Hi,

This isn't as easy as you may think.

I'm running XL2003 on Windows XP home and have a strange problem. When
I start XL it opens with a file named chart 1 gif 1.gif. I have looked
in the XLSTART folder but there's nothing in there, I do not have
anything in the folder to open files from upon starting XL either. I
have searched my hard drives for a file named as such without luck.
While testing I tried saving the file as chart 1 gif 1.guf to see if I
could find out where it was stored unsuccessfully, so now I get both
of those files opening each time I start XL, but their is no record of
either file anywhere on my system. I also tried copying a file to the
XLSTART folder to see how that worked and sure enough it also starts
when I open XL, that gives me three files that open each time I start
XL. This last file can be seen in the XLSTART folder and when I
deleted it, it no longer starts up with XL. It's as if the other two
files are in the XLSTART folder, at least they act the same way, but
somehow they're invisible to searches and viewing.

Anyone have any ideas how I can delete these 'ghost' files from
opening with XL?

Thanks,

Norm