Excel 2000 tries to open unrecognizable file on startup

[1 Just Jeff]

Hi,

For the last couple of weeks, when I first open Excel I get a
Microsoft Excel Error pop-up window that says "This file is not in a
recognizable format....".

I am uncertain what file it is trying to open, but when I click "cancel" it
opens books1.xls. Which I usually ignore and go into "open file" and pick my
excel file.

Any idea what is going on?

Win98
Excel 2000

 

[Nick Hodge]

Jeff

I suspect one of two things

1) Excel opens all files in it xlStart folder. Search for this and remove
anything without an .xls, xlt extension

2) If you go to Tools>Options...>General. There is an entry in alternate
start-up location. (Generally there should be nothing here)

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
(e-mail address removed)

 

[1 Just Jeff]

Hi Nick,

Thanks, that was it. I found this file (PDFMaker.xla) in the xlStart folder.
Means Adobe PDFMaker was placed there. I moved it to a backup file location,
but I imagine if and when I use Excel to make a PDF file occurs, there will
be a problem. Would you say?

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Thanks - Jeff

 

[1 Just Jeff]

And............ I also had an entry in the alternate start-up location to a
non- xls folder - so I deleted that entry.......and all is well! thanks,
Jeff








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[Gord Dibben]

Jeff

Place the PDFMaker.xla in your Office\Library folder so's it will be available
through Tools>Add-ins if you need to use it.

Gord Dibben XL2002

 

[1 Just Jeff]

Gord,

Wonderful - thank you for adding that. I'll do so.