"Jim Rech" wrote

A time honored stalling device used by tech support desks everywhere.
Effective .1% of the time. You see, almost all problems like this are
caused user settings or files that reinstalling does not touch. (Hopefully
now that I said this, reinstalling will help<g)

I have no idea why you're having this problem but fyi there are two xlstart
folders on your machine so be sure to check both. One is under the Excel
application folder and the other is under your user folder under Documents
and Settings (Windows XP). Also there's the folder designated in Excel
Options to open files from at startup.

Yeah I looked in both. We'll see if reinstall does the trick but I know what
you mean.