G'day there Dave,

Maybe running Rob Bovey's code cleaner would help:

I have a copy of Rob's code cleaner here at the moment. I've used
it previously to good effect. The problem now is that I can't open Excel
to use it.

If it happens on multiple workbooks, you may want to read Chip's page and play
around with the *.xlb file (the toolbar file can get corrupt and do bad things).

If it only happens on one workbook, maybe that workbook is corrupted and it's
time to rebuild it.

It doesn't happen on any workbook. It happens whenever I try to
open Excel with nothing in it except the 3-sheet workbook it starts up
with.

(Although, I would have guessed that File|Open (that workbook) would have caused
the same problem.)

It probably would, but I can't get that far to find out. The
application never opens to give me a File menu.

Thanks for your assistance. I don't even know where to start
looking. Any suggestions are more than welcome.


See ya
--
Ken McLennan
Qld, Australia