I don't have your software setup, but just the Alt-F4 issue immediately
makes me think you have a sticky control key or something similar (err... I
guess Ctrl-Alt-Del is what would bring up the shutdown dialog). Ctrl takes
my Excel into safe mode, although it does give me a warning while loading.

If you have an extra keyboard available? It would be interesting to know if
you still see the same symptoms once the possibility of sticky keys is
eliminated...

Please keep us posted, if you do find a way to replicate this on other
machines, or if you determine the actual root cause.
Thanks,
Keith

"Gary Keramidas" <GKeramidasATmsn.com wrote in message
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never saw that an i used both during the betas, not exclusively, i used xp
and o2k3 most of the time.

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Gary


"Perry" wrote in message
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Vista/Office Ultimate
VS2005/VSTO2005 SE

Maybe someone else has already reported this but:

Note: this happens incidently upon clean (no addin interference) Excel
2007 start up.
Excel starts up with a practically blank screen.
The only things visible a
Page layout buttons and the zoom slider (right bottom controls) and all
positioned on top(!)
of the screen. The rest of the screen is entirely blank.

Additionally, when trying to shut Excel down using ALT+F4, the Vista
shutdown dialog appears.
In this case, Excel needs to be shut down by closing the instance from
the taskbar also because the
application Min/Max/Close buttons aren't available (or visible)

As stated, this happens appr. once every 10 (clean) start ups.

Has anyone experienced this? If so, is MS already informed of this?

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Krgrds,
Perry

System:
Vista/Office Ultimate
VS2005/VSTO2005 SE