See KB article http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q307410

The PDFMaker.xla and maybe PDFMaker.dot are stored in your Office\XLSTART folder
or in the Excel\XLSTART folder.

Any files in these folders will open with Excel.

You must remove them from the XLSTART folder.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 09:13:13 -0700 (PDT), DMD31842
wrote:

When I open Excel I get this error message: "Compile Error in Hidden
Mode AutoExecNew" and get this one when I close Excel: " Compile Error
in Hidden Mode. DistMon". How do I resolve this? Thanks, David