Excel loading bogus files on startup. Why?

[Mike Echo]

Excel (2000) has recently started doing something weird. When I click on
the icon to start the programme, it automatically loads a file from the
root of C: (one time it was a name.log file and now it has started doing
it with a small .jpg I have in C: temporarily.

My xlstart directory is clean, so why is it doing this very annoying
thing?

Any ideas?

 

[Chip Pearson]

Mike,

Go to the Tools menu, choose Options, then the General tab.
There, ensure that the "Alternate Startup Directory" setting is
empty.


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Cordially,
Chip Pearson
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Pearson Software Consulting, LLC
www.cpearson.com

 

[Mike Echo]

Mike,

Go to the Tools menu, choose Options, then the General tab.
There, ensure that the "Alternate Startup Directory" setting is
empty.

You are a legend, Chip! Thanks a million! That has been bugging me for
ages and I never found (or noticed) that option.

I assumed any startup would have been handled by xlstart and didn't
count on an alternate choice being located elsewhere.