One note: doing the thing with ignoring other applications that use DDE
makes NO Excel files open EVER. I had to go back in and uncheck that to even
make Excel open files again.

"shawn" wrote in message
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I am having this same problem. We have Office 2007 installed on a few
computers and I'm the only one with this problem. I am running a full
version of Office 2007 and Outlook 2003.

When I double click an Excel file it opens to a blank screen.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no luck. Problem still
there.

I have tried what people suggested here.. one said go into settings,
general, and checking ignore other applications that use DDE, that didn't
work. Another person suggested holding down CTRL while starting Excel and
going into safe mode.. what do I do after that? I closed Excel tried to
open a file and the problem is still there.