Excel 2007 bug?

[Perry]

Vista/Office Ultimate
VS2005/VSTO2005 SE

Maybe someone else has already reported this but:

Note: this happens incidently upon clean (no addin interference) Excel 2007
start up.
Excel starts up with a practically blank screen.
The only things visible are:
Page layout buttons and the zoom slider (right bottom controls) and all
positioned on top(!)
of the screen. The rest of the screen is entirely blank.

Additionally, when trying to shut Excel down using ALT+F4, the Vista
shutdown dialog appears.
In this case, Excel needs to be shut down by closing the instance from the
taskbar also because the
application Min/Max/Close buttons aren't available (or visible)

As stated, this happens appr. once every 10 (clean) start ups.

Has anyone experienced this? If so, is MS already informed of this?

--
Krgrds,
Perry

System:
Vista/Office Ultimate
VS2005/VSTO2005 SE

 

[Keith]

I don't have your software setup, but just the Alt-F4 issue immediately
makes me think you have a sticky control key or something similar (err... I
guess Ctrl-Alt-Del is what would bring up the shutdown dialog). Ctrl takes
my Excel into safe mode, although it does give me a warning while loading.

If you have an extra keyboard available? It would be interesting to know if
you still see the same symptoms once the possibility of sticky keys is
eliminated...

Please keep us posted, if you do find a way to replicate this on other
machines, or if you determine the actual root cause.
Thanks,
Keith

 

[Perry]

I don't have your software setup, but just the Alt-F4 issue immediately

makes me think you have a sticky control key or something similar (err... I
guess Ctrl-Alt-Del is what would bring up the shutdown dialog). Ctrl takes

Application simply doesn't have focus, system is prompted for Shutdown
(because of ALT+F4), if no other windows are active.

No, problem can be re-produced as follows:
- Close all other programs
- Open Windows Explorer
- Startup Excel 2007 either from Programs under start, or fire "Excel.exe"
from the Start | Searchbox

The problem (possible bug) appears to be limited to Windows Explorer being
opened when starting up Excel.
If Windows Explorer isn't open, I can't re-produce this fenomenon.

--
Krgrds,
Perry

System:
Vista/Office Ultimate
VS2005/VSTO2005 SE

 

[mastiha]

I have the same issue.