Excel tries to open all files

[George]

This morning I installed Office 2007 on my pc. When I try and open any excel
file, It begins to open up every office file in my drive. I have uninstalled
and reinstalled three times, and also tried the repair choice on the
installation. All the other office products work fine. Any ideas?

 

[Gary''s Student]

You need to do 2 things:

1. make sure there are no un-wanted files in your XLSTART folder
2. Tools > Options > General make sure at startup you are not trying to open
many files

 

[George]

I checked the XLStart folder the only thing in it is a file called
GWXL97.XLA. Can I assume that this file should be there?

Thanks for the help

 

[Nick Hodge]

That's a GroupWise integration add-in and no it shouldn't be there, try just
moving it and see if it works...if not put it back (Awful add-in, disables
the close button and all sorts)

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
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[George]

Got rid of the Groupwise add-in, and it didn't do anything. I did find the
solution, though.

The was a setting in the advanced options under the general heading that
asked about opening all files. For some reason this was set to one of my
mapped network drives. I deleted that setting, and now it works great.

Thanks for your two replies, they got me going in the right direction.

 

[Nick Hodge]

George

Please don't put the GroupWise thing back on, it is likely that that
re-directed the entry to a network drive, after all that's what NetWare is

--
HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
(e-mail address removed)
web: www.nickhodge.co.uk
blog: www.nickhodge.co.uk/blog/

FREE UK OFFICE USER GROUP MEETING, MS READING, 27th APRIL 2007
www.officeusergroup.co.uk