It turned out that Groupwise was conflicting with it. I followed the
directions in this article and it fixed the problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;260199

"goplayoutside" wrote:

Acutally the close button, the big X on the upper right side, does close
Excel, I just need to click it twice. While this really isn't a problem, It
is annoying.

Is there anything I can do to fix this.

Thanks