all the time.

once it finishes, go into tools=General tab and remove any entry in
Alternate Startup File Location

or go to the windows start menu and select Run

enter

Excel.exe /s

which opens excel in safe mode. Then make the change, and close.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Dave B" wrote in message
...
Here's a crazy problem I've never come across before. When I open Excel,
it
goes crazy and opens every file in the My Documents folder at once.
Anyone
ever heard of this before? There seems to be a default workbook that is
blank except for in Cell A1 it says ".ShellClassInfo". Not sure if the
ShellClassInfo thing is related or just a red herring.