Good Morn Dave,
Went to both Excel help sites and still have the problem.

When I click on the Excel Desktop icon, Excel opens and the following
popup errors appear immediately :
'Files\Microsoft.xls' could not be found. Check the spelling of the
file name, and verify that the file location is correct.
If you are trying to open the file from your list of most recently used
files on the file menu, make sure that the file has not been renamed,
moved, or deleted.

The second popup wording is the very same except "Microsoft.xls" is
replaced with "Excel.xls".

Hope this helps

Rgds
Syl


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