dave Peterson

.

  #7  
Old June 12th, 2004, 10:02 PM
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Default Change in opening Excel??

Hi Gord,

Thanks for the input but I've looked everywhere for the
sequence you quoted and can't locate a "Settings" option
from the "Start" button. (I assume you're referring to
the Start button on the left of the task bar.)
Have had a couple of others look at this with your
instructions and we're really in the dark here.

Guess I need a primer on this. I'm using XP and
Excel2000. If you don't mind, could you walk me through
this one more time....cause I'm sure missing something.

DG


-----Original Message-----
DG

Go to StartSettingsFolderOptionsFile Types. Scroll

down to MS Excel
Worksheet. Then if running Win98 OS Edit select "Open"

and Edit.

If using WinXP OS you would scroll down to .XLS

then "Advanced"OpenEdit.

In Command line the path should be similar to this....

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE\EXCEL.EXE" /e

(delete the sp/e if
you want Book1 to open.

You must have the double quotes.

Below have "use DDE" checked and this in the DDE message

box....[open("%1")]

Application should read "Excel"(no quotes)

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:06:27 -0500, Dave Peterson

wrote:

Next guess...

Check to see if there's something in your XLStart

folder. Maybe there's a
workbook that doesn't belong. Try moving everything

out of there (with excel
closed) and then restart excel to test.



DG wrote:

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the response.

I looked in the Properties of my desktop icon as you
suggest...that's where I normally start Excel from.
Under the "Shortcut" tab the "Target" box is greyed

out
with the following in it..."MicroSoft Office 2000
Premium" (w/o the quotes). No "/e" there or in any of
the other options.

What next?

Don

-----Original Message-----
One way to stop excel from opening with a new book
visible is to change the
shortcut that you use to start excel.

If you check your shortcut (rightclick on it and

select
properties), look to see
if there's a "/e" (w/o the quotes) at the end of the
Target box.



DG wrote:

Would really like to know what I did and how to

correct
it...??

When I open Excel now, it opens, but not to a new

book,
no to any book. It use to open to a new book. Not
sure
what I did, but have looked for a setup for this

and
can't find one. Any help would be appreciated.

DG

--

Dave Peterson

.


.

  #8  
Old June 12th, 2004, 11:01 PM
Dave Peterson
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Default Change in opening Excel??

One more...

If you upgraded through older versions of excel, you may have more than one
XLStart folder.

You may want to use
Windows start button|search|
and search for XLStart (make sure you search through hidden folders and for
hidden files).



DG wrote:

XLStart folder is empty. Was nothing in there.....

Sure wish I knew what happened to this program.

DG

-----Original Message-----
Next guess...

Check to see if there's something in your XLStart

folder. Maybe there's a
workbook that doesn't belong. Try moving everything out

of there (with excel
closed) and then restart excel to test.



DG wrote:

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the response.

I looked in the Properties of my desktop icon as you
suggest...that's where I normally start Excel from.
Under the "Shortcut" tab the "Target" box is greyed out
with the following in it..."MicroSoft Office 2000
Premium" (w/o the quotes). No "/e" there or in any of
the other options.

What next?

Don

-----Original Message-----
One way to stop excel from opening with a new book
visible is to change the
shortcut that you use to start excel.

If you check your shortcut (rightclick on it and

select
properties), look to see
if there's a "/e" (w/o the quotes) at the end of the
Target box.



DG wrote:

Would really like to know what I did and how to

correct
it...??

When I open Excel now, it opens, but not to a new

book,
no to any book. It use to open to a new book. Not
sure
what I did, but have looked for a setup for this and
can't find one. Any help would be appreciated.

DG

--

Dave Peterson

.


--

Dave Peterson

.


--

Dave Peterson

  #9  
Old June 13th, 2004, 12:00 AM
DG
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Default Change in opening Excel??

BINGO!!!.....Although I knew this wasn't an upgrade of
Excel, I did the search as you suggested anyway. Turned
up four XLStart folders....one for each user..but the
others don't actually use this machine and those were
empty. However, mine had a personal.xls file in it,
along with four back-up copies. I've been playing with
and trying to learn some Macro code. After deleting all
the back-up copies, Excel now opens with a new Workbook,
as it use to.

Thanks Dave for the help and the time spent on this.
Have a great weekend, or what's left of it.

DG


-----Original Message-----
One more...

If you upgraded through older versions of excel, you may

have more than one
XLStart folder.

You may want to use
Windows start button|search|
and search for XLStart (make sure you search through

hidden folders and for
hidden files).



DG wrote:

XLStart folder is empty. Was nothing in there.....

Sure wish I knew what happened to this program.

DG

-----Original Message-----
Next guess...

Check to see if there's something in your XLStart

folder. Maybe there's a
workbook that doesn't belong. Try moving everything

out
of there (with excel
closed) and then restart excel to test.



DG wrote:

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the response.

I looked in the Properties of my desktop icon as you
suggest...that's where I normally start Excel from.
Under the "Shortcut" tab the "Target" box is greyed

out
with the following in it..."MicroSoft Office 2000
Premium" (w/o the quotes). No "/e" there or in any

of
the other options.

What next?

Don

-----Original Message-----
One way to stop excel from opening with a new book
visible is to change the
shortcut that you use to start excel.

If you check your shortcut (rightclick on it and

select
properties), look to see
if there's a "/e" (w/o the quotes) at the end of

the
Target box.



DG wrote:

Would really like to know what I did and how to

correct
it...??

When I open Excel now, it opens, but not to a new

book,
no to any book. It use to open to a new book.

Not
sure
what I did, but have looked for a setup for this

and
can't find one. Any help would be appreciated.

DG

--

Dave Peterson

.


--

Dave Peterson

.


--

Dave Peterson

.

  #10  
Old June 13th, 2004, 12:33 AM
Gord Dibben
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Default Change in opening Excel??

Dave

Why are you looking for files in the XLSTART folder?

OP is concerned because NO book at all opens when he starts Excel.

Gord

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:01:21 -0500, Dave Peterson wrote:

One more...

If you upgraded through older versions of excel, you may have more than one
XLStart folder.

You may want to use
Windows start button|search|
and search for XLStart (make sure you search through hidden folders and for
hidden files).



DG wrote:

XLStart folder is empty. Was nothing in there.....

Sure wish I knew what happened to this program.

DG

-----Original Message-----
Next guess...

Check to see if there's something in your XLStart

folder. Maybe there's a
workbook that doesn't belong. Try moving everything out

of there (with excel
closed) and then restart excel to test.



DG wrote:

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the response.

I looked in the Properties of my desktop icon as you
suggest...that's where I normally start Excel from.
Under the "Shortcut" tab the "Target" box is greyed out
with the following in it..."MicroSoft Office 2000
Premium" (w/o the quotes). No "/e" there or in any of
the other options.

What next?

Don

-----Original Message-----
One way to stop excel from opening with a new book
visible is to change the
shortcut that you use to start excel.

If you check your shortcut (rightclick on it and

select
properties), look to see
if there's a "/e" (w/o the quotes) at the end of the
Target box.



DG wrote:

Would really like to know what I did and how to

correct
it...??

When I open Excel now, it opens, but not to a new

book,
no to any book. It use to open to a new book. Not
sure
what I did, but have looked for a setup for this and
can't find one. Any help would be appreciated.

DG

--

Dave Peterson

.


--

Dave Peterson

.


 




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