Chip Pearson has a bunch of techniques that deal with start up errors at:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/StartupErrors.htm

If Nick's answer didn't fix the problem.



Panta wrote:

when a user is logged in and opens an excel file from his C drive, the file
hangs and does not open.

when I log is as a user with admin rights and open the same file, it opens
without a problem.

could this be a profile issue?

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Dave Peterson