Excel 97 start up problem

[sgreenwood]

I've encountered a minor problem recently when starting Excel 97. After opening Excel but before the "blank" worksheet appears I recieve an error message. I believe it's just sort of an informational error (a window pops up with an exclamation point in a yellow triangle?) The window title bar contains "Microsoft Visual Basic" and the entire error message consists of "file not found" along with two buttons - "ok" and "help".

Of course my first step was to try the help. It really didn't lead me anywhere. It just states that a call was made to a file that doesn't exist. I had figured that much out...but I have NO idea what file is being called.

I have no autorun macros set up.

It isn't a huge problem because all I have to do is press "ok" and loading continues just fine. It's really just an irritation that I would like to fix.

Has anyone ever ran into this before? Any suggestions on how to trace the problem?

Any insight would be graeatly appreciated.

Thanks very much.

 

[FAM]

If you cant figure out what it is quickly, i would recommend re-installing excel rather than wasting loads of time.

 

[Pcfred]

You might want to try to search and delete the Personal.xls file.