Excel Running Wild After Update

[Jeff Fread]

I ran the Office update via Auto Update. Word and Powerpoint seem fine
but Excel attemtps to open every compatible file (and a few that
aren't) when I start it up. After it overdoses on files it fails and
closes. Any ideas on what to do other than reverting to an older
version, pre-update?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Wild guess:

Look in Applications:Microsoft Office 2004:Office:Startup:Excel: . Are there
a bunch of random files in there? I think Excel would try to open anything
in there on launch.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Look in Applications:Microsoft Office 2004:Office:Startup:Excel: . Are there
a bunch of random files in there? I think Excel would try to open anything
in there on launch.

If not there, XL will also attempt to open all the files in the
alternate startup folder, if you've set one in Preferences/General.

 

[Jeff Fread]

Terrific! I had to remove all of the files from my alternate startup
folder in order to confuse Excel so that it couldn't find any files to
open. Then I simply deleted the alternate startup folder from
Preferences/General. I'm back in business.

Thanks!