On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 16:18:11 GMT, George
wrote:

(Excel 2002, SP3; winXP, SP2)

This problem just started. When I open a particular .xls, my firewall
reports that Excel is trying to access the internet. ...

Oops: I had created a signature for my macros, and the Internet access
started with the version where I did that. So, apparently not
anything bad. (It seemed like I needed the signature, to allow my
macros to run with a 'high' security setting. But, I could just be
confused about that, too.)

George