"Paul" wrote:

Downloaded more MS patches, problem went away. Issue closed

"Paul" wrote:

Upgraded to 2007 student version, obtained all udpates, ran a series of tests
found on MS site. PPT starts fine, everytime Excel is started, it goes
thru a configuration for about 1 minute. Runs fine after that. How to
not reconfigure very startup?

Hope I'm doing this reply right;
Paul did you ever find the fix for this problem I would like to know.
Thanks