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Excel opens files by itself 1

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lasselindstrom

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Aug 19, 2000
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When Excel97 is opened it also opens a lot of files from the hard disk. The operating system is Win NT 4.0 Workstation. Who knows why this happens?
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I do! I do!

Hit Start-Find-Files or Folders and type in:

xlstart

Make sure you're searching your entire C, including subfolders, and hit enter. Double-click the folder(s) that come up and get the files out of there! Move them someplace else--Excel opens all files in the XLSTART directory on launch. If that doesn't work, go to Tools-Options and see what the alternate start directory is. Either delete the entry there OR move the files out of that directory as well.


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