Excel X Freeze

[Harvey Waxman]

I have a corrupt file which freezes Excel (X) and I force quit. When I re-open
Excel by clicking a different file it opens that file but then it attempts to
open the corrupt file as well, requiring a force quit again.

Is there some way to prevent this behavior? I have trashed the offending file
but it seems that there should be a better solution.

Thanks

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Is there some way to prevent this behavior? I have trashed the
offending file but it seems that there should be a better solution.

XL's trying to open the AutoRecover version. To bypass this, start XL
with the shift key down, then close XL to delete any AutoRecover files.

 

[Harvey Waxman]

XL's trying to open the AutoRecover version. To bypass this, start XL
with the shift key down, then close XL to delete any AutoRecover files.

Many thanks. I must have missed that in the 'help' files.