Excel - Opens ~20 spreadsheets filled with garbage

[cjernigan]

MS-Office 2000
Windows 2000


I have an Excel user that when a spreadsheet is opened, ~20 spreadsheets open, 19 of which are junk ... the final one is a "New Excel Spreadsheet". The junk pages appear to be Excel's attempt to open a Pivot Table Tutorial. Along the way there are two to three "unrecogzined format" errors. This happens when opening any existing spreadsheet or when creating a new one. The same thing happens under a different profile. I have uninstalled / reinstalled Office 2000. Also, I have scanned for bugs with an up to date anti-virus product, which found nothing.

Any suggestions?

 

[carrr]

Do a FIND on the pc for a file with the extension .xlb
Change the extension to .old and retry Excel.
Any difference?

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - Malaclypse the Younger

 

[cjernigan]

Carr ... I failed to mention that I did that already, after searching through the tek-tips, I thought that I would give it a try. No luck.

 

[KenWright]

Try the following:-

Tools / Options / General

'At Startup Open all Files in..'

Clear it

Regards
Ken...........

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[cjernigan]

Follow up:

I ended up doing a search for one of the files that Excel was trying to open. It along with ~20 files, were located in the XLstart folder. So, Excel was attempting to open .gif files, .htm files, etc, causing trouble. I emptied the XLStart folder, which resolved the problem. The user in question had no idea how those files ended up there ... ;-)


Anyhow, thanks for your help!