Sometimes one of these works:

Tools|Options|General|Ignore other applications (uncheck it)

--- or ---

Close Excel and
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /unregserver
then
Windows Start Button|Run
excel /regserver

The /unregserver & /regserver stuff resets the windows registry to excel's
factory defaults.

MxlPltx wrote:

Excel 2003 is obviously complaining about some file named "C:\Documents and
Settings\mxlpltx\My Documents\xxx.xls" that isn't in quotes but I can't seem
to find out where it's getting the filename. It complains even if I start
Excel from the START menu. I have only one computer that does this.

Interestingly, the second file it wants is named "c:\documents and
settings\mxlpltx\Application Data\Microsoft\AddIns\and.xls" instead of
"c:\and.xls"

My real question is: how do I stop it? Is it possible to find the reference
and delete it? Should I re-install? If I re-install do I have to uninstall
first?

Mxl

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Dave Peterson